irnbru Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Poland and Ukraine have been chosen to host the 2012 European Championships.Italy were widely expected to win the Uefa vote in Cardiff, with another joint bid from Croatia and Hungary also in the running. However, Italy's bid was overshadowed by last season's referee corruption scandal and their on-going problems with football-related crowd trouble. It will be the first time that either Poland or Ukraine have hosted a major football championship. Their bid team staged an impressive presentation on Tuesday, featuring Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko, Liverpool keeper Jerzy Dudek as well as boxer Vitali Klitschko, former Olympic champion Sergei Bubka and Ukraine president Victor Yushchenko. Games will be played in four Ukrainian cities (Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kiev and Lviv) and six Polish venues (Gdansk, Krakow, Poznan, Warsaw, Wroclaw and Chorzow). Link to comment
TheChimp Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 It'll be a fair journey between some of the games! Link to comment
Paulo Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Great news! I was hoping that they would get, didn't really fancy Italy or Hungary very much. Relatively cheap in both countries when you get over there too. Link to comment
The Proclaimer Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Relatively cheap in both countries when you get over there too. That'll surely change by the time the finals come around Edit: Also good that we'll get to invade Poland, the way they've invaded us! Link to comment
ZeroTolerance Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Relatively cheap in both countries when you get over there too. And a veritable totty feast Link to comment
hebrewdon Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Poland and Ukraine have been chosen to host the 2012 European Championships.Italy were widely expected to win the Uefa vote in Cardiff, with another joint bid from Croatia and Hungary also in the running. However, Italy's bid was overshadowed by last season's referee corruption scandal and their on-going problems with football-related crowd trouble. It will be the first time that either Poland or Ukraine have hosted a major football championship. Their bid team staged an impressive presentation on Tuesday, featuring Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko, Liverpool keeper Jerzy Dudek as well as boxer Vitali Klitschko, former Olympic champion Sergei Bubka and Ukraine president Victor Yushchenko. Games will be played in four Ukrainian cities (Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kiev and Lviv) and six Polish venues (Gdansk, Krakow, Poznan, Warsaw, Wroclaw and Chorzow). How fab an athlete was he Link to comment
hebrewdon Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 And a veritable totty feast Are the guys as nice as the girls Link to comment
10MenWent2Mow Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 are we all assuming that we will qualify like ? Link to comment
ZeroTolerance Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Are the guys as nice as the girls Sorry quine, unless you go for neanderthal look. Link to comment
Dynamo Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Poland and Ukraine have been chosen to host the 2012 European Championships Fight fight fight! Same goes for Italy though I suppose...... Link to comment
Jute Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 I was over in Ukraine for the Scotland game in October and find this decission unbelevieable. The main stadium in Kiev is supposedly one of the best in the country and it was a dump so do not want to think what the rest are like. All the grounds I have been to in Poland are sub standard as well. I suppose they do have 5 years to build new ones but cannot see where the money will come from in two countries that do not have the best of economies. They have serious crowd disorder problems in both Ukraine (as shown by the attacks on the Scotland fans on the Tuesday and Wednesday) and Poland as well. In Kiev the local police struggled to protect 3,000 travelling Scots god knows how they will cope with 10,000 English, Germans or Dutch who will be quite up for putting the locals back in their place. Just a pity that Scotland did not apply this time arround as would have be a cert to get it. Link to comment
10MenWent2Mow Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 All the poles in the UK will have to be drafted in to build the stadiums or maybe they'll just fund it by sending their wages back home. Seems a bizarre choice but obviously UEFA were suitably impressed by the bid and they must have plans to sort everything out by the time the championships come round or they wouldn't have put it there. It would reflect badly on UEFA if it ends up being a shambles so they will have been aware of that when making their decision. It might just work out well and they'll spend the money to sort out the problems that they have over there and we'll have a decent championship, hopefully with Scotland there, you never know, Russell might even be getting a game by then although David Weir will probably be captain. Link to comment
Guest CAPSLOCK Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 IF YOU THOUGHT THE EYE-TIES LIKE A BIT OF FOOTBALL VIOLENCE THEN WAIT TIL YOU GET A LOAD OF THE POLES. THEY LIKE A GANGf*ck OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE WHEN IT'S NOT EVEN A MATCHDAY. Link to comment
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