The stop-start nature of Vasas’ season continues since my last blog entry. A couple of wins, a couple of draws and a continuing tendency to throw games away means Vasas remain stuck in sixth place in the NBii. They’re also more than a clear win behind Zalaegerszeg and Gyor in the two promotion places.
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It’s been a month since I’ve been to a Vasas game due to a combination of holidays and away games (I love you Nyíregyháza Spartacus, but I’m not travelling 142 miles to see you play), and things have been slowly grinding to a halt on the Vasas promotion train. A run of 4 straight draws has somehow not precipitated a massive slide down the table due to the unpredictable nature of NBII results, but the 8 goals shipped in those games is a worry.
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Due to a visit to Slovakia I’m going to absent myself from not one but TWO Vasas home games this week (the only midweek of the season – bah!). Thankfully they should be the only two I miss.
To fill in some more backstory about the club I’m following, I’d like to post this article by Alfie Potts Harmer of the ace In Bed With Maradona blog. You see Vasas were not always a struggling Second Division side, at one point they were all-conquering, winning the Hungarian League six times in the ’60s and – amazingly – going undefeated in TWENTY-FIVE YEARS of pre-season European tours.
Continue readingAs there’s no home game this week (and I’m in the UK), I was looking for something else to post, and came across this gem of a short read from Beyond The Last Man, an engrossing blog on all things 20th century football. Everything below the line is directly from this wonderful blog post by Craig McCracken.
Continue readingAlthough I was only planning to go to Vasas’ home games this year, there are a few local away games coming up and I couldn’t resist the chance to jump on the tram – metro – bus combo that leads to Budafok in the south-west of Budapest.
Continue readingThis was supposed to be the first game in SC Vasas’ newly-rebuilt Illovszky Rudolf Stadium but construction is behind schedule, so instead I head up to the venue of last season’s ignominies, the Szusza Ferenc Stadium. The ground (surrounded by industrial chimney stacks in the stereotypical way that lower league venues usually are) is in Újpest, the 4th District in the very north of the city.
Continue readingAlthough Vasas were hoping to be in their newly rebuilt Illovszky Rudolf Stadium this season, the news came out last month that they’d be remaining in Újpest for a while yet. Wandering over to the site it’s not difficult to see why. The place is nowhere near done yet.
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