We're here in Athens for the Champions League Final. The city is awash in red (not many milan fans in sight)
It is amazing how many fans are here, the sea of red shirts, hats, backpacks and just crazy scarfs is amazing. Rachelle and I joke that we'll be easy to find as we're two of five females here wearing the appropriate shirts (out of what, the 50,000 men?)
We had a great time yesterday running around town looking at Liverpool gear, watching crazy singing and then we went out with Chris and his friend Chris and we were out near Syntagama square (where all the Liverpool stuff is) and we were there from about 12:30-2:30 with all these (very drunk) liverpool fans singing (no shoving, no arguing, just singing) It took us another hour to walk back to our hotel (with our two non-liverpool fan, no knowledge of football escorts) with all sorts of liverpool fans singing and cheering.
I've never seen anything like this, it's just insane the way these people love their teams, we're pretty sure people camped out in the square with their flags! We've heard tickets are going 2500 euros in some places, but we met a man last night who got a normally 200 euro ticket for 400 euros, so perhaps there is hope. One can only dream!
The swag is selling like nothing I've ever seen. The Brits drink like fish (we can walk around with open Heinekens everywhere, and let me tell you the square was covered with them!) Yesterday it rained at like 10pm, we arrived at the square (and it's a big square) at 12:30 and the entire square was sticky. How does that happen!??!?!? It's weird to walk by police in riot gear while drinking a beer! But the amount of money flowing into the city (and yes, they're dropping pounds, not euros) is crazy. I'll take plenty of pictures and videos! Watch for us on TSN :P
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