
But wait a minute…have UEFA been smoking too many Jamaican cigarettes, or something? We watched with baited breath as UEFA president, Michele Platini (above), stood on stage in Cardiff, Wales, and slowly tore open the envelope. 但是且慢…已被欧洲足联禁止吸烟太多牙买加香烟,或一些呢?我们看到与饵呼气作为欧洲足联主席,米歇尔普拉蒂尼(以上) ,站在舞台上在加的夫,威尔士,慢慢地撕毁打开信封。 It was between Croatia/Hungary, Italy and Poland/Ukraine.它是介乎于克罗地亚/匈牙利,意大利和波兰/乌克兰。 Everyone expected Italy.每个人都预期意大利。
Half of me didn’t want Poland to win, as I knew I would have to throw together something about the story in about half an hour.一半的我不想波兰争取,正如我知道我将不得不一起扔一些有关的故事,在约半小时。 The other half of me - the footballing half (the bits with legs and feet) - wanted Poland to win.另一半的我-足球的一半(钻头的腿和脚) -通缉波兰取胜。
And then the ex-French mid-fielder pulled out the card with the names of the winning bid on it, and the footballing half took over.然后前法语中中场退出该卡的名称中标上,和足球的一半接管。 I emitted that noise men make when a goal is scored: i发出的噪音,使官兵当一个目标是得分:
Yeeeaahhhhaaaarrrgggggggg…gurgle…. yeeeaahhhhaaaarrrgggggggg gurgle … … 。
The same noise slowly echoed through all the offices next to mine and floated, like a Mexican wave, down the corridor.同时,噪音慢慢赞同通过的所有办事处旁边的地雷和浮动,像墨西哥波下跌走廊。
Then my brain kicked in again, along with the rest of Poland’s.然后我的脑踢在再次,随着其余的波兰的。 Have the guys in the European football governing body gone out of their tiny minds?有球员在欧洲足球的理事机构走出去其微小的头脑?
There are a few small problems with Poland and Ukraine being given such a huge sporting event to put on.有几个小问题与波兰和乌克兰正在考虑如此庞大的体育盛事,以提上。 Here are a just a few of them.这里是一个在短短数他们。
Poland has no…um…decent football stadiums.波兰没有…嗯…体面的足球场上。
Poland’s football governing body was suspended by the government earlier this year because it was not doing enough kicking ou (more…)波兰的足球理事机构暂停,由政府今年早些时候,因为它是做得不足够脚踢欧(更多… … )