Comments on: Poland Written Off By “Experts”.

By: AndreasGryphius

AndreasGryphius — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:03:24 +0000

To tomasz,

I wish the Poles had more than just one supporter in the world, really.

Posted from Germany.

By: tomasz

tomasz — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:47:39 +0000

Thanks for all the support. Generally, Poland has one of the best supporters in the world, you’ll see it this time (provided they get tickets). Some of you may remember our great fans from the last WC (the only Poles worth watching).
@anonymous
Poland is 90% catholic but only 40% go to church every sunday

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:55:45 +0000

ever since this, I have fallen in love with Poland: http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=afp-fbleuro2008polreligion&prov=afp&type=lgns

I mean, who can’t love a country like that?

By: AndreasGryphius

AndreasGryphius — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:03:20 +0000

London bookmakers have Germany as top favourite for the Cup.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:48:23 +0000

I’m pulling for you guys to beat Germany. I want Croatia and Poland through to the quarters.

By: nick

nick — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:18:09 +0000

this kind of stuff fucks me off. we will beat germany and then we’ll see whos laughing hahahahahahahahahahaha

By: disilluso

disilluso — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:05:04 +0000

sorry
…and expecially in many country says…
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…and expecially in MY country says…

By: disilluso

disilluso — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:03:04 +0000

I’m Italian but I’m even a Poland fan because I have some friends in this country.
The Gazzetta dello Sport fantasy game is a game made by some fool that has never watched a game of Poland and many other teams (for example they list Ebi as a midfielder and, in other teams, Afellay is listed as a defender and Kallstrom as a striker).
However I have to confirm your sensations: many journalists around the continent and expecially in many country says that Poland will be the worst team at this tournament.
IMHO it’s due to their passion for offensive play: all experts know that Leo is a defensive coach and they think that he will decrease the show in your games.
Obviously I disagree with the conception “football is mostly a show to sell” but sadly this is the most important thing for the press.
Finally I hope that your team and Croatia will eliminate Germany, it isn’t too difficult. Good luck!

By: Ian Rose

Ian Rose — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:42:11 +0000

Critical Culture is really hard on Boruc. “Wholly unpredictable”? He has made mistakes, but even the best keepers in the world can say that. He’s taken Celtic to the last 16 of the CL two years running, and done some fine stopping in both those runs. He’s one of the two or three guys I would want in my net for penalties (other being Van der Sar and Casillas). For their only comment about him to be “unpredictable” is unfairly harsh.

By: tomasz

tomasz — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:00:27 +0000

The pace that you write about is currently lacking in the Polish team. That was our problem in the last friendlies; we were able to keep the ball for large periods of time but we were unable to speed up the game or change its tempo with a more surprising play. But counter attack is in Polish blood so I’m sure that we’ll be dangerous in this aspect. I’m also putting my money on Russia to be the most organized team in the tournament.