On Wednesday evening a major international football event, the Europa League final, returns to Poland, nearly three years after Euro 2012 visited these shores. Much has changed in the intervening three years, especially in Poland’s neighbouring co-hosts Ukraine after the Maidan revolution and subsequent annexation of Crimea by Russia, and the ongoing conflict in the […]
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I answered some questions for the excellent French language website Footballski.fr which deals with football in Eastern Europe. I present the English version here – it was a chance for me to clarify my views on a number of different issues, the Polish FA, fan culture in Poland and the enigmatic Zbigniew Boniek. Read on for […]
It’s been a while since I posted. The Euros have gone, we’ve had the emotion and glory of the Olympics and the early summer has morphed into the nagging worries of mid-August as we start to notice the sun rising a bit later and the evenings start to come in. What happened in the rest […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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