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England's Euro 2012 hotel and training facilities unveiled – in pictures

Poland Euro 2012 Update: Visit to England Base Camp for UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland/Ukraine
Reserve team coaches? Old-fashioned transport in the main market square in Krakow Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
Poland Euro 2012 Update: Visit to England Base Camp for UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland/Ukraine
The Rooster bar in Krakow Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
Euro 2012 Poland: Visit to England Base Camp for UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland/Ukraine
The tunnel at Krakow's Hutnik Municipality Stadium where Fabio Capello's boys will practise running out to the roar of the crowd Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
Euro 2012 Poland: Visit to England Base Camp for UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland/Ukraine
The facilities are a little more 'jumpers for goalposts' than England's lavishly paid players were expecting Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
Euro 2012 Poland: Visit to England Base Camp for UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland/Ukraine
The training pitch at the stadium. Carrington it isn't Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
Euro 2012 Poland: Visit to England Base Camp for UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland/Ukraine
We think this is the away dugout at the stadium, working on the assumption that Goscie is Polish for guests Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
Poland Euro 2012 Update: A general view of Hutnik stadium in Krakow
The wide open spaces of the Hutnik stadium Photograph: Agencja Gazeta/Reuters
Euro 2012 Poland: Visit to England Base Camp for UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland/Ukraine
An inspiring message for the players as they train… even if the left-hand sign needs a new battery to help it light up Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
Euro 2012 Poland: Visit to England Base Camp for UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland/Ukraine
The changing facilities at the stadium. Not sure those seats are quite as comfortable as the ones England will have been used to at Wembley Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
Euro 2012 Poland: Visit to England Base Camp for UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland/Ukraine
Blessed Pope John Paul II smiles benevolently on the seats where the Three Lions will sit. That's got to be good luck Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
Euro 2012 Poland: Visit to England Base Camp for UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland/Ukraine
It's a brave player who hangs his shirt on Igor's hook at Hutnik. John Terry's space, perhaps? Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
Euro 2012 Poland: Visit to England Base Camp for UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland/Ukraine
Is this where Fabio Capello will be working out his tactics? A 9-0-1 formation it is then Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
Poland Euro 2012 Update: People walk outside hotel Stary in Krakow
Wags not welcome: England's hotel, the Stary Photograph: Agencja Gazeta/Reuters
Euro 2012 Poland: Visit to England Base Camp for UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland/Ukraine
A standard room at the Hotel Stary, which will host the England team. Perhaps the jacuzzi is behind one of the oak panels Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
Euro 2012 Poland: Visit to England Base Camp for UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland/Ukraine
A large bed, a big screen TV to watch opponents on, a writing desk to start those autobiographies on where it all went wrong… Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
Poland Euro 2012 Update: Visit to England Base Camp for UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland/Ukraine
The hotel swimming pool combines the old and the new Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
Poland Euro 2012 Update: Visit to England Base Camp for UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland/Ukraine
Through the arches: another angle of the pool at England's hotel Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
Poland Euro 2012 Update: Visit to England Base Camp for UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland/Ukraine
The 'salt cellar' facility in the hotel spa Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
Poland Euro 2012 Update: Visit to England Base Camp for UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland/Ukraine
England players can work off any injuries at the hotel gym – hopefully not too many will be carrying knocks Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
Poland Euro 2012 Update: British journalists and representatives of English team visit hotel Stary
British journalists and England representatives give the hotel the once-over Photograph: Agencja Gazeta/Reuters
Poland Euro 2012 Update: Director of communications for the FA Mayor of Krakow
The mayor of Krakow, Jacek Majchrowski, displays a signed England shirt presented to him by the FA's director of communications Adrian Bevington Photograph: JACEK BEDNARCZYK/EPA
Euro 2012 Poland: Visit to England Base Camp for UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland/Ukraine
Let's hope the England team know what to do with this Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
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