EURO 2020

[yuri malenkov]

First game goes Friday June 11.

10 of the 24 teams represent their own nation:

North Macedonia 26-0
Poland 26-0
Slovakia 26-0
Częstochowa 26-0
Hungary 26-0
Turkey 26-0
Croatia 26-0
Russia 26-0
Ukraine 25-1 ( a White/blue-eyed Brazilian Marlo Bonfim with half Ukrainian Heritage)
Italia 25-1 ( a Mestizo Brazilian Emerson Palmieri with half Italian Heritage)

 

[TheBigDawg]

Germany has 20 out of 26. 4 Africans. 2 Turks.

England has 17 out of 26. All African or mixed.

Belgium has 17 out of 26. 6 Africans. 2 mutts. 1 North African.

 

[Phall]

Finland has 23 out of 26 white players, one African, and two mulattoes with Finnish mothers.

Interesting that Turkey has not been bitten by the multiculturalism bug. They have a lot of foreign players in their club league.

 

[Don Wassall]

Good for the Croatians, show the decadent Whites of Western Europe that you won't be a part of their death cult!

England's opponents Croatia 'will NOT take a knee ahead of their Euro 2020 opener at Wembley on Sunday'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/s...head-opening-game-against-England-Sunday.html

 

[Bucky]

Go Croatia !

 

[TheBigDawg]

Netherlands has 16 out of 25. All african. With Donny Van de Beek injured they decided not to find a replacement. There is no chance this team does good imo.

 

[Rebajlo]

Here are the racial breakdowns of all 24 Euro 2020 (cough…) squads. Mulattos and part-blacks are simply listed as “black” - including England’s very white-looking Kieran Trippier, whose father is a Negro.

Each nation submitted a final squad of 26 players, with three exceptions: the Netherlands (25), Poland (25), and Spain (24). The managers of the Netherlands and Poland opted not to replace injured players, while Spain named a squad of only twenty-four.

GROUP A

ITALY: 25 Whites (including Brazilian import Jorginho); 1 black (Emerson)

SWITZERLAND: 10 Whites; 8 blacks (Kevin Mbabu, Manuel Akanji, Denis Zakaria, Breel Embolo, Yvon Mvogo, Djibril Sow, Edimilson Fernandes, Jordan Lotomba); 2 Bosnian Muslims (Haris Seferovic, Becir Omaragic); 3 Albanians (Granit Xhaka, Admir Mehmedi, Xherdan Shaqiri); 2 mestizos (Ruben Vargas, Ricardo Rodriguez); 1 Turk (Eray Comert)

TURKEY: 26 Turks (interestingly enough, six of those Turks were born outside of Turkey: Kenan Karaman, Hakan Calhanoglu, Kaan Ayhan – Germany; Orkun Kokcu, Halil Dervisoglu – Netherlands; Mert Muldur - Austria)

WALES: 23 Whites, 3 blacks (Tyler Roberts, Ethan Ampadu, Ben Cabango)

GROUP B

BELGIUM: 17 Whites; 8 blacks (Dedryck Boyata, Axel Witsel, Youri Tielemans, Romelu Lukaku, Jason Denayer, Christian Benteke, Michy Batshuayi, Jeremy Doku); 1 Arab (Nacer Chadli)

DENMARK: 23 Whites, 3 blacks (Martin Braithwaite, Mathias Jorgensen, Yussuf Poulsen)

FINLAND: 22 Whites; 4 blacks (Glen Kamara, Pyry Soiri, Nikio Hamalainen, Nikolai Alho)

RUSSIA: 23 Whites (including Brazilian import Mario Fernandes); 1 Ingush (Magomed Ozdoyev); 2 Tatars (Rifat Zhemaletdinov, Daler Kuzyayev)

GROUP C

AUSTRIA: 23 Whites; 3 blacks (David Alaba, Karim Onisiwo, Valentino Lazaro)

*NETHERLANDS: 14 Whites; 11 blacks (Nathan Ake, Owen Wijndal, Georginio Wijnaldum, Memphis Depay, Quincy Promes, Patrick van Aanholt, Ryan Gravenberch, Donyell Malen, Denzel Dumfries, Jurrien Timber, Cody Gakpo)

NORTH MACEDONIA: 20 Whites; 5 Albanians (Egzon Bejtulai, Arjan Ademi, Ezgjan Alioski, Ferhan Hasani, Enis Bardhi); 1 Turk (Elif Elmas)

UKRAINE: 25 Whites; 1 black (Marlos)

GROUP D

CROATIA: 26 Whites

CZECH REPUBLIC: 26 Whites

ENGLAND: 15 Whites; 11 blacks (Kyle Walker, Raheem Sterling, Marcus Rashford, Kieran Trippier, Kelvin Phillips, Tyrone Mings, Jadon Sancho, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Reece James, Bukayo Saka, Jude Bellingham)

SCOTLAND: 25 Whites, 1 black (Che Adams)

GROUP E:

*POLAND: 25 Whites

SLOVAKIA: 26 Whites

*SPAIN: 22 Whites; 2 blacks (Thiago Alcantara, Adama Traore)

SWEDEN: 21 Whites; 5 blacks (Alexander Isak, Ken Sema, Robin Quaison, Jordan Larsson, Jens Cajuste)

GROUP F:

FRANCE: 9 Whites; 15 blacks (Presnel Kimpembe, Raphael Varane, Paul Pogba, Thomas Lemar, Kylian Mbappe, Ousmane Dembele, Corentin Tolisso, N’Golo Kante, Kurt Zouma, Steve Mandanda, Moussa Sissoko, Kingsley Coman, Mike Maignan, Jules Kounde, Marcus Thuram); 2 Arabs (Karim Benzema, Wissam Ben Yedder)

GERMANY: 20 Whites; 4 blacks (Antonio Rudiger, Serge Gnabry, Jamal Musiala, Leroy Sane); 2 Turks (Ilkay Gundogan, Emre Can)

HUNGARY: 25 Whites; 1 black (Loic Nego)

PORTUGAL: 20 Whites; 6 blacks (Nelson Semedo, Pepe, Danilo Pereira, William Carvalho, Renato Sanches, Nuno Mendes)

I assume that Yuri Malenkov was referring to the Czech Republic and not the Polish city of Czestochowa in his initial post…

 

[U88z]

Here are the racial breakdowns of all 24 Euro 2020 (cough…) squads. Mulattos and part-blacks are simply listed as “black” - including England’s very white-looking Kieran Trippier, whose father is a Negro.

Each nation submitted a final squad of 26 players, with three exceptions: the Netherlands (25), Poland (25), and Spain (24). The managers of the Netherlands and Poland opted not to replace injured players, while Spain named a squad of only twenty-four.

GROUP A

ITALY: 25 Whites (including Brazilian import Jorginho); 1 black (Emerson)

SWITZERLAND: 10 Whites; 8 blacks (Kevin Mbabu, Manuel Akanji, Denis Zakaria, Breel Embolo, Yvon Mvogo, Djibril Sow, Edimilson Fernandes, Jordan Lotomba); 2 Bosnian Muslims (Haris Seferovic, Becir Omaragic); 3 Albanians (Granit Xhaka, Admir Mehmedi, Xherdan Shaqiri); 2 mestizos (Ruben Vargas, Ricardo Rodriguez); 1 Turk (Eray Comert)

TURKEY: 26 Turks (interestingly enough, six of those Turks were born outside of Turkey: Kenan Karaman, Hakan Calhanoglu, Kaan Ayhan – Germany; Orkun Kokcu, Halil Dervisoglu – Netherlands; Mert Muldur - Austria)

WALES: 23 Whites, 3 blacks (Tyler Roberts, Ethan Ampadu, Ben Cabango)

GROUP B

BELGIUM: 17 Whites; 8 blacks (Dedryck Boyata, Axel Witsel, Youri Tielemans, Romelu Lukaku, Jason Denayer, Christian Benteke, Michy Batshuayi, Jeremy Doku); 1 Arab (Nacer Chadli)

DENMARK: 23 Whites, 3 blacks (Martin Braithwaite, Mathias Jorgensen, Yussuf Poulsen)

FINLAND: 22 Whites; 4 blacks (Glen Kamara, Pyry Soiri, Nikio Hamalainen, Nikolai Alho)

RUSSIA: 23 Whites (including Brazilian import Mario Fernandes); 1 Ingush (Magomed Ozdoyev); 2 Tatars (Rifat Zhemaletdinov, Daler Kuzyayev)

GROUP C

AUSTRIA: 23 Whites; 3 blacks (David Alaba, Karim Onisiwo, Valentino Lazaro)

*NETHERLANDS: 14 Whites; 11 blacks (Nathan Ake, Owen Wijndal, Georginio Wijnaldum, Memphis Depay, Quincy Promes, Patrick van Aanholt, Ryan Gravenberch, Donyell Malen, Denzel Dumfries, Jurrien Timber, Cody Gakpo)

NORTH MACEDONIA: 20 Whites; 5 Albanians (Egzon Bejtulai, Arjan Ademi, Ezgjan Alioski, Ferhan Hasani, Enis Bardhi); 1 Turk (Elif Elmas)

UKRAINE: 25 Whites; 1 black (Marlos)

GROUP D

CROATIA: 26 Whites

CZECH REPUBLIC: 26 Whites

ENGLAND: 15 Whites; 11 blacks (Kyle Walker, Raheem Sterling, Marcus Rashford, Kieran Trippier, Kelvin Phillips, Tyrone Mings, Jadon Sancho, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Reece James, Bukayo Saka, Jude Bellingham)

SCOTLAND: 25 Whites, 1 black (Che Adams)

GROUP E:

*POLAND: 25 Whites

SLOVAKIA: 26 Whites

*SPAIN: 22 Whites; 2 blacks (Thiago Alcantara, Adama Traore)

SWEDEN: 21 Whites; 5 blacks (Alexander Isak, Ken Sema, Robin Quaison, Jordan Larsson, Jens Cajuste)

GROUP F:

FRANCE: 9 Whites; 15 blacks (Presnel Kimpembe, Raphael Varane, Paul Pogba, Thomas Lemar, Kylian Mbappe, Ousmane Dembele, Corentin Tolisso, N’Golo Kante, Kurt Zouma, Steve Mandanda, Moussa Sissoko, Kingsley Coman, Mike Maignan, Jules Kounde, Marcus Thuram); 2 Arabs (Karim Benzema, Wissam Ben Yedder)

GERMANY: 20 Whites; 4 blacks (Antonio Rudiger, Serge Gnabry, Jamal Musiala, Leroy Sane); 2 Turks (Ilkay Gundogan, Emre Can)

HUNGARY: 25 Whites; 1 black (Loic Nego)

PORTUGAL: 20 Whites; 6 blacks (Nelson Semedo, Pepe, Danilo Pereira, William Carvalho, Renato Sanches, Nuno Mendes)

I assume that Yuri Malenkov was referring to the Czech Republic and not the Polish city of Czestochowa in his initial post…

I black in Ukraine is a worrying sign.

 

[TheBigDawg]

Really hope Germany wins this

 

[TheBigDawg]

Ukraine also has a black wrestler

 

[Phall]

Here are the racial breakdowns of all 24 Euro 2020 (cough…) squads. Mulattos and part-blacks are simply listed as “black” - including England’s very white-looking Kieran Trippier, whose father is a Negro.

I assume that Yuri Malenkov was referring to the Czech Republic and not the Polish city of Czestochowa in his initial post…

Great to see you, Rebajlo! Please forgive me for overlooking Niko Hamalainen as a Finnish mulatto. And quite an angry looking one!

 

[icsept]

What a disgrace for England and Switzerland. France is a lost cause.

 

[yuri malenkov]

Yes I mean to say CZECH. The stupid spell check put that in there.
Marlo’s is White with blue eyes. His wife is an Asian/Mestizo Brazilian. Marlo’s mother is White in pictures. I don’t know how he could be classified as anything else. Southern Brazil is more European than America or Canada.

 

[Phall]

Nice opening 3-0 win for ALL ITALIANS!

I watched the whole game alone in my air-conditioned apartment.

I remember fondly watching a bit of the 1998 World Cup in while I was in Rome, they were projecting the game on a big hanging white screen in the park. My friend (not homosexual) and I could barely discern a thing. But it was chaos to travel back home! I have this very vivid, explicit memory of a guy hanging out of a backseat car window, singing "MAL - DEE -NEE, LA-LA, LA-LA, LA-LA!" over and over.

 

[yuri malenkov]

It was an easy win for Italia. I hope they go all they way. I didn’t see the import player at all during the match.

Andriy Shevchenko is an idiot to include Marlo Bonfim in the squad for Ukraine. He is a 5-7 midfielder who is 33/34 years old.Hopefully I don’t have to see him in any matches.

“Slava Ukraini, Heroiam Slava”

 

[wokewhite232]

I'll be betting against England, Switzerland, Netherlands and France as long as their opponents are like Croatia

 

[TheBigDawg]

Wales and Swiss tie 1-1

 

[Rebajlo]

Great to see you, Rebajlo! Please forgive me for overlooking Niko Hamalainen as a Finnish mulatto. And quite an angry looking one!

Thanks, Phall. Despite my silence over the past three years, I’ve still visited the board comparatively regularly and enjoy your erudite and engaging contributions.

The disastrous “French” victory at the last World Cup provided a final, apocalyptic watershed moment that virtually extinguished my already barely flickering interest in football to nothing more than checking the scores and standings, with cursory glances at team sheets. I haven’t watched a match since June 2018. The sickening, ever-expanding profusion of Negroes within the sport was bad enough. But when that was melded with the depraved BLM ******** and its full-blown appropriation of football (and all other major team disciplines) as a flagrant vehicle of vicious anti-White vilification and proportionate glorification of Negroes, even such casual attention has evaporated.

Given Hamaleinen’s surname and relative obscurity, it’s hardly surprising that you missed him. When Antonio Rudiger made his debut for Germany back in 2014, my best friend saw the surname on the team sheet and assumed it denoted a white bloke who was possibly part Italian...

 

[Rebajlo]

Yes I mean to say CZECH. The stupid spell check put that in there.
Marlo’s is White with blue eyes. His wife is an Asian/Mestizo Brazilian. Marlo’s mother is White in pictures. I don’t know how he could be classified as anything else. Southern Brazil is more European than America or Canada.

Yuri Malenkov -

Marlos certainly isn’t 100% White. I should have listed him as a “Brazilian brown” (i.e., a pardo) but I was posting at something like 3 AM.

Have a look at these photos...

Junior Moraes (right) is White. Marlos is not…

 

[TheBigDawg]

Denmark vs Finland is suspended after Danish midfielder Christian Eriksen collapsed on the field

 

[yuri malenkov]

Thanks for the pictures Rebajlo. I will agree he is a pardo of some type.
Andriy Shevchenko goes from needing a bitch slap like French Globalist Cuck Macron got, to needing a full force closed punch to the temple.

 

[Matra2]

Rebajlo - Hope you are well!

Thanks for the racial breakdown. I've paid so little attention to the sport the last couple of years I was pretty clueless about the make-up of most of the teams. I actually cancelled my main TV package over a year ago out of disgust with the BLM virtue-signalling and reduced my sports viewing to Serie A on an Italian language channel online that costs $5 a month. (No, I don't speak Italian!) However, last week I caved in and decided to get a sports channel back for Roland Garros, Wimbledon, and Euro 2020; I'll cancel it again in mid-July.

Anyway, the Belgian team just took the knee for BLM with Lukaku giving what looked like a black power salute. Kudos to the Russian fans for booing them. I fully expect all the British teams to do the same as Britain is little more than a nation of grovelling American sycophants these days. At this point the English F.A. should just add Three Lions kneepads to their merchandise shop.

One thing about the Belgian team that surprised me a bit is that there's only one Arab. (The country has a massive North African population, especially Moroccans). Then again, given the black over Arab/Berber domination in France I shouldn't be so surprised.

 

[U88z]

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Thanks, Phall. Despite my silence over the past three years, I’ve still visited the board comparatively regularly and enjoy your erudite and engaging contributions.

The disastrous “French” victory at the last World Cup provided a final, apocalyptic watershed moment that virtually extinguished my already barely flickering interest in football to nothing more than checking the scores and standings, with cursory glances at team sheets. I haven’t watched a match since June 2018. The sickening, ever-expanding profusion of Negroes within the sport was bad enough. But when that was melded with the depraved BLM ******** and its full-blown appropriation of football (and all other major team disciplines) as a flagrant vehicle of vicious anti-White vilification and proportionate glorification of Negroes, even such casual attention has evaporated.

Given Hamaleinen’s surname and relative obscurity, it’s hardly surprising that you missed him. When Antonio Rudiger made his debut for Germany back in 2014, my best friend saw the surname on the team sheet and assumed it denoted a white bloke who was possibly part Italian...

I was living on the edge with this farce ,now that it's non stop insertion of blcks and taking the knee has made me stop watching this politically correct propaganda. I don't even feel anything about my team Germany

 

[Phall]

England defeated Croatia and Belgium handled Russia in two predictable results that no one wanted to see.

The big news from yesterday was Denmark's 29 yr old Christian Eriksen going into cardiac arrest during the run of play against Finland. He needed to be resuscitated, received CPR, chest compressions, and defibrillator shocks on the field. This is a huge deal in Denmark, as Eriksen is one of their best players of all time.

The trillion dollar question that is too uncouth to ask is whether or not Eriksen received shots of experimental gene therapeutics recently. This is the most important and pressing topic and also one that cannot be raised. I've read that in Denmark, Eriksen's age group is not earmarked to receive Covid-19 shots until September, and the soccer team declined a priority status to jump the queue. That's inconclusive and also doesn't factor in his professional career in Italy with Inter Milan. There was also medical falsehood being pushed by lockdown enthusiasts last year that Covid-19 would increase myocarditis (heart inflammation) in athletes. Maybe the vaccine regime will use this event to play up that angle again. We will see!

 

[Rebajlo]

Rebajlo - Hope you are well!

Thanks for the racial breakdown. I've paid so little attention to the sport the last couple of years I was pretty clueless about the make-up of most of the teams. I actually cancelled my main TV package over a year ago out of disgust with the BLM virtue-signalling and reduced my sports viewing to Serie A on an Italian language channel online that costs $5 a month. (No, I don't speak Italian!) However, last week I caved in and decided to get a sports channel back for Roland Garros, Wimbledon, and Euro 2020; I'll cancel it again in mid-July.

Anyway, the Belgian team just took the knee for BLM with Lukaku giving what looked like a black power salute. Kudos to the Russian fans for booing them. I fully expect all the British teams to do the same as Britain is little more than a nation of grovelling American sycophants these days. At this point the English F.A. should just add Three Lions kneepads to their merchandise shop.

One thing about the Belgian team that surprised me a bit is that there's only one Arab. (The country has a massive North African population, especially Moroccans). Then again, given the black over Arab/Berber domination in France I shouldn't be so surprised.

Thanks, Matra2. I hope life has been treating you and your family kindly.

I’ve never subscribed to any cable or streaming services on principle. The preening multi-millionaires of the “global” sports industry aren’t getting a cent of my dosh by even the most oblique of means. That being said, I still retain my inexpensive annual “interstate” membership with the Melbourne Football Club (for anyone not in the know, that’s Aussie Rules), which I have supported my entire life. In fact, the only sports I watch live these days are Aussie Rules on free-to-air and the occasional one-day cycling race if it is being broadcast via the same medium. My NHL diet consists solely of highlights packages viewed online.

As I stated in my post above, I have paid minimal attention to football over the past three years. Even my previously ultra-hard-core interest in hockey has abated in the wake of the NHL’s collective adherence to the BLM dogma in the immediate wake of the ugly, blubbery-lipped Negro lifelong criminal’s demise (and I’m sure that you and everyone else here knows that “Negro” is a necessary euphemism for the other word beginning with N that I’d prefer to employ…).

It is impossible to support England. The disproportionately high number of Negroes in both the starting lineups and squads was insulting enough, but this constant, deplorable, and abominably embarrassing kneeling coupled with the pro-black, anti-White statements made by White players infuriates me to apoplectic levels. These White so-called “role models” are essentially repudiating the culture, identity, and material legacy bequeathed by their forebears. By promoting the repugnantly spurious, transparently contrived concepts of “White racism” and “White privilege”, they are perversely assuming responsibility and expressing an absurd guilt for the rotten fruits of the congenital deficiencies of the patently dysgenic black race. They are implying that Whites are inherently hateful and therefore morally inferior not only to blacks but to all other non-Whites. They are indoctrinating the younger generations with self-loathing and psychologically crippling mortification.

If these arrogant dopes avow that there is no place in either football and society for “ignorant” and “uneducated” “bigots” such as myself then I shall sure as hell return the compliment and refuse to watch them kicking a ball around. They certainly aren’t “representing” me.

The entire “sport” has further degenerated into a pure, undisguised propaganda vehicle in which the media assiduously attempts to promote a pro-Negro narrative at literally every juncture. Look at England’s opening game. The black Kalvin Phillips was instantly lauded as man of the match. The BBC posted a tweet from Chris Sutton, who specifically praised four blacks (Phillips, Tyrone Mings, Raheem Sterling, Jude Bellingham) and failed to mention a single White player.

Then there’s this year’s Ballon d’Or. Robert Lewandowski won the European Golden Boot when he scored 41 Bundesliga goals for Bayern Munich in just 29 games, breaking Gerd Muller’s record of 40 goals in one season set all the way back in 1972. The Polish striker sored at a truly astonishing rate of 1.413 goals per game. That’s a strike rate that is superior to any achieved by Cristiano Ronaldo in his entire club career. Lionel Messi has only once bettered 1.413 league goals per game: in 2012-13 he scored 46 goals in 32 games, which equates to 1.437 per game. Who knows how many additional goals Lewandowski would have netted this season had he not missed a month due to a knee injury.

One might logically assume that Lewandowski would be the overwhelming favourite to win the Ballon d’Or. If he happened to be a Negro, there would be absolutely no other player in the running. But wait! The media is instead hyping up Chelsea’s coal black N’Golo Kante, magically installing him as the potential frontrunner. Even closet poofter and all-round wimp Emmanuel Macron (who - despite doubtlessly handling plenty of balls - has probably never kicked a football in his life, let alone played) recently publicly announced that Kante should - and shall - win the award. And so the narrative continues…

The dearth of Arabs in the Belgian and French national teams, particularly the former, relative to their large populations in those countries is curious indeed.

There are actually very few Arabs playing in top-tier Belgian clubs, which are loaded with Belgian-born Negroes in addition to blacks from all over west and central Africa plus France.

I have a theory about the lack of a significant Arab presence at both club and international level. As always, it all begins with the near-universal modern belief in the natural sporting prowess of the Negro that essentially constitutes an admission of black physical superiority which - coupled with political pressure to “diversify” football - compels Belgian, Dutch, and French coaches to unquestionably give immediate preference to players of sub-Saharan African descent from the earliest ages, much like their counterparts do in the United States. This ensures that Negroes are the overwhelmingly preponderant group within youth squads and - crucially - that they also fill the unofficial yet compulsory non-White “diversity quota”. As we all know, Negroes habitually exhibit aggressive racial solidarity to actively protect and advance their own collective position within any organisation, particularly in professional sports. In this context, they employ their numerical advantage to make life difficult for all non-blacks - including Arabs, who they view as rivals for the “diversity” spotlight.

Perhaps that is also part of the reason why so many European-born Arabs opt to represent the countries of their parents and grandparents from a very early age. Players born in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and - increasingly - Spain always comprise a relatively weighty proportion of Moroccan national team squads, while the majority of players in Algerian squads are French-born. Tunisian squads also regularly feature a number of players born in France, in addition to a few from Germany, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia.

Or maybe the Arabs are just really shite at football. But I find such an assertion to be a bit simplistic, particularly when one takes their significant demographic presence into account plus the fact that Arabs are non-White and therefore natural candidates for calculated elevation into professional football. In addition, the average Arab under the age of thirty isn’t a pitiful, ultra-cowardly weed like the Pakis and other curry munchers in the UK (and Australia) who more often than not boast the south Asian genetic jackpot combination of scrawny limbs and a pot belly and are physically incapable of playing any form of contact sport.

Poland have predictably turned in yet another abysmally embarrassing “performance” and lost their opening match 2-1 to Slovakia, who eliminated your lads at the final hurdle of the ridiculously convoluted qualification process. I wasted eight minutes of my life watching an online “highlights” (that’s a bloody laugh…) package yesterday morning in the immediate aftermath of waking up, turning on my laptop, seeing the score, unleashing a short burst of vicious invective in Polish followed by a terse statement of disgust in English, looking at the team sheets, and finally grinding my teeth as I read a small portion of the usual turbid river of infuriatingly inane comments posted by clueless Polish fans who still fail to realise that both their national team and domestic league are the very worst in Europe in per capita terms and who remarkably believe that all of these losses are simply consequences of either managerial ineptitude or the players’ laziness and lack of national pride.