What to do while in Ukraine

UEFA has announced two changes to the Regulations of the UEFA European Football Championship 2010–12, related to abandoned matches and friendly international fixtures scheduled in the run-up to the tournament. Paragraph 10.08 has been amended and paragraph 10.09 added to stipulate that if a match is abandoned, only the remaining part of the game must be completed the following day – unless the case is referred to the UEFA Control and Disciplinary Body. If it cannot be completed the following day, the UEFA administration will take a final decision. Players substituted or sent off in the abandoned match may not be included on the match sheet when it re-starts. And those players in play at the time of the abandonment may not be included as substitutes when the match is resumed. Teams can make only the number of substitutions available to them when the game was abandoned. The other decision refers to paragraph 2.08, which prohibits teams which have qualified for the final round from pl

For the first time in history, male football fans will actually WANT to be pulled over at the airport and given a thorough pat down while  making their way to Euro 2012 this summer . The staff checking passports at Ukraine's  Borispol airport, near Kiev, are nothing like the stereotypical border guards that one imagines at an Eastern European checkpoint. Indeed, they are unlike any border guards at any airport - with their manicured nails, perfect make-up and not-a-strand-out-of-place hairstyles. The young female guards in their severe military uniforms, waiting for their turn to be given a professional make-over, look like they might be models in a men's magazine photo shoot or a slick airline television commercial. But they are all border guards for a living, and their special pampering is part of a bizarre initiative to provide 'master classes' in grooming. The Ukrainian government is concerned that it might not be putting its best face forward when it co-hosts Euro