Football Fever
Big football weekend here in Berlin. Bayern Munich came to visit for Match of the Round. We had organised a big group of us to head out for it, with expectations of an absolute cracker. And while we did have a cracker of an evening the game itself never lived up to any great heights. Basically you had the 2 best defensive sides in the league cancelling out 2 great attacks, end result 0-0! Berlin did have the better of the play and did put the ball in the back of the net once but they were offside.
The game was a sell out, 74,500 punters which was pretty cool and the atmosphere was quite good, but Germans are not that loud, there is no big chanting or singing like at the English leagues, most people just kinda sit there and watch, which made us after 6 or 7 beers the loudest mob in our area complete with our own unique insights into the game, kept us chuckling anyhow.
The Olympic Stadium here is brilliant, fully covered and not a bad seat in the house. Plus tickets are dirt cheap really, only 18 euros to sit up the back. I must say a word about the weather. Check out the photo below, I don’t know how these guys play in such weather. It was 5.30pm on a Sunday evening when the game started, the temperature must have been about 2 degrees and we had wind and ice rain. These people are made of steel!
World Cup Tickets are now on sale and while we won’t know if the Aussies will be there until the end of the year, by which time nearly all tickets will be sold – this is a concept I don’t really understand, how can you buy tickets for games when you don’t know who is playing, why can’t they wait till the schedule is fixed!! Anyway I’m toying with the idea of applying for tickets to the final here in Berlin. The cheapest ones are 120 euros which is a bloody lot of money but it is a one off event and I know the seats here are good. We’ll see, I’ll keep you updated.
