Kerr Plunk

13th Oct 2005

Kerr-Plunk
Mickey Mouse

What a shambles. It was the type of night you feel like tossing the remote control at the screen in frustration. There you were all week thinking about Germany 2006. Seeing all those fans who traveled out to balmy Cyprus to see the Boys in Green had hearts thumping and mouths watering in anticipation of qualification.

LANGERS: You could have got up to all sorts of shenannigans with German beours like this at the World Cup. It'll have to be Santa Ponza again though...

Of all the World Cups this one was going to be the easiest to travel to. Japan and Korea were miles outside the budget of even the most enthusiastic soccer fan unless you were willing to re-mortgage your home and sell your car, wife and children. For those of us without homes to re-mortgage or children to barter Germany was the great hope - a most convenient location with low cost flights and the ease of booking accommodation online. Even taking a car all the way to Germany isn't outside the realms of possibility '