Manchester United was in town, and boy oh boy........football loving peeps here went totally berserk at the prospect of watching their idols up close.
Manchester United (MU) played a game against the Malaysian national squad on Saturday, July 18th 2009, as part of their pre-season warm-up Asian tour........with stops in Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea and China......
As the game was heavily advertized on all media, the 85.000 available tickets were snapped up in a blink of an eye.........and nope, this dude here wasn't intending to attend........I ain't sporting MU colours, never in this life time........
MU came, saw, and conquered Malaysia, albeit conceding 2 goals.............and were planning to resume their tour with their next stop, Indonesia.........
But terrorist activities, in Jakarta, sadly resulting in the loss of innocent lives, have required MU to cancel their Indonesian leg of their tour...........and as a bonus for the Malaysian populace, an additional game was scheduled...........
An ordinary Monday, with just 1 day in between the the scheduled and unexpected additional game ....., it was a bit too much to ask for the ordinary crowd to shell out their cash again to see this game.....
A few football teamm8's and me grabbed this chance with both hands and off we went to Bukit Jalil, National Stadium........
True enough, been to several stadiums in my life, and heard that the Nou Camp, San Siro in Europe are considered the walhalla's.......in terms of seating...(80 to 90k+), but this Malaysian stadium is able to pack up to 85.000......a mega-stadium indeed.
Even though prices were slashed for this impromptu game, attendance figures never went beyond 30.000 in my estimate and thus the game was played........
Suffice to say that MU made its superiority felt, and within 13 minutes it was 2-0 in favour of the Red Devils............, that was also the final score,.......could have been more, but heck, at least they had the courtesy to let Malaysia play along a bit........
The crowd obviously cheered for whatever in MU jerseys/colors appeared on the pitch (including the training staff) but undoubtedly the loudest cheers where for the Malaysian team.........too bad the Malaysian team couldn't emulate their heroics of 2 days ago as their fitness wasn't up to par I'd suspect and thus were quickly finished off before the game really properly started......
Reds beat Blues....(that's the away kit for the Malaysian squad, a bit strange......visitors get to wear their home kit, ........rolling out the red carpet for the Red Devils I'd dare say, literally.......)
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