UEFA Euro 2012 Poland-Ukraine: Germans Glowing with Anticipation

[Valmy]

There are New York Giant fans in the Ukraine?  Horrifying.

[Sheilbh]

Well be happy you arent in the Ukraine. With the EC coming to town the media have published some rather ugly stories from there.

It's giving the football family chance to practice PR about human rights abuses before the Russian and Qatari World Cups

[Cecil]

Well be happy you arent in the Ukraine. With the EC coming to town the media have published some rather ugly stories from there.

It's giving the football family chance to practice PR about human rights abuses before the Russian and Qatari World Cups

Gods....I had totally forgotten about that. I suppose there are no limits to the lows these organizations are willing to sink.

[Martinus]

While Ukraine is not a pretty place, I wouldn't necessarily consider thugs beating each other up to be a human rights abuse - unless there is something about this picture I do not get.

[Richard Hakluyt]

It certainly depicts an abuse of fashion.......and I'm a scruffy middle-aged Englishman, it must be truly appalling for the more fashionable folk 

[Cecil]

While Ukraine is not a pretty place, I wouldn't necessarily consider thugs beating each other up to be a human rights abuse - unless there is something about this picture I do not get.

Well you might have heard that the gay pride march in Kiev got cancelled due to the police couldnt guarantee their safety. One of the leading gay rights organizations front man Svyatoslav Sheremet was going to tell the rest of the people going to march that whole deal was cancelled and they better pack up and go home. He never got there. This happened in front of the Reuters camera.

[Syt]

I look forward to the inevitable mud slinging between Geman BILD "Newspaper" and Polish FAKT . . . which are incidently owned by the same publisher.

Honi soit qui mal y pense.

[Martinus]

While Ukraine is not a pretty place, I wouldn't necessarily consider thugs beating each other up to be a human rights abuse - unless there is something about this picture I do not get.

Well you might have heard that the gay pride march in Kiev got cancelled due to the police couldnt guarantee their safety. One of the leading gay rights organizations front man Svyatoslav Sheremet was going to tell the rest of the people going to march that whole deal was cancelled and they better pack up and go home. He never got there. This happened in front of the Reuters camera.

Oh I didn't know that. 

[Martinus]

But if this happened in front of the Reuters camera, what were the Reuters cameramen doing? Surely a few people could beat off 3 skinny thugs???

[Richard Hakluyt]

Indeed, if that is the actual incident then I reckon I could take the guy in yellow. I'd assumed this was some random pic from the arse-end of town.

[Cecil]

But if this happened in front of the Reuters camera, what were the Reuters cameramen doing? Surely a few people could beat off 3 skinny thugs???

Supposedly there were 15 guys. I guess not everyone made it into the picture. Also there were several hundred more nearby.

[Sheilbh]

But if this happened in front of the Reuters camera, what were the Reuters cameramen doing? Surely a few people could beat off 3 skinny thugs???

Press don't intervene.

[Duque de Bragança]

I look forward to the inevitable mud slinging between Geman BILD "Newspaper" and Polish FAKT . . . which are incidently owned by the same publisher.

Honni soit qui mal y pense.

Fixed it for you

[Pedrito]

Well be happy you arent in the Ukraine. With the EC coming to town the media have published some rather ugly stories from there.

It's giving the football family chance to practice PR about human rights abuses before the Russian and Qatari World Cups

qatar world cup 

L.

[FunkMonk]

I'm picking Germany to win it and rooting against the English.

How is England worth rooting against?

Personally I'm rooting against John Terry.

I enjoy watching the teeth-gnashing from the English press when their brave lads "underperform." Good entertainment for this 'Murrican.