Tuesday, 27 December 2011

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.
Read more and view photos - http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3977895/England-teams-Euro-2012-camp-is-a-DUMP.html