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From our reporters in Germany

Samba beat hits Munich

Martin MUNiCH - Arriving in Munich we've walked straight into another massive party, the Brazilians and Aussies are in town for their match on Sunday.

As every other first time visitor to the city, Fletch and I made a bee-line for the to try and get something to eat and drink.

This wasn't an original idea - the massive queue outside made us turn our attention to a smaller place across the road called .

Upstairs there was a big screen and we tucked into the best meal of the trip so far, I had roast duck with potato dumplings and apple-flavoured red cabbage - nice!

On the table next to us was a big group of Brazilians and when someone noticed that one of the them had a tambourine they produced a full set of drums from underneath the table and treated us to an impromptu performance.

Check out the video.

We're expecting a lot more of this in the build-up to the game today.

The van's a bit pungent this morning after we both stayed out quite late last night, meeting up with friends who are also in Munich.

We had a few drinks with fellow blogger Paul Atherton and the Match of the Day crew, a thoroughly nice bunch, in a massive beer garden.

Although we didn't get on it, the main attraction in the garden was a 12-foot long table football game - with room fror about six players on each side.

The game did tend to get bogged down in midfield, but it looked great fun.

And watch our video of a German guy with the craziest English accent, Bavaria via Trinidad and Tobago.

Don't forget to for the chance to win some fabulous Sport Relief prizes, including a Pele-signed table football and our very own Shevchenko-signed Fletch and Ricco t-shirts.

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  • 1.
  • At 02:25 PM on 18 Jun 2006,
  • wrote:

A 12 foot long table futbol game and you didn't play!? SHocking.
One of my fav gifts of all time was a classic old school table futbol game....Spurs almost always beat Arsenal in that one and rest assured that England did pretty well also!
Nice video effort gents!

Ronnie @ www.globalfutbol.com


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  • 2.
  • At 06:01 PM on 18 Jun 2006,
  • wrote:

go on this website watch the videos and then subscribe

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  • 3.
  • At 08:21 PM on 18 Jun 2006,
  • mc kenna wrote:

hey you made the sunday times today
"the bbc has spent at least 拢3m of licence payers money taking a team of 300 to the world cup. Some are reduced
to writing stories on the web about "svan" ther mobile home, needing a new immobiliser."
all money well spent i reckon

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Yeah, Svan's famous!! No mention of us though, bit of a shame - we're just the "some" reduced to writing about it

Glad you are enjoying the blog

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  • 5.
  • At 10:44 PM on 18 Jun 2006,
  • dani wrote:

I think the german with the west indian accent was taking the piss, he said his name was Marcus Garvey.
Would this be the same Marcus Garvey that was the 1st national hero of Jamaica and a proponent of the Rastafari movement?

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  • 6.
  • At 10:35 AM on 19 Jun 2006,
  • roy wrote:

i think that german with a crazy accent might have been having you on, marcus garvey is the father of black nationalism and a prophet in the rastafarian religion.

excellent diction though.

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  • 7.
  • At 12:20 PM on 19 Jun 2006,
  • Lukey wrote:

For a lesson in silky table futbol skills, check out this fan video on the official world cup site, superb!

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  • 8.
  • At 12:31 PM on 19 Jun 2006,
  • Matt Johnson wrote:

The 大象传媒's coverage of this world cup has been fantastic. All the online and 大象传媒i stuff is a real bonus, too - big cheer for the 大象传媒 for having the courage to branch out into new areas, and embrace new technology.

Definitely worth every peeny of the 拢3m.

P.S - love the Svan stories.

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