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On The Continent: Shakhtar Donetsk’s story

Football Ramble

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Polish Football

There's an enormous amount of goodwill towards Shakhtar and Ukraine in general. There was this great choreo with, before kickoff, with all the fans holding up sort of coloured pieces of card to show the Ukrainian and Polish flags next to each other. It feels like the city is adopting the team a little bit - you have more vocal support behind them. Football is about place. It's about community, isn't it? And that's why everything that Shakhtar have done since they've been exiled over the last eight years is extraordinary,.

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