Bern Young Boys vs. Wallis FC Sion

Last night was the Swiss National Soccer (aka Fussball) championship between the Bern Young Boys and Wallis FC Sion. The evening started when I was simply trying to go home from work on the bus. They announced that my bus would not be heading to the Zytglogge as usual. So we all had to get off the bus at Viktoriaplatz and take the 9 tram down the hill into town. Just as the tram hit the bottom of the hill, we stopped while 1000's of YB fans marched through town hooting and hollering and blowing off HUGE firecrackers and smoke bombs. Trams are completely stopped in both directions. We sat there for a full 10 minutes before the tram driver "allowed" us off the tram. At some point, he must have thought, huh, all the other trams have stopped, and there are drunk people as far as the eye can see. Ok, I'll open the doors now I suppose.

This was the tail end of it. I obviously missed most of it because the tram driver wouldn't let us off. Perhaps, for our safety. Maybe I should look at it that way. Huh. Very helpful the Swiss. Safety safety!





After dinner, Asish says we should head down the the Bundesplatz to check out all the football hooligans. I'm thinking, whatever they're all still at the game so what could be so interesting about the Bundesplatz. Well, as you can see, HUGE TV with the game on, people trying to sneak in and out, police beating down on people (politely of course, it's the Swiss way). And there is a layer of glass covering the ground every which way we went.

By morning, there was no sign anything had happened at all. The Bern Young boys lost.