Inflammatory: Local press have made references to Poland's victorious 1920 battle against the Bolshevik Army, known as the Miracle on the Vistula

Fursenko and manager Dick Advocaat led a Russia delegation to the memorial in Warsaw for former Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who was killed two years ago in a plane crash in Russia.

Many Poles regard his death as suspicious, their anger compounded by the fact that he was travelling to Russia to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, when thousands of Polish soldiers were murdered by Soviet troops during the Second World War.

On the pitch Poland will also be concerned. They failed to beat Greece on Friday, then Russia put four past the Czech Republic.

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