Celtic's number one spoke to the upmarket Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita this week about the break-up of his marriage and how it led to on-field as well as off-field problems and admitted that he carried the stresses and strains of his personal life onto the pitch during important matches. New Celtic boss Mowbray said yesterday that Artur should work hard to regain the form that saw him recognised as the finest keeper in Europe in 2008 but despite the high-profile blunders at club and international level last season Boruc insists that last year really wasn't that different to previous seasons. 
"I don't accept all this talk that I'm in bad form." he said. "Last season I made five serious mistakes which is roughly the same as I did the year before. But no one said it was my fault then because those errors went unpunished. A lot comes down to luck and sometimes your luck runs out. It shows how quickly things can change in the life of a footballer."
"My form in the match in Belfast and the earlier game in Bratislava (3-2 to Northern Ireland and 2 - 1 to Slovakia) was related to my personal situation." he told Rzeczpospolita. "In Belfast I wasn't scared of their fans taunting, I like pressure, I like when the fans are screaming at me. The influence on my performances in Slovakia and Northern Ireland games were not fans - but my personal situation. It is not possible to forget about it, switch yourself off. Never mind if you are a worker in a factory or you are goalkeeper playing in front of thousands of people every week. If you have personal problems, it will affect you at work."
His personal situation, of course, revolves around the break-up of his marriage to teenage sweetheart Kazia whom he married in 2001. "I got married to Kazia when I was 21." said the former Legia Warsaw player. "At that time I was sure I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. But things change and so do people and now I've been left in a complete mess. Kazia's whole family thinks I'm insane, that I'm an alcoholic and so on. They constantly try to provoke me."
"When I go to visit my son," he continued. "And I want to take him for a walk, my mother-in-law goes with us, walking a few feet behind us to make sure I don't kidnap him. And once when I got so angry with the whole situation and started shouting, my son Alex was frightened by me and started crying. It was torture. That was just before Poland's game with Northern Ireland. How could I play well feeling like that? But I didn't want to give up, I wanted to help the national team."
"My wife is trying to ruin my life." said Boruc. "She is a psychologist so she knows how to get into my head. For example she sent me a text saying I will never see Alex again. She thinks she's suffered so much through all this and now her only goal is trying to make my life hell. She promised me a divorce and then denied it."
"Polish law works like this." he said. "If a couple has a small child and the wife says she still loves her husband, they will not give you a divorce. I have given Kasia the lot. I gave her five flats in Warsaw that I bought as an investment. It really makes life difficult. I am so stressed by it all."
"Am I an alcoholic?" said Boruc. "No, I am not. I don't drink every day, I have a couple of beers when I am permitted by the club. Yes, I also smoke, but not a lot. I also smoked a few cigarettes during Euro 2008, but nobody cared then because I was in good shape and I was playing well."