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Article: Hostility in the air and on the terraces.(News)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 10, 2009
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Byline: MATT BARLOW reports from Dnepropetrovsk
AWONKY little Lada jostles with a big fat Lexus to avoid a pothole at the busy junction outside the team hotel and the diesel fumes mingle with tobacco as curious bystanders try to catch a glimpse of an England footballer.
Horns blare, trolley buses rattle along and an elderly man with white hair and beard asks for 'a dollar' on the broad boulevard bearing the name of Karl Marx.
Welcome to Dnepropetrovsk. Not easy to reach, or spell and even harder to pronounce. According to UEFA, this once secret city of more than one million people is not fit to act as a venue in the Euro 2012 finals.
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