From the Retz to the Rubble: Hopping Over the Austrian Border
Through the mill - the beautiful Retz windmill One of many advantages to living in Brno is being within range of three or four national borders. The likes of Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Austria, and even sometimes Germany are no more than a few hours away. With that in mind, and a fairly limited football schedule given the international break, I decided to take the hop over the border at Znojmo to third tier Retz of Austria. It always struck me as worth visiting given its proximity to Brno in terms of Austrian clubs outside of Vienna - as far as I could tell it was among the closest, with Austrian clubs between Brno and Vienna seemingly few and far between. Following a promotion from the fourth tier last season, Retz are enduring a fairly wretched time of things, with just the one win to their name all season, and also coming off the back of five successive defeats for the second time this season already. Their opponents Sportunion Mauer from Vienna are already 13 points bett...