Hookers and hooligans

2nd April 2011

The green shoots of recovery in the Polish national football team were nipped cruelly in the bud this week, following two uninspiring friendlies, allegations of players holding bunga bunga parties and outbreaks of hooliganism. After a largely disastrous 2010, Poland managed narrow wins against Moldova and Norway and went into the games against Lithuania and Greece feeling optimistic, but nothing went right.

It began on Friday in Kaunas, where Poland dominated everything but the scoreline – losing 2-0 to Lithuania. The match was played to a backdrop of riot police and flares, as Polish hooligans fought the forces of law and order, and each other, demolishing the stadium in the process.
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