Polish prices and a Mick McCarthy look-alike
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- Created: Monday, 21 September 2009 22:54
- Written by Ian Shine
If another day is worth another dollar, then a week is worth seven dollars, or 19 złotych 74 grosze if you’re Polish.
In Poland 19 złotych 74 grosze will get you half a litre of vodka, 80 cigarettes, six saucepans or a lot of bread. It’s temporal equivalent will get you another round of Ekstraklasa and another edition of Szybka Piłka, which this week made one yearn for a couple of the aforementioned material items. HINT: not the saucepans or the bread.
Like many a footballer I’ve been on the move this summer.
The new season may only be six fixtures old, but the 2009-10 Eredivisie is already taking shape and is promising to produce a highly competitive campaign. Judging by how the season has gone so far, last season's champions and runners-up (AZ Alkmaar and FC Twente) will face sterner opposition this time around, and not just from Ajax. Both Feyenoord and PSV have had flying starts and the early signs are that both clubs have the potential to reclaim past glories.
Most of the domestic leagues around the World may be taking a break but that only means that international football has taken centre stage. Yesterday produced a round of international friendly fixtures and much more significantly, World Cup qualifiers to whet the appetite.