When I was a little kid, the information that I could access about the world of football was pretty restricted. There was of course no internet, which meant the main form of gleaning knowledge about football was from Match magazine, Teletext and Clubcall. Indeed, Clubcall once got me into big trouble with my dad, as […]
Tag Archives: England
England’s team lines up for their first ever world cup game vs Chile in the 1950 World Cup in Brazil This post is a bit of a departure for the blog. Instead of Polish football I write here about Britain’s conflicted relationship with the game it created and how this was reflected in their attitude […]
Source: se.pl After watching Poland’s victory with San Marino tonight I came to realise that things for the national team are not as bad as everyone here is making out. Here follows a short attempt to break through the layers of negativity which seems to have developed around the national side since Friday’s loss to […]
So after all the farce of Tuesday night, all the splashing around, all the waiting, Poland-England eventually got under way at 5pm CET. In the circumstances, spectators in the stadium and at home experienced quite a decent football match, although supporters from the two sides came away with rather different impressions from the night, even […]
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 […]
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