We got the impression that football was important here, particularly when a huge screen went up outside our house along with the obligatory long tables, benches and plenty of beer that accompanies any event, sacred or secular. However, when satellite transmission was lost for 15 minutes during the Holland/France match, no one rushed home to their tellies - football is just another reason to get out the long tables, benches and plenty of beer, and celebrate in true Austrian style. Simon, in true English style, staggered home at 2.00am announcing that he'd just been sick in a field somewhere and that he thinks he might have kissed someone!
