Few major tournaments can have felt so irrelevant to their time and place as the last European Championship and the potential fault lines in Ukraine were apparent to those who cared to lookThe Donbass Arena, built with several hundred million of an oligarch’s dollars, was as striking a modern setting for a football match as could be imagined. A shortish walk from the centre of Donetsk, it invited fans to get there early and join the families and couples enjoying a picnic or an ice cream in the sunshine on the carefully landscaped grassy knoll overlooking the sparkling new home …read more
Source: The Guardian
