Tonight is the first of the semi-finals in Euro2012. There’s only three games left of what has been a superb tournament, a fact that’s getting me down a little. Articles have appeared in the Polish press over the last couple of days lamenting the fact that the finals are coming to a close. One compared […]
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Well it happened again. As one of my friends wrote on facebook, that’s the sixth time in my life that I’ve seen England lose at penalties. We all know the drill, relatively gallant performance, solid defending and at the end of it all a loss that brings us crashing to the ground. We wake up […]
So my hopes of a few days ago of a Germany-England semi-final in Warsaw have partly come true. Germany smashed the Greeks out of sight on Friday night in a dose of attacking football which has made them the team to beat at the tournament. Forget the tortuous passing of the Spanish, which makes half […]
I just thought I’d let you know how the tournament is progressing over here in Warsaw town. As a Reuters article quite rightly pointed out Poland seems to have gone a bit flat after their defeat last Saturday. There are less and less people watching games in the fanzone, and the Euros seem to have […]
So have the Poles recovered from the disappointment of Saturday night, when the Polish national team failed to make it to the quarter finals? It’s been a difficult process, a simple opening of Saturday’s papers which are still lying around, tells us a story of hope, excitement and belief, all of these are a distant […]
So Poland are out, the King is dead. A tournament that had promised so much, and had started so brightly has come to a close for the co-hosts in bitter disappointment and ignominy. The Poles weren’t able to get the win they needed against the Czechs to send them through to the quarter finals. Not […]
I went West in search of Euro2012 fun and frolics yesterday to the Western Polish city of Poznan, 300 kilometres to the West of Warsaw. I was going to watch Croatia play Italy in Poznan’s renovated city stadium where one of the giants of Polish football Lech Poznan play their games. I was anxious to […]
I’m still recovering today after what was, in my humble opinion, the game of the tournament so far. With so much riding on the match, Poland were able to put on a very fine performance, especially in the second half, to send their fans celebrating into the night. Yes it was a draw, but it […]
So today is the one that everyone here has been waiting for. Poland’s match against Russia, the same Russia which, along with Frederick the Great, drove the partition of Poland at the end of the 18th century which removed Poland from the map for over 100 years, the same Russia which Poland’s romantic tradition was […]
So I thought I’d give you some examples of how mental the country is going over the Euros. So join me on a little pictorial tour: 1)Euro, local Polish entrepreneur style Here we see a lady trying to make the most out of the Euros at my local supermarket a couple of miles away from […]
rightbankwarsaw.wordpress.com 