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Holy hostility! Now THAT is a banner

This is Russia

This is what the fans around the Warsaw grounds saw unfurled just a while ago, prior to kickoff of the Poland-Russia match.

I don’t know about you, but as public displays of tribal, athletic allegiance go, Herbie the Husker just ain’t quite as intimidating. (And given the history of these two lands, I think you have to file this one somewhere between “dangerously provocative” and “outright hostile.”)

Yikes.

This is Russia