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It was 6am, still bleary eyed, we set off for Leipzig to catch our group game between France and Korea Republic. After a 3.5 hour train ride we made it to Leipzig to wonderful old world architecture and great friendly people.


While in Leipzig, we had to check out the St Thomas Church, where Johann Sebastian Bach is laid to rest.
We managed to get through the throngs of people out in their teams colours and into Fanfest in time to catch the opening match of the day, Croatia vs Japan. This one ended goalless, but I was cheering for Japan.

Andy putting on his war paint.

After the Japan match we headed down to the stadium hoping that we would get to see the Australia Brazil match. Thankfully they showed it on the screens at the stadium.


Our seats were pretty sweet. Front row of the first tier almost on the half way line. We did have a camera man to our right, but being front row, he was out of the way.

We changed into the appropriate strip, and sat back to enjoy the France v Korea match, overall, it was a bit scrappy but France we're much the better team. After seeing Japan draw and Australia loose, all without scoring, I was itching to celebrate a goal. When it finally came I'd almost run out of energy to celebrate, but the red half of the crowd went ballistic, even the old Germans behind us (who were supporting Korea) were raucous.




You'd be forgiven for thinking Korea won given these street celebrations.