England's Euro 2012 hotel and training facilities unveiled – in pictures
Reserve team coaches? Old-fashioned transport in the main market square in KrakowPhotograph: Michael Regan/Getty ImagesThe Rooster bar in KrakowPhotograph: Michael Regan/Getty ImagesThe tunnel at Krakow's Hutnik Municipality Stadium where Fabio Capello's boys will practise running out to the roar of the crowdPhotograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
The facilities are a little more 'jumpers for goalposts' than England's lavishly paid players were expectingPhotograph: Michael Regan/Getty ImagesThe training pitch at the stadium. Carrington it isn'tPhotograph: Michael Regan/Getty ImagesWe think this is the away dugout at the stadium, working on the assumption that Goscie is Polish for guestsPhotograph: Michael Regan/Getty ImagesThe wide open spaces of the Hutnik stadiumPhotograph: Agencja Gazeta/ReutersAn inspiring message for the players as they train… even if the left-hand sign needs a new battery to help it light upPhotograph: Michael Regan/Getty ImagesThe 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 ImagesBlessed Pope John Paul II smiles benevolently on the seats where the Three Lions will sit. That's got to be good luckPhotograph: Michael Regan/Getty ImagesIt's a brave player who hangs his shirt on Igor's hook at Hutnik. John Terry's space, perhaps?Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty ImagesIs this where Fabio Capello will be working out his tactics? A 9-0-1 formation it is thenPhotograph: Michael Regan/Getty ImagesWags not welcome: England's hotel, the StaryPhotograph: Agencja Gazeta/ReutersA standard room at the Hotel Stary, which will host the England team. Perhaps the jacuzzi is behind one of the oak panelsPhotograph: Michael Regan/Getty ImagesA 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 ImagesThe hotel swimming pool combines the old and the newPhotograph: Michael Regan/Getty ImagesThrough the arches: another angle of the pool at England's hotelPhotograph: Michael Regan/Getty ImagesThe 'salt cellar' facility in the hotel spaPhotograph: Michael Regan/Getty ImagesEngland players can work off any injuries at the hotel gym – hopefully not too many will be carrying knocksPhotograph: Michael Regan/Getty ImagesBritish journalists and England representatives give the hotel the once-overPhotograph: Agencja Gazeta/ReutersThe mayor of Krakow, Jacek Majchrowski, displays a signed England shirt presented to him by the FA's director of communications Adrian BevingtonPhotograph: JACEK BEDNARCZYK/EPALet's hope the England team know what to do with thisPhotograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
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