I WAS SITTING on a flight from Frankfurt to Warsaw on June 3rd, or maybe the 4th, reading the Lufthansa Magasin I’d picked up from the pocket in front of me. The article that first caught my attention, naturally, was one on Poland and their preparations for the Euro Cup. I was headed to Warsaw,...
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The Barnstormer phone started ringing at about 4am yesterday. I ignored it as long as I could because of my fear of things that ring and communication, but by the 42nd ring, I crawled off the office futon and answered. It was Michelle. She was frightened. She was confused. She was more than a...
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Day 5 sees cans of worms opened and a rare surgical procedure to remove a foot from the mouth of a Polish mayor. Antonio Cassano’s statement that he hoped there were no gay players on the Italian national team opened the sport’s proverbial worm can Tuesday night. To Italy’s credit, coach Cesare Prandelli, openly...
Read more →REMEMBER THE TIME WAY BACK in September, 1939, when the Russians and the Nazis partitioned Poland like it was the last sausage on the pre-war BBQ? Poland sure does. It has a long memory of Russian forays onto its soil, though it has also dealt with Swedes and Ottomans in its long and colourfully...
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