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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