Ice Hockey World Championships
in Austria 1996
The Hockey World Championships in Austria was definitely the best organised so far for us.
We had now learned how, when, where and why and the number of images from the World Championships is huge this year!
It was during this year's event that we got our current line-up in Svea Svin when we got Patrik as our fourth member of our supporters group. Those who know us personally know that it is Patrik who is the designated driver during the World Championships. Johnny and Fredner are way too drunk to drive and Gabbe doesn't have a driver's license at all so for him it's a non-issue.
The World Championships in Vienna 1996 was a superb event in every way where we again met lots of new and old friends and most of them from the World Championships in Italy two years ago.
The gang is prepared in Gothenburg. Still, we are sober and unharmed by alcohol, something that will change in the coming weeks.
The caravan in the background was to be our home and base camp for intense partying, that was our plan. We wanted the motorhome to be the hub for Swedish and foreign fans who liked to party and also for people to know which gang to stick with when it comes to partying during the World Championships.
Since we were going to take the boat from Sweden directly to Germany, we made sure to replenish our supplies of beer and spirits. Here we have just put on our hockey jerseys and are preparing to get all the stuff into the camper.
After buying our supplies we managed to party and drink all night long on the boat and unfortunately there are no pictures at all from the party, which is PATRIK'S FAULT!!! But according to unconfirmed rumours, there is a girl in Northern Norway who has pictures from this, and if we get hold of her we will of course publish them. We are not ashamed of anything!!
In the morning we found Fredner sleeping like a child upstairs in the restaurant where we had partied the night before. Here he has just woken up and realises that his Viking helmet is gone. Fredner more or less turned the restaurant upside down to find it, which he eventually did. The staff screamed and shouted about the mess he was making but we didn't care.
We never care!
During the World Championships in Italy two years ago, we met some very nice and great guys from finland, and we decided to pick up one of them, Muppa, in Fulda on the way down to Vienna. Muppa would prove that he is a just as big a party person as we are.
Fredner somewhere along the Autobahn, with a drum, his helmet and a belly full of beer.
Somewhere in the middle of nowhere, it's obviously time for food.
For God's sake, aren't we in Vienna soon?