Warning to England fans about Polish police tactics in the Krakow Post.
"Polish police are going to come down on troublemakers like a bagfull of anvils and you don't want to be there when it happens. These lads' mums and dads rioted under Soviet machine guns - a few chairs thrown by beered up fans is not going to intimidate them."
Roll on the football and an end to scare mongering from all quarters.
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Dutch paper says it did happen. UEFA confirm protest but say it wasn't racist.
The Sun- "Euro stars taunted by racist mob in Krakow" well I guess it depends on how many you say a mob is, also "abuse from 500 supporters". Well according to the links above they say it was a handful out of 25,000 and that was coming from Dutch newspapers, the Dutch coach came out and said he did not hear it and that would be surprising if it was a 500 strong mob chanting racist abuse. They also make no mention as most others do that the reason the protest started was because Krakow was not picked.
Don't get me wrong racism is disgusting but to me what certain sections of our media is doing is wrong in the way they are reporting incidents such as these. Papers like The Sun thrive of creating an impression to its readers that all is wrong with the world and all people in certain countries are racists. From the reports I've read of the incident that isn't the case and I'm willing to be told otherwise but on this one I'm going to go with a Dutch newspaper who reported the incident rather than the Sun which has no doubt re-hashed the story by a journalist who in most likelihood wasn't even there.