Stadium.

Thanks everyone for the concern about my back. It didn’t hurt that badly today, and I hope to keep it that way.

Anyway I was at the Hong Kong Stadium for the match between Hong Kong and Yemen. The match wasn’t the best of matches (well, to be absolutely honest, matches involving Hong Kong are usually not very pretty, for the Hong Kong fans at least), but I thought that lads did alright. Besides the point that they couldn’t get a goal, I thought the players were fine. I guess when you are talking about a group of players who did not receive proper football education since young, to ask them to play 110%, string perfect passes, beat opposition defenders and scoring goals from anywhere inside the penalty box were surely too much a tall order. I saw the Hong Kong lads play with much gusto and confidence. They tried to string passees together, do some build-ups, and I think that wasn’t too bad – for me that was definitely worth a pass.

I realized today that I could actually sell my World Cup tickets – yes I bought them – and right now I’m seriously contemplating not going South Africa for the World Cup because it’s crazy to fork out $20,000 to get there and stay there for a few days. If I manage to sell those tickets away, I could probably have a nice little holiday somewhere else. If you are interested in any of the three matches below, drop me a note and I can see how I could transfer those tickets to you (apparently it has to be done via FIFA):

– Opening match: South Africa vs Mexico
– Holland vs Denmark
– Brazil vs North Korea

I’ve got two tickets to each match, by the way.

Sis told me that a check with the travel agencies revealed that the entire Hong Kong will be in Seoul for the Easter holidays as air tickets and hotel packages are almost full – what’s with you Hong Kong people?! Can’t you lot go somewhere else instead? Leave Seoul alone, OK?!