Because Polish football needs dragging out of the dark ages. It needs to become a game which people can take their kids to, which single women can attend, which people of all colours can attend. At the moment it really isn't that.
I agree with that.
But, as a side note, I don't go to football matches because I'm afraid to go, I don't attend them because I'm not interested.
The level of Polish league is low (just like Polish football in general) and I suspect matches are boring. Maybe that's one of the reasons why Polish stadiums have been often taken over by hooligans - noone else cares. I can't really imagine whole families going to matches of the Polish league even if it was super safe.
Euro 2012 has helped (the new stadia at least) but it could have helped a lot more. One of the main problems was that the Polish authorities (just as a lot of Poles) didn't face up to the problems which they have in the game.
What do you mean?
So now we have the sight of excellent stadia being partly closed because the 'fans' can't act like adults. Euro 2012 was a superb opportunity to build from, but one that's been partially lost already.
As far as I know those "excellent stadia" are having problems because they don't pay for themselves. Even before the Euro people were saying that it's going to be like that and that other countries had similar problems, and, tbh, that was the reason I was pretty much against organising Euro in Poland. I thought it was going to be just a waste of money.
Which bit of it? The bit about how only his words in the about the topic of the program were used? Or the bit where his suggestion about the non-British white footballers who play in Poland was assessed as 'not fitting' the program?
His whole statement.
The programme was about racism in football in Poland and Ukraine, and not about racism in the two counties generally.
If that was the case why such reaction from Jonathan Ornstein?
So, in that case, you are commenting on a programme you haven't seen about a problem you have had no personal experience of.
Jonathan Ornstein has seen it and even took part in it. What do you think about his statement?
That's pretty flimsy evidence.
lol
Ifor, I don't even need that "flimsy evidence" to make a logical conclusion.