Poland – Russia a 1:1 tie. Hopefully a peaceful night in Poland. I witnessed my first skirmishes between fans and fan zone security today – nothing major. Between the language barrier and culturally different management styles/police tactics, I’m still kind of wondering what happened and why. 🙁 I was so hoping for a win tonight.
A day off from the fan zone tomorrow – maybe some lounging in the steam room.
Anonymous
I'm happy with the draw. Russians seem to be a good team in this year. What were the police tactics you wrote about?
Peter
Lois B
Peter – I agree about the Russian team. It seemed to me that their passing was much more accurate. Re: police tactics – it was explained to us in training that for the most part, police would be under cover gathering info for evidence if needed, not in uniform en masse. To a great extent, crowd control is left to the civilian "ochrona" security staff.
So much time was