Friday, January 11, 2008
Copa Indonesia Final
Sunday sees the Copa final at Bung Karno kicking off at 7 pm.
Before that there is the 3rd/4th place Play Off between Persija and Pelita Jaya.
Yesterday the second game, Sriwijaya v Pelita didn't kick off till 7.30 because of the pitch invasion from Persipura fans celebrating their teams' victory then realising there were 50,000 pissed off Persija fans outside and refused to leave.
Hopefully we don't get the same nonsense on Sunday but all that sitting around gave me a numb bum!
There is a case for having the fixtures played simultaneously at seperate venues. There may be a case but there aren't two large enough stadiums in Jakarta to handle it. Bung Karno holds 89,000, yesterday there was about 64,000, while Lebak Bulus is marginally bigger than my mate's kitchen with 12,500
Before that there is the 3rd/4th place Play Off between Persija and Pelita Jaya.
Yesterday the second game, Sriwijaya v Pelita didn't kick off till 7.30 because of the pitch invasion from Persipura fans celebrating their teams' victory then realising there were 50,000 pissed off Persija fans outside and refused to leave.
Hopefully we don't get the same nonsense on Sunday but all that sitting around gave me a numb bum!
There is a case for having the fixtures played simultaneously at seperate venues. There may be a case but there aren't two large enough stadiums in Jakarta to handle it. Bung Karno holds 89,000, yesterday there was about 64,000, while Lebak Bulus is marginally bigger than my mate's kitchen with 12,500
# posted by Me @ 6:44 AM 
