Michael Lewis's preview of US-Poland makes the point that the crowd in Kaiserslautern for tomorrow's match should be more pro-American than any match actually played in America. With 50,000-strong Rammstein Air Force base nearby (which is where the team is staying), and with the stadium a comfortable distance from the Polish border, the majority of the crowd will probably be loud, patriotic American soldiers and their families. Awesome.
My strong suspicion is that this won't translate even slightly to the match against Italy in June. The allottment for each country is pretty small, so the stadium will be dominated by neutrals. And in 2006, with Dubya as our president, I'm hardly confident that the neutrals will be with us. The South Koreans hated us and we hadn't even invaded Iraq at that point.
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