Sunday, September 06, 2009
English eccentrics and websites
I gotta say the English are a funny bunch. When they're not getting shitfaced and vomitting in people's front gardens they have a wierd and wonderful collection of interests. They travel miles round the country to stand on wet and windy railway platforms to make note of railway engine numbers. They dress up in period costumes and re enact historic battles.
Expats do much the same thing. For many life abroad is little more than an excuse to sit on a bar stool and spout shite about the adopted country. Wives get involved in the British Womens Association, where they go round a member's house, talk about the poor people they know then go home and slag off their host.
Then there is another breed who take their eccentricities with them. By starting websites on their adopted football team in their new land.
Chonburi by a guy named Dale who has only missed one home game in the club's history
Bangkok Glass
Nakhorn Ratchasima
I even know of one guy who donated his small collection of Asian football shirts and scarves to a bar in South Jakarta...
UPDATE - no sooner do I post this than the sun rises in England and another space in the blogosphere becomes eternally Thai. Thai Port this time...
Expats do much the same thing. For many life abroad is little more than an excuse to sit on a bar stool and spout shite about the adopted country. Wives get involved in the British Womens Association, where they go round a member's house, talk about the poor people they know then go home and slag off their host.
Then there is another breed who take their eccentricities with them. By starting websites on their adopted football team in their new land.
Chonburi by a guy named Dale who has only missed one home game in the club's history
Bangkok Glass
Nakhorn Ratchasima
I even know of one guy who donated his small collection of Asian football shirts and scarves to a bar in South Jakarta...
UPDATE - no sooner do I post this than the sun rises in England and another space in the blogosphere becomes eternally Thai. Thai Port this time...
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I wish some British expats took interest in the local football clubs here in Nepal :-)
But I remember my days in Bangkok going to the Hockey stadium (next to MBK) to watch league matches. There were about 25 people at each of the games. 24 were friends and family of the players and then there was the one funny faced Indian looking boy - me.
But I remember my days in Bangkok going to the Hockey stadium (next to MBK) to watch league matches. There were about 25 people at each of the games. 24 were friends and family of the players and then there was the one funny faced Indian looking boy - me.
what sort of interest is there from the nepalese? what sort of crowds do they get there for league games?
you'd be surprised. Nepal is like Indonesia - we're filled with football nutcases like myself.
League matches are pathetically scheduled, at off times and all held at a single venue in Kathmandu, yet on average I would say attendance is quite good around 2-3,000 per game. Weekend games get around 6-8K and the big clashes get around 15-20,000.
Cup tournaments around the country are usually sold-out at the semi-final and final rounds. You'll have people climbing trees to watch the cup ties.
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League matches are pathetically scheduled, at off times and all held at a single venue in Kathmandu, yet on average I would say attendance is quite good around 2-3,000 per game. Weekend games get around 6-8K and the big clashes get around 15-20,000.
Cup tournaments around the country are usually sold-out at the semi-final and final rounds. You'll have people climbing trees to watch the cup ties.
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