In the first part of his Euro 2012 memories series, English writer and Warsaw resident David Ingham takes a look back at his best moment and how it all started Oh Kuba, is it really two years since that glorious summer? That was a great time for us both wasn’t it? You became a national […]
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A familiar, and rather comedic-looking, face has come back to the Polish football scene in the last couple of days, prompting much sneering and mickey-taking, however Zdzisław Kręcina (pictured above) is actually a much smarter operator than his appearance suggests. In another guest post on RightbankWarsaw, Mikołaj Wojciechowski profiles Kręcina and finds out there’s a […]
It’s a cold November day in 2011, a reporter strides across Wrocław’s spacious main square towards an unassuming young man wearing a light jacket. As the reporter approaches the man fiddles with his coat, it’s obviously a bit chilly. The journalist asks in Polish: ‘What do you think about Polish patriotism?’. A smile breaks out […]
Fans look on as Poland crashed out of the European Championships last year Photo: Banzaj.pl I sat down outside a Warsaw sports hall on a bright October day to eat some lunch. A Polish acquaintance joined me and we had a chat about the football tournament we were taking part in. After a while our […]
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 […]
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 […]
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