Episode 9: Ball Boys and Striker Girls

Irish Dave is back with me for our weekly review. You would hope that I will be most excited with our World Cup qualifying wins over Lithuania and Malta(held last night after our Sunday morning recording), but then you remember: It's only Lithuania and Malta...........and we almost dropped points in the first one..............and our 36-year old star striker bailed us out which we will deeply miss when his career is done.

Whilst Lewandowski is a Ballon d'Or contender again thanks to his exploits at Barcelona, another Polish striker based in the home of Gaudi might actually have a better chance. Ewa Pajor is averaging a goal per match this season and her national team is going to their first Euros ever in July. Dave will talk about his ideas of further growing the Women's Football boom: Have doubleheaders every week so that we might further prefer the matinee women's match compared to the men's inevitable 0-0 in the evening.

After all it's the same format that Tennis uses during its Grand Slams, which brings me neatly to Iga Świątek almost killing the ball boy during her semifinal loss in Indian Wells. In her defense though, almost every famous Tennis player vented out their anger in public at least once. Even Tim Henman, which I found remarkable because he has the most boring demeanour of any player ever.

You might not know this but for me the most wonderful time of the year last about four months, because the NHL playoffs start just after our national championship in Ice Hockey had already been decided. I feel like I have the necessity of supporting dethroned champions Unia Oświęcim simply because they are the closest pro sports team to my hometown which makes us the desert of the Polish sporting map. All we have in Wadowice is Kremówka pie and monasteries. However, I would much rather have Poland getting promoted up to the World Championships top flight than club success, because I would once more love to experience what me and Dave saw in Ostrava last year.