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Citing crowd behavior, violence and “illicit banners,” European soccer’s governing body has already hacked six points off the Russian total for next round of qualifying. Tsk, tsk, guys:

I didn’t feel like yesterday’s photographic representation of that banner-of-absurd-scale did proper justice to the crazy thing. Here’s a better shot:

KIEV, Ukraine – There’s violence on the streets of Warsaw, but you’d have no idea it existed if you were sitting in Kiev and not watching TV:

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

Things began to come unraveled this evening in Warsaw, where Poland is meeting Russia in that Euro 2012 meeting with so many layers of Cold War history.

Considering the bitter history between these two lands, and considering some planned demonstrations, security in the Polish capital is super-tight ahead of tonight’s European Championship contest:

KIEV — When Andriy Shevchenko scored his second goal, putting Ukraine into the lead for good and telling Zlatan Ibrahimovic “anything you can do, I can do better,” the crowd in the Kiev Fan Zone exploded. But perhaps not quite as much as one might think. Sure, they were excited, but it was a brief…