IIHF World Championships in Ice Hockey 2003 - finland

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Before the game against Belarus.
Bergman, Jörgen, Dennis and Gabbe are discussing and planning the day and evening. In finland there are really only two options when it comes to food for example. Hemohesburger and The American embassy (more known as Mc Donalds).
Thee were a loud discussion and many people wanted to make them heard. Some didn’t wanna sponsor the yanks with money and others screamed that it is f*****g impossible to know what one is ordering at Hemohesburger since all the menus are in finnish…

Gabbe thought that is was shit the same, just as bad, to have to give money to the Americans or the finns.
Can’t we just get drunk and then we might forget that we are hungry! Was his “clever” contribution to the discussion.

 
Dennis was the coolest one of all and was more focused on the drinking instead.
-While you are nagging, I’m gonna get drunk! Was his laid-back attitude.

No one remembers how we got organised, but obviously we were to eat Kebab after all. Just where the arena bus was taking off there was a Kebab-restaurant. Obviously Bergman had been there earlier and was satisfied.

 
Jörgen and Gabbe is getting in the right mood inside the arena against the game against Belarus. One of the bars that we found was located so darn well so that one could actually follow the game from inside the bar.
Let’s get those Belorussians!!!

Everything was actually quite fun before the game! We had gotten into a good mood, had new packets of cigarettes, and the alcohol was spinning in the head.
Suddenly someone points out to us (we think it was that bloody Bergman) that we still are in finland.
The fun spirit suddenly dropped again.

These guys weren't gonna let themselves be humiliated by some Belorussians in this tournament!

It's always best to get really, rellay drunk before a game. Also in finland.

BE-LA-RUS, BE-LA-RUS, BE-LA-RUS!!! Lotsa pressure on the belorussian section. Great people to deal with and to drink wit,

After the game it was time to go to town, try to get drunk, try to find supporters in the rain and snow, get dissapointed and go home.

Enough is enough! We thought that life is to short to be wasted on this joke of a championship. We’d rather marry our daughters with Chemical Ali than stay one more day in this gods forsaken place. Time to leave the hotel in other words.

A few hours left until the boat was to leave. We decided to go for a walk around town and get some food. Snibben and Snibban in the middle is freezing in the pissing rain and the wind that was torturing us during these tragic days in Åbo.

Svea Svin rates the World Championships in Åbo

Motivation: What was this??? We had, as we said, no bigger hopes for the finns to create good mood and a great tournament. We remembered how it had been during the World Championships in 1997. But we could never have expected it to be this bad.

Partymood:

As we have already mentioned there was no partytent in Åbo. This of course resulted in that people had no where to gather before the games. So instead everybody had to stay outside the arena in the cold weather, before going in.
The so called “Patymood” sucked worse than a Balkan-whore, and therefore The partymood gets a finnish vodka bottle as rating, meaning lower than lowest!

Arrangement:
Ok, the finns had a “hockey bus” that was to take people out to the arena from town. And this might have been a good thing on this miserable arrangement. But to our surprise the finns wanted to get paid for this so called service! Sure, 2 Euros was the price. The thing is also that since it was such a long way from town to the arena this was the only way to come to the arena.
Apart from this there was nothing, absolutely nothing, that was for the supporters. Sure the finns had arranged a “lunch for 1000 Swedish supporters” in central Åbo one day, but it consisted of pea soup, so we let it be.

Souvernirs:

The souvenirs is another tragic chapter. What was for sale was pins, pins, and even more pins, some ugly looking hats and like hundred different types of scarves(?). When looking into the sales catalogue there was some different souvenirs and when asked about them we got the answer “No, they have not arrived yet, but will come later”.
But what the fuck! Why were these souvenirs not for sale when the tournament had started? When were they gonna be sold then? After that tournament had ended or? Duh!

Weather:
The weather was another disaster. Rain, rain, rain and when it didn’t rain it was the snow that fell. Sure it’s not the fault of the people that arranged the Championships, but is never the less something that drags down the rating for The World Championships in Ice Hockey 2003.

But, was there nothing positive then about this tournament? Sure it was!

The arena:
The arena was really a great surprise! It was a very long time ago since we saw such a great hall. No matter where one were there were never far from Alcohol. The place was filled with restaurants, Bars and small places to eat. That is something for the people in Suck-Globe arena in Stockholm to copy.
The only bad thing about it was that sometimes the referee sounded like he stood in a tiled toilet in North Korea and shouted out information. But it was only on few occasions that the sound was that bad.

The guards:
The guards both at the arena and on the different pubs in Åbo was really, really nice! It seems like the had attended a charm-course since 1997 because they were really helpful at all times. They even let us stand inside the arena, which was Verboten during the Champs in1997.

Well, because of our own and also other peoples experiences during The World Championships in Ice Hockey in Åbo 2003, we are giving this shitty experience 2 logos of 10 possible. The finns proved to us, and the rest of the world, that they simply are incapable of creating fun for people that are coming to their country.
People that we have spoken to and told our stories to have been really surprised and argued “Could it really have been that bad?”. We can say that no one would be happier than us if this was the case.
These days, when all is over and the memories are slowly fading from this terrible event, we pray that finland never, never will be given the chance of ever hosting the World Championships again.

Shame on you, finland!!!

The melodies that we were humming during our stay in finland.
Melody Artist
finland Monty Python
I'm Back in the USSR The Beatles

The most humble people in Åbo:
The finns! Oh yes, believe it or not! Those of you that has ever been to a World Champs knows that the funniest thing that a finn knows is to show the Swedish people their enormously good language-skills that in 99% of the finnish-speaking population limits to the phrase “Mats Sundin is a homosexual”. BUT!
Nowadays we, the Swedes, are instead reminding them of the words that w have learned, HEMO HES. Hemo Hes is the doping substance that finnish sportsmen gladly and for years have been injecting on dirty toilets all over finland and for this they were exposed in 2001.
Trust us when we say these two words to the finns, the kakiness, the pompousness just disappear like magic. Remember, Sundin is not a homo, but the finns gets doped and because of this we will remind them of Hemo Hes until the end of time!

The most sad tendencies in Åbo:
The Latvians (or rather two of them) did something that we have never seen before and that is, violent behaviour against other supporters.
During the game SWE-LAT they managed to start two fights on the section where the main group of supporters were. But thanks to the fact that both the other Swedish and Latvian supporters threw out their respective “fighter” nothing more happened.
Here should be added that 99,9% of the Latvian supporters behaved just as good as the rest of us all.

Extra stuff  
Before the World Championships there were some really rude and (as always) comments that were very far away from reality made in our guestbook. We have here translated them for you to see for yourself what the finns think and their complete lack of normal politeness.
Today we can laugh for hours at these comments :-D

And, for those of you that don’t recall the game SWE-fin we are here giving you a little recap.


The best with this clip is to hear the finnish commentator getting more and more devastated as the swedish goals are falling in :-D

Here’s a little advice to the finnish national hockey team in all friendliness:
Get a Swedish coach and then you maybe, maybe might win the Gold again because you never managed to do it before 1995 and has never done it afterwards. That should tell you people something, shouldn’t it?

-Blessed are the drunks, for they shalt inherit the earth.

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