Wed 14th June – Dortmund, tent city
- 16 Jun 06, 12:23 AM
What a brilliant day! Town was buzzing in the build up to the Germany Poland game, felt like the final not a group match. Fans of both sides really went to town on their outfits, German flag Mohicans, red and white afro wigs…..great fun. The best thing about it though was that all the fans were celebrating together! Getting drunk in the sun and singing each other’s songs, as the afternoon wore on they even started painting the others teams flags on their faces! Never seen anything like it! It was almost like a protest against all the hoolies who were promising to start a scrap at the match.
In the end there was some trouble…the cops said it was started by some known German hooligans who had been fighting with Poles in the woods on the border a few months ago. But the police piled in and squashed it all pretty quickly and most people there didn’t even notice it had happened.
The only down side to the day was the jubilant German fans who kept us up til five o’clock in the morning! The English fans on the campsite were retaliating by blasting out England’s 1966 team song very very loud. Come on England! Everyone still buzzing with the whole atmosphere, even the Poles who are the first team to go out, bless em. Staying in the fans campsites is a bit like being at a very long music festival. Everyone is permanently drunk, the food is terrible, and the toilets are on a par with those at Glastonbury. And it’s great fun!
