Well, don`t want this website to become to much like Fever pitch, although I`d love to watch that much football, but saw a rather entertaining if not bizarre game in Kobe... Kobe are hardly living up to their name, `the vessel to take us to victory`, hence Vissel, although they are playing quite well and although early look good enough to beat the the drop they were predicted to get before the season began... Anyway, after a day out in Kobe, I thought a nice way to spend the evening would be to watch some good quality football...
Usually, I prebook tickets. Its cheaper. Plus, you can tell on the screen exactly where your seats are. I like to sit in the middle because you can see more. However in Japan things are a little different as if you sit in the middle its really quiet, and the supporters up either end seem to have lots more fun! Anyway, to cut a long story short bought the cheapest seat I could... turns out it wasn`t where we sat the time before (also a 1-1 draw), so I moved around to the next gate... For those who have seen Fever Pitch (Colin Firth amongst others), you may remember a great scene where a young Firthy heads to a FA cup match against Reading. Trouble is, his Mum bought the ticket and he has to sit with the Reading supporters, not the Arsenal ones. Whilst not having my mum to blame for this, I ended up in the same predicament, as the only Kobe supporter in that end of the ground...
Not the most fun I have decided... Those gigantic flags are no good at all. Even worse as they waved them directly in my line of vision and cut out 25% of the pitch... scumbags!
Highlight of the evening was no doubt (there were a few, a 35 yd screamer for 1) was a goal keeper who mysteriously got shot as Kobe were about to score. He came screaming out of his box, kicked the ball into touch. Trouble was, the guy grabbed the ball and threw it in whilst he was 20 yds outside his box... No rules broken so far... so, as the striker was about to shoot he fell over with no one around and the ref was stupid enough to fall for it and stopped the game! Incensed that a fellow player would shoot a goalkeeper, the striker who was about to shoot gave him one of the nastiest sprays i`ve ever seen (could see the veins from 90 yards away!) and the ref told him off! As the stretcher came on the field, he miraculously got up and ran back to the goals! First time i`ve seen a Japanese crowd get fiery and throw things at other people... was great... except that the cheat got away with it... No wonder some people hate the game!
Anyway, the vissell rolls on and picks up more points... looks like a tight season so every little bit helps... maybe next week they`ll play a team without a cheat for a keeper or have a ref that isn`t deaf, dumb blind or stupid! Only one is likely!
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