What to do while in Ukraine

1. EURO 2012  Football Minute When someone asks for a minute to do something, even though they know it will take much longer than 60 seconds. Wife: I need to run into this store. It'll only take a minute Husband mumbles: More like a football minute. 2.   EURO 2012  Football Minute A period of time described as one minute that will actually become several times longer, especially if due to frequent interruptions. Antonym: New York minute Dude, you said you'd be here in a New York minute. That was like fifteen minutes ago. More like a football minute. 3. EURO 2012  Football hooligan English Football Hooligans' kit: Chest: England sports shirt OR bare beer belly Legs: Blue Jeans, or optionally tracksuits for the thinner hooligan Left Hand: Brick. Preferably, attached to a string so you can throw it through a shop window and get it back without much fuss. Right Hand: Either a half-full bottle of Carlsberg or a broken bottle of Carlsberg. Fingers: Fake gold jewelle

During EURO 2012 many roads of Kiev City will be blocked and the center of Kiev will become totally pedestrian. For more than a month, Khreshchatyk Street will be completely blocked, and a fan area will be arranged there. Since May 25 to July 1, the fan area will be exclusively for pedestrians. Also, fans who come by busses or car should know that during the days of match such streets as Khreshchatyk, Krasnoarmeyskaya, Fedorova, Barbyusa, as well as Laboratornyi Lane, L. Ukrainka Boulevard, Basseynaya Street, and L. Tolstogo Square will be closed. During the match, only guests, special equipment and local dwellers will be able to enter that area after showing their passport. Between the matches, this area will be working in the regular mode, except Khreshchatyk Street. During the days of match, it is planned to close some metro stations as well. For instance, “Olimpiyskaya” and “Dvorets Sporta” will be closed for the football day for 24 hours to avoid over-crowding and emergencies. Ma

Euro 2012 organisers insist that racism will not be tolerated, as co-hosts Poland and Ukraine gear up for the biggest sporting events of each country's history. LECH POZNAN supporters gatecrash Under-8's match and cause trouble   Cell for hooligans at NSK Olimpiyskiy.

Poland is looking forward to UEFA EURO 2012 with excitement. The Arena Gdansk and the Municipal Stadium Wroclaw are the latest grounds to be inaugurated, with the National Stadium Warsaw to follow before the end of December. Away from the stadiums, visitors will also enjoy the benefits of the extensive work that has gone into improving the country's infrastructure for the finals. In the established Chopin airport, visitors to Warsaw will also be able to fly into the new Modlin airport, which has been built specifically for the tournament. The two airport will be linked by train, with the same railway line also serving Warsaw's official fan zone and the National Stadium. Now that the Municipal Stadium Wroclaw and the Arena Gdansk are fully operational, both have already hosted major sports and entertainment events. Wroclaw will be further boosted by a new line connecting the stadium to the city center and fan zone, and work on the city's new airport terminal is also near

Members of a Ukrainian women’s rights group Femen went topless on a balcony in the center of Kiev o n Tuesday to protest against the bizarre initiative to forbid local residents from appearing on their balconies while wearing underclothing  during forthcoming European football championship (June/July 2012).   Kiev city authorities also asked from the national government to ban the use of apartment building balconies for drying laundry or for storage of personal property and make illegal any use of a privately-owned balcony within a half-kilometre of a game site.

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