Time to get to the arena. After some chatting and discussion we found out that the bus stopped in central Åbo. Obviously this was the only way to get to the arena since Åbo don’t have any tram that goes there.
Lillis, Bergman, Dennis and Jörgen is still in a very good mood that it is finally World Champs again. The good party mood from the night before were still with them…
Watta hell is this!!?? Here we have been naïve and thought that
the finns had learned something from the last tie n 1997, but not…
It rather seems like they have made all effort to make it even worse
and the area just outside the arena even more deserted than six years
ago.
As a comparison we can tell that even the Russians had managed to put up, even though small, beer tent outside Peter the Great arena in St. Petersburg during the World Champs 2000. That should tell you something…
The pearl and Bankman are nagging on one of the Latvians that Sweden of course will win the opening game against them.
Bankman from The Nice dudes are doing his best to get the supporters going. Can be a little hard at this time since he obviously hadn’t noticed that it was almost ten minutes until the game started.
TV3 was as usual there to report home to the Swedish viewers.
Just some more seconds left until the game starts.
Of course Sweden won the game, the national anthem was
played and it was time to go to town, meet supporters and get drunk.
That was what we thought..
We have never, NEVER seen or experienced something so lame as Åbo
during this World Champs. Sure, it was Saturday night and a lot of people
in motion in town, but were where all the supporters? Where were all
the thousands of Latvians that we had seen at the arena? Before and during
the game?
We went in to “our” place from 1997, Hamburger Club, and
got drunk, spoke some to some swedish-speaking finns and then went home
to the hotel.
