England team’s Euro 2012 camp is a DUMP

THESE ramshackle showers are part of the shambolic dump chosen as England's Euro 2012 training ground.
The gutted changing rooms are strewn with rubble — and the churned-up pitch must be replaced.
An FA source said they picked Poland's Hutnik Krakow stadium because the other options were WORSE.
But the muddy, waterlogged pitch and rubble-strewn changing rooms are barely fit for a pub team.
Yet this tumbledown stadium, home to Polish part-timers Hutnik Krakow FC, will be England's Euro 2012 training base in six months.
Hutnik's bosses say extensive renovation is under way and their pampered Three Lions' guests can look forward to five-star treatment when they arrive.
But work has yet to start on laying a new pitch that is up to tournament standards.
And the dressing rooms and medical facilities, which have not been decorated since the 1970s, are a shambles.
The team bath is little more than a pile of grubby bricks.
The playing area is also wide open to prying eyes — so coach Fabio Capello may be forced to erect screens around the pitch to stop his training sessions being studied by rivals.
But despite the huge amount of work ahead, there was little evidence of urgency at the stadium yesterday.
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Wayne Rooney Euro 2012 ban reduced to two matches

England striker Wayne Rooney's ban for the Euro 2012 Championship has been reduced to two matches from three after an appeal to Uefa in Switzerland.

He was punished after being sent off for kicking Miodrag Dzudovic during a 2-2 draw with Montenegro in October.
Rooney, 26, will now be available for England's third Group D game, against joint hosts Ukraine, but will miss the fixtures against France and Sweden.
The third match of his ban has been suspended for four years.
A Uefa spokesman told BBC Sport the third game ban would kick in only if he is sent off for violent conduct in another European Championship match.
"The ban applies only to national team competition governed by Uefa," said the spokesman.
Rooney has also agreed to do one day of community service with a Uefa project.
England manager Fabio Capello joined Rooney for the 90-minute hearing before a three-man appeals panel on Thursday morning.

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Euro 2012: Wayne Rooney's place in England squad not assured, warns Fabio Capello

FABIO CAPELLO last night admitted he may leave Wayne Rooney out of his Euro 2012 squad if the striker's three-game ban is not reduced this week.
Capello will join the Man United hitman in Nyon on Thursday when the FA will urge UEFA to slash the suspension he picked up for a red card against Montenegro.
Unless UEFA show leniency, Rooney will miss the three Group D games against France, Sweden and Ukraine before being available for the knock-out phase of the tournament.
But while Capello had previously hinted he would select Rooney despite the suspension, the England manager is now apparently having second thoughts.

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Euro 2012: England manager Fabio Capello looking to get into the groove for another marathon European tour

By the passing year, England resemble more and more a rock band who were big in the Sixties, have enjoyed a couple of near smash hits since and are still on the road, desperately seeking to recapture the glory days.

The stadiums still sell out and the merchandising still shifts, while eagerly awaited dates are being finalised for the “Talking About My Golden Generation” European tour.

Some of the famous old band members have retired, replaced by stars in the making, young performers who are technically good but have yet to prove whether they can survive the physical and psychological rigours of a gruelling summer schedule.

England’s May and June itinerary certainly reads like a rock group’s mammoth tour: London, Marbella, London, Dublin, Krakow, Donetsk, Krakow, Kiev, Krakow, Donetsk, Krakow. If “Three Lions On A Tour” is well-received, extra shows could be added in Donetsk, Kiev or Warsaw, with a possible grand finale in Kiev in July. From Andalusia to the Carpathians, England are all over Europe.

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