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yakalskovich) wrote2011-07-07 07:07 pm
yakalskovich) wrote2011-07-07 07:07 pm
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Football!!
... that is, soccer, for the Americans.-
We had got so pissed off at the mainstream media's sneering sexist coverage (domestic) or non-coverage (international) of the Women's World Cup, the Nazgul and I decided to go the nearest stadium and see a game. So, on Tuesday we went to Augsburg and saw Japan vs. England. We rooted for Japan because I once studied Japanese, and the Nazgul does Kendo.-
We got seats very high up, almost directly under the roof, even though we had ordered much further down. The system didn't quite work correctly. Our side of the stadium was full up, but the seats opposite were largely empty. Here you see Japan attacking the English goal during the first half, but they didn't score.
Here you see just how high up we were.
During half-time, these blue guys came and poked the turf around the goal.
Second half; Japan is attacking the English goal, but didn't score. That was a constant. The Nazgul, who knows lots more about football than I do, said the Japanese was definitely the better, stronger team, they simply failed to hit the goal. The English, on the other hand, had just two chances and scored both time.
During the second half, the sun was right in our faces. Here you see the Nazgul, peering down.
Here I am after the match, in my Japanese flag t-shirt. We made them especially.
The Nazgul, climbing down between rows. Our seats were all the way up there where the woman in the dark red shirt is standing.
Stadium in the evening sunshine, with people walking off.
The Nazgul bought a proper Japan fan shirt.
People streaming off to the tram station. The Augsburg transport company had that very well organised, ferrying everybody off to the train station smoothly. On tram after the other arrived, got filled, and left.
Then we went home, seeing the cutest thing ever on the platform in the station. There was a Japanese dad with his two-year-old daughter there, feeding her Bavarian leberkässemmel, when an English mum came with her about five-year-old daughter and asked to take a picture of the two little girls together. We awwwed a lot (and so did everyone around), but didn't take pictures as you really can't photograph other people's kids any more, even if that picture would be the cutest thing ever. Also, there wouldn't have been twenty people in the shot (unlike the stadium shots) which is the rough limit on the number of people that need to be in a picture taken in a public place for the individual becoming unable to sue over 'right to one's own likeness'. So, the day's best picture has to remain words-only.-
We had got so pissed off at the mainstream media's sneering sexist coverage (domestic) or non-coverage (international) of the Women's World Cup, the Nazgul and I decided to go the nearest stadium and see a game. So, on Tuesday we went to Augsburg and saw Japan vs. England. We rooted for Japan because I once studied Japanese, and the Nazgul does Kendo.-
We got seats very high up, almost directly under the roof, even though we had ordered much further down. The system didn't quite work correctly. Our side of the stadium was full up, but the seats opposite were largely empty. Here you see Japan attacking the English goal during the first half, but they didn't score.
Here you see just how high up we were.
During half-time, these blue guys came and poked the turf around the goal.
Second half; Japan is attacking the English goal, but didn't score. That was a constant. The Nazgul, who knows lots more about football than I do, said the Japanese was definitely the better, stronger team, they simply failed to hit the goal. The English, on the other hand, had just two chances and scored both time.
During the second half, the sun was right in our faces. Here you see the Nazgul, peering down.
Here I am after the match, in my Japanese flag t-shirt. We made them especially.
The Nazgul, climbing down between rows. Our seats were all the way up there where the woman in the dark red shirt is standing.
Stadium in the evening sunshine, with people walking off.
The Nazgul bought a proper Japan fan shirt.
People streaming off to the tram station. The Augsburg transport company had that very well organised, ferrying everybody off to the train station smoothly. On tram after the other arrived, got filled, and left.
Then we went home, seeing the cutest thing ever on the platform in the station. There was a Japanese dad with his two-year-old daughter there, feeding her Bavarian leberkässemmel, when an English mum came with her about five-year-old daughter and asked to take a picture of the two little girls together. We awwwed a lot (and so did everyone around), but didn't take pictures as you really can't photograph other people's kids any more, even if that picture would be the cutest thing ever. Also, there wouldn't have been twenty people in the shot (unlike the stadium shots) which is the rough limit on the number of people that need to be in a picture taken in a public place for the individual becoming unable to sue over 'right to one's own likeness'. So, the day's best picture has to remain words-only.-
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I was gonna add a smiley to that, but it's too true to really be funny.
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