Another day…

You can hear it, haunting the Bialo-czerwoni in a whisper far far colder than a proper beer: The Germans are coming, the Germans are coming…

Just a note or two before i dig into another day of educating my little girl in the wonders of football, thanks to Angola, Holland, Iran, Mexico, Portugal, Serbia, Montenegro and Total Club Manager (go Ross County!)…

Team Polska captain Jacek “The Cooler King” Bak got his name on espn.com today, speaking of what was translated as a “Great Escape.” That’s right sports fans: He’s a Steve McQueen fan! (Okay, that’s expostulation…)

Going on to state the obvious, Bak declared that “We are just going to have to try and escape from this situation. We have to win [against Germany] if we want to qualify. We will certainly have to do better than we did tonight.”

Michal Zewlakow cites mistakes and bad luck as problems in the Ecuador match. But hey, Os Davis said, if you need to whip off a couple of goals in the last eight minutes of play, luck ain’t gonna cut it.

Under the scintillating headline “Lehmann declared fit for Poland clash” (Huh … i didn’t know he was a hooligan), espn.com also informed that Jens Lehmann and Michael “Never Mind The” Ballack are fit for the Wednesday match. Now where are those voodoo dolls…?

We need this win, Mr. Beezlebub, sir…we need it real bad.