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  Well I watched all the glorious football last night and it was really good and exciting stuff. The opening ceremony was fine and special. Fiona Bruce in her closing line on the BBC News last night said that..." the opening of Euro 2012 was overshadowed by racism".
  
  I think that was complete baloney myself. There is a tendency for news programmes to play up the dramatic in order to have a story. I did see the Panorama programme the previous monday about race issues in the Ukraine. It wasnt pleasant, and race problems clearly exist but the opening games were played in Poland and they were neither overshadowed nor marred by race problems. All played in fine spirit and excellent football to boot.
  
  This is not to say that race issues dont exist in the Ukraine, but there is a tendency to overdramatise the big occasion...if the news guys find ten racists within ten miles of a game, then the whole thing supposedly becomes "marred".

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