With a clear sky, a warm night and lots of celebrating Portuguese fans congregating around Nyon railway station, the party atmosphere was infectious at the start of Wednesday evening. This encouraged the Swiss fans walking down to the UBS Arena for their big important match.
Eveyone looked hopeful and when Switzerland scored the first goal, and the celebrations continued, at least for the first 40 minutes or so.
Sadly, whenTurkey scored a second time, the atmosphere changed to desperation and frustration, and the walk back up the hill from the arena was a walk of real sadness compounded by the fact that the rain had now come on thick and fast, as if things couldn’t get any worse.
Being the cosmoplitan town this is though, there were bound to be some fans somewhere celebrating and true enough there were some Turkish fans in the centre of town chanting and waving flags.
The UBS Arena is a good place to watch the match with beer and food tents next to the 1,900 free standing places and a good atmosphere guaranteed.
It’s just a shame the right result isn’t guaranteed also.
GenevaLunch, 12 June 2008.
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