Football...

Last day of the Premier League season today and I've got two matches playing simultaneously on my computer. I shall be watching Chelsea v Bolton and Wigan V Man Ure to determine who wins the title and I shall be keeping up with other scores to see which two of Reading, Fulham and Birmingham will be relegated.

While the season is winding down in the UK, it's in full-swing here in Korea and today I took the kids to the Seoul World Cup Stadium to see FC Seoul v Incheon United.

There were around 29,000 fans there (probably a lot more since the number of fans is presumably based on tickets sold and they were letting in juniors for free if they had a special voucher and also all under-6s go for free without any ticket at all) so the atmosphere was quite good.

Before the match started the fans rolled out the ubiquitous giant banner...
Then some chanting and fireworks to get us underway...

The match was very open with opportunities for both sides (although the strikers for both teams were decidedly average so not as many goals as there might have been). The main striker for FC Seoul is Ju-Young Park (박주영), who I think is extremely over-rated. In some ways he is like Christiano Ronaldo (think the posing and the arrogance), while in others he is not (think talent). Nevertheless, he is very popular with the FC Seoul fans judging by the number of people who have his name and number on their shirts. The great thing about watching these games, as I've mentioned before, is that the kids go in for free and my ticket is just 8,000won and therefore it doesn't stress me out if they're not foucssing on the game all the time, or if they're even distracting me from watching the game. In actual fact they quite enjoyed today and watched most of the match. They clapped along to the chants at some points and danced a little when there was music...