Irish fans on course to be right at home on Poland racetrack

Irish punters look on course to be right at home when they hit the 15-acre Euro 2012 supporters’ campsite in Sopot, Poland — it’s a horse racetrack.

The 4,500 fans making the long-awaited trip all the way to the Baltic would be forgiven for thinking the hospitality stretches as far as building a mini-Oxegen music festival.

And more home comforts are nearby — an army of workers is pitching thousands of two-man tents beside the bars but thoughtfully a few hundred yards from the portable toilets. “Downwind, we hope,” a site manager said.