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World Cup 2006 Blog

From our reporters in Germany

On the road again

MartinA SERVICE STATION, NORTH OF HAMBURG – Svan’s fixed! Yippee!

Well, it’s only a patch up job on our busted rear end but it looks good enough to keep us going for the rest of the tournament – touch wood – and more importantly to get us to Gelsenkirchen for .

backend203.jpgOur helpful Fiat garage crew all got a Fletch and Ricco T-shirt for their troubles, and very pleased with them they were too.

Thanks also to , who replied on this blog kindly offering to help us out if our Fiat friends couldn’t do the job.

We’re currently holed-up at a service station on the motorway which runs past the Hamburg stadium and recharging our batteries after an early start - the mechanics kicked us out at 7:30 – later we’ll be heading back to the city to watch the Germany v Argentina game.

Then we’ve got tickets for Italy v Ukraine this evening and finally we’ll head off south during the night, quite a packed day.

We drove past the fans fest on the near the Reeperbahn on the way out here and the atmosphere for Germany’s quarter-final is growing rapidly.

I picked up my free Deutschland tattoos with my copy of Bild this morning, although Fletch has turned his nose up at them.

And we marvelled at one German fan performing a complex dance involving handstands in the middle of the road, while we waited at some traffic lights.

A lot of the shops and businesses we’ve seen today have makeshift signs in the window saying they are closing early and the paper is predicting traffic chaos as everyone tries to make it somewhere for the 17:00 kick-off.

Fletch may have mixed feelings about this fixture, between two of England’s arch-rivals, but I definitely want the hosts to win.

OK, I’m a little biased – my mum is from these parts – but if they continue playing the breed of attacking football they have in the previous games they’ll deserve it.

Plus their surprising form has whipped the country up into a real World Cup frenzy.

Altogether now, "Berlin, Berlin, wir fahren nach Berlin!"

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  • 1.
  • At 09:57 PM on 30 Jun 2006,
  • wrote:

This is very good sign that Germans are very helpful that someone wants to help you if the Fiat people fail to solve the problem. It can not be said which team will win as it is the situation of acting like do or die. You have experienced another kind of heat before getting the heat of the quarter- final. I hope your coming days will be free from fear and any kinds of accident.

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  • At 03:17 PM on 02 Jul 2006,
  • ali akbar wrote:

germans are already worldchampions the way they treated the whole world as guests.

I have yet to hear from anyone who has had a negative experience in worldcup that is a fault of the germans ( except of the football teams the played!).

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