Ukraine Border Control during EURO 2012
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