Saturday, 23 June 2012

Watching UEFA Euro matches in Corfu and Gotland

Watching the Greece-Germany quarter final last night on an open air TV in a village square in Corfu was a very different experience to watching another UEFA Euro match under similar midsummer circumstances on the Swedish island of Gotland some years ago.

I was surprised how subdued the Greek crowd was, not because the people may have been expecting Greece to lose- it was the same mood for other matches too.

In Gotland the crowd was far more excited, vocal and involved, a totally different atmosphere.

Swedes behaving "like Greeks", Greeks behaving "like Swedes"?

So much for national stereotypes.

On the match (Kathimerini)

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