Socc, er.... Football

Or my god what a pathetic effort.

You may have heard of a football team called Manchester United? Well they were coming to little old Southampton for a quarter final FA cup match. With Southampton likely to be relegated from the premier league and Man U unable to win another trophy it was expected to be a pretty good match (both teams putting all on the line). And we got tickets!!

Well strictly speaking we did not get tickets, but an ex-work colleague of Jules got us tickets so we were pretty chuffed.

The game was starting at 5:15, so we left the house about 4:30 to walk over. The stadium holds about 32000 people and it was a sellout match so the streets were packed with a heap of people walking to the match.

Because we got our tickets late we were not sitting together, but that was okay with all the noise and chanting and songs and swearing and yelling at the ref there was no way we could have talked to each other anyway.

Being a quasi Southampton local and an Australian I felt it was my duty to go for the underdog team (which was Southampton). But I was to be disappointed with the game being pretty much over within the first two minutes when Keane (thanks Kurt) from Man U scored the first goal. Southampton played poorly and Man U outclassed them in every respect.

The Man U supporters were confined to one part of the stadium and "protected" by a shitload of police. They chanted for the entire match (I think they put more effort in then the Southampton players).

The final score was 4-0, but it was still an awesome experience!



Walking to the match



Crowd shot one



Crowd shot two



Warm up



He shoots...


He scores!