In today’s Fiver: the Curious Contempt of Krakow, laser sights and road news
The beauty of youth football tournaments is that fresh-faced young sportspeople, unburdened by memories of their nations’ toils or triumphs of yesteryear and preoccupied with more juvenile concerns such as novelty handshake choreography and fidget-spinner technique, can create histories that are entirely their own. But it is becoming apparent that at least one of the teams in Poland for the European Under-21 Championship knows a little bit more than they ought to. Clearly the previous escapades of Die Grown-Up Mannschaft crop up regularly on the Realschulabschluss syllabus, for their team are turning the tournament into something of a footballing jukebox, wheeling out covers of the nation’s greatest hits.
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