Polska, Life Is Peaceful There!

The 2006 World Cup has kicked off in Munchen.

Germany crushed Costa Rica, but hardly as convincingly as they should have.

We unceremoniously took in the first game at The Windmill accompanied by a puppy, a cat and three barflies, though the guy with the Polish flag/cape and the shaved head applying red and white face paint in the shiny push plate of the toilet door was portentous of things to come, as was the woman charging £2 to get into the place.

It was Tyskies all 'round when Poland went head to head with the high flying Ecuadorians.

The sizable Polish crowd that had amassed was extremely vocal. The afforementioned Super Polishman was the main cheer leader. He had an astoundingly penetrating voice that intermitently roused the crowd with: Polska, czerowny i biay!, which (rather uninspiringly) means Poland, red and white, and is sung to the tune of "Go West" by the Pet Shop Boys, nee The Village People.



Despite the enthusiasm of the crowd, Poland went down 2:0. Ecuador overcame their lack of form away from home and now look like favourites to proceed through to the next round behind Germany, which would be a first for them.

I bet the guinea pigs are hitting the barbeques back in Quito tonight!

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