To start a day with a beer can never be wrong. A group of Tyroler people had a small restaurant place just next to our house car. Time to go there together with Lilleman and Barklund for a beer and discussin lots of unnecessary stuff.

One of the owners had an überold fire alarm that was activated by waiving the handle and sounded like the real thing. We got to borrow it but had to promise to get it into the arena durig the game. NO PROBLEMS! Barklund and Nilses is testing it.

The siren had survived the war, the bombings in the final stages of the European conflict, ten years of Soviet occupation and then 50 years on top of that. Then it took Nilses fifteen seconds for it to break it down like finnish hockey tactics. How is it possible? The poor restaurant people spent over forty minutes to fix it.

Enough with playing around. After having visited the arena it was time to get loaded with alcohol before the game SWE-LAT in the evening. So we slowly got back to the house car to drink beer.

We had parked the car next to this nice sign since it was a good way for us to find back to the car after the heavy drinking in the middle of the night. Ok, our finnish supporter friend said that “no, itts jast bekos it is saatana mann dere. Jo lajk him for all Swedish mann is hooomo!” and so on.
But we’d rather set our own hair on fire and have someone put it out with a sledge hammer than listen to what finnish people has to say, so we had our house car by this sign.

Up with a cage of our long necked friends and on with the stereo with hockey music and here we go!!!

Nilses is doing some warming up on one of the parked cars.

FORZA, FORZA, GO, GO Let’s get them now!!! Singing while drunk to the tones of the Swedish hockey song “I Gult & Blått” (in Yellow & Blue). But of course the original is performed better.

As said. Check out the clip and maybe you will understand what party we had before the game. And we know, it doesn’t sound good, but this is how it shall be during the World Championships in Ice Hockey. Being drunk, singing, good weather and good mood!

Nilses and Patrik is getting organised before the game.

SWEEEEEDEEEEEEN!!! Do you get that, you sober bastards! Munken seems amused by Gabbes screaming. Guess that he was the only one.

Then it was time for Ellu, veteran since 1995 in Stockholm, to come by and sell tickets. Ellu was just as nice to us as she always is. It is a little bit sad that we aren’t nice to her. But if you is supporting such a looser team as the finnish one then you has to be prepared to take a lot of shit.

….and Patrik was filming and filming and… Everything was just as it has always been.

Visit in the house car by these nice dudes. They appeared from nowhere, had a couple of beers and was just extremely social. We hope to see them in Latvia next year.

Ellu and Nilses is fooling around in the car. It seems like the booze is doing its work.

Time to get painted before the game. Nilses and Lövis is getting fixed by painting the country colours in the face.

Great! The sun is shining on “The Swedes” and it seems like Gabbe is doing this painting thing just as good as Patrik. Or…

Munken wanted to go to the game as well and also wanted to have the Swedish colours painted in the face just like the rest of us. Gabbe though decided, while drunk, to have a little fun with the dude and painted the colours reverted with a yellow field and blue cross so that everyone really was to get the impression of a “Confused finn”.

Damn it looks bad!

Olympiahalle in Innsbruck. A little bit of Ostrava feeling over it. A big concrete building that had a lot of Eastern-state over it and with some painting and a lot of napalm had made a nice mausoleum.

Hello there girl! Gabbe is talking with one of the Swedish girls that was working for SonyEricsson inside the arena and that was taking photos of everything and everyone all the time. Just like Patrik, but as you can see, these chicks were so much better looking than Patrik!

Gabbe and Lövis are looking forward to an exiting game. Why Gabbe was dragging around the old Soviet Belarusian flag nobody knows. He just said like Fredner did during the Championships in Italy in 1994 “it’s just supposed to be here!”

Of course the other guys were sitting on the other side of the hall and since there were no chance in hell to get over to the other side we just had to cheer as good as possible.

Two questions: What were these finns doing at the Swedish game? Ok, they might like hockey or something, what do we know. But. If you cannot spell the name of your own country, in your own language, well then you just don’t even deserve to be teased. It’s like a Swedish supporter should write “Svegrije” on a sheet and then actuelly be proud of your “masterpiece”. One is speechless!!!

It’s looking good. Sweden is having a secure 8-1 lead in the third.

Nilses is giving it all, together with one of the finns that were inside Olympiahalle and that came to congratulate to the enormous victory for the Yellow and Blue.

Munken is starting to look really tired. Look at him!

At the same time Nilses is drumming together with the Latvians. A movie sequence was broadcasted on Swedish TV 3 with the comment.
“An incredibly good spirit inside the arena as it always is during the World Championships. It is so fun to see supporters from two countries that meet each other have so much fun together.”
As said. It was Svea Svin that together with the Latvians that made the commentator to say this, not members from some other fan club. Munken also seems to have woken up and he has also skipped his ugly paper hat.

Time for party and fun in the tent after the game. Munken seems to have really gotten his shit together after his heavy drinking before and after the game.

Yet another girl from SonyEricsson that is better looking than Patrik.

Nilses and Gabbe is celebrating the victory against the Latvians. But what about Lövis? Looks a little bit pissed off. Fully understandable since he was denied beer at the bar since it was closed. Bad!

Munken got back after having temporarily throwed away his wig and cleaned up his face.

Ellu was just like the rest of us and decided to party her way through the night.

The morning rises over our car and it seems like the heavy partying has gotten hard on Patrik.
Despite Patriks reputation as a non-drinker we think that it is very strange that he was throwing up the whole morning and woke up the rest of us. Strange.

And it is time to go to bed. Munken and Lövis is looking so cute together, we also mocked them during our whole stay in Austria for their pink sheets…