Poland-Germany: A Better Defeat

9th June 2008

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Most Polish football fans were quick to describe Sunday’s defeat by Germany as inevitable, and thanks to Silesian-born Lukas Podolski it certainly looked that way. But there’s also a different atmosphere – on a better day it might even pass for optimism – about Polish fans this year. Leo Beenhakker has certainly wrought a change in the football mindset here, at least for a moment – and it would be hard to find anyone who wasn’t looking forward to Thursday’s game against Austria.

Most Polish football fans were quick to describe Sunday’s defeat by Germany as inevitable, and thanks to Silesian-born Lukas Podolski it certainly looked that way. But there’s also a different atm ...

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