Greece (Sakis Rouvas to be precise) made a very well received appearance in this years Esc. Well received, meaning an appearance cut and tailored to measure this so – called European competition that requires all of the contestants to look the same. The most important features of the songs were the lights, the movements, the strange and the impressive. And all of the songs were sung in English, although in most of them you can't make out more than one or two phrases from the lyrics.

Nevertheless, although we gave it all, although we were well received (even by the Turks) we didn't win the first place (and if you lose with Sakis, what other chances have you got?). We lost because of the North peoples alliances (but that doesn't mean a thing, we have our own alliances with Cyprus, so we are no strangers to that).

The third place that Sakis got was not of course to be looked down but it wasn't the first either. And thank God for that. Can you imagine what would have happened otherwise? For a really long time we would have no other subject of discussion. Sakis would have become our … national hero and "Shake it" our national anthem. For a whole year we would be "preparing" for the competition on our soil.

And all these for what? To give hospitality to songs without a trace of ethnic qualities? To hear songs without origin and identity? To hear songs that will only last a day and then will be forgotten because they lack substance?

Translator's notes:

This guy has a problem with the whole concept of Eurovision. I was really looking forward to hearing his suggestions about how a European Song Contest should be, but guess what? He never gave any.