Michal Kobosko in the news magazine Wprost (July 2):
It was a success for Poland but it’s clear that not all that glitters is gold. Since Euro 2012, we have excellent roads but a growing number of firms that built them are filing for bankruptcy. And we have stadiums that we don’t quite know what to do with. They are supposed to generate revenue at some point….
Euro 2012 has also left us with a kind of football hangover because yet again we played badly….
And we have something that could be called the Polish–Ukrainian complex. Not that I love [the radio presenters] Wojewodzki and Figurski for their nonsense. But they did highlight a problem that has long been swept under the carpet: the contempt for Ukrainians.…
We have a lot of homework left to do.
Eric Koch’s new book, The Golden Years: Five Stories, was launched on Saturday, March 16. The book is available from the 
International competitive sport was supposed to be a safe and healthy substitute for war. Sadly, we still have wars, tribalism still exists and sports fans outrageously act out their petty nationalistic hatreds. If only spectators were to cheer for every great play no matter which team was responsible, rather than deriding every player on the other side. There is no other side. We’re all us, and we need a cure for aggression.
Sports are a substitute for war. Blogs are a substitute for sports.
In terms of the sport of my youth, croquet, I see you as the ‘free rover’ (maybe that was in our House rules…).
He shoots! He scores! Bravo!
Perhaps not a substitute. Bloggers, or at least one of them, are good sports.
While each one has tragedy, there are fewer wars now that at any time since man formed in collectives, and less crime too. Concurrently, there are more sporting events and more spectators than ever before. Causal link? Which way?
Mike Sky
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