saprissa
This entry was posted on 7/22/2008 9:53 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
I have little excitement for this game. I don't want to spend the time and money to get to SLC for what will in effect be a glorified reserve game. I completely understand why it will be a reserve game, why risk someone important to the team getting injured in the middle of the season during a meaningless friendly when you have a very meaningful game this weekend. Really, who cares if you win every friendly when you can't win the league?
I still don't want to go to RES either, but the next couple of games are during the week, which makes it near impossible for me to make it unless they do a late start. We'll see what happens.
I also know this is going to be another RES security disaster. Thankfully there aren't enough Saprissa fans here to make it into a Columbus/West Ham incident (still find it funny that 30 Hammers beat 100 Crew fans, but that's beside the point).
Security seems to think that the most loyal fans want to cause trouble all the time (China was the only time we intentionally caused a bit of an incident). Please! They are putting locks on doors to keep honest people out and
pissing off the ones who are there week in and week out spending the
most on merchandise, concessions, etc... the ones who reliably fill the seats.
Meanwhile Juan Douchebago (who supports Cruz Azul) just showed up and
decided to support Santos Laguna for the day (even though he normally hates
them) in a moment of jingoistic pride. He's never coming back again (unless another Mexican team is playing the gringos),
probably spent nothing in the stadium and he's picking fights, throwing
shit on the field and no security people care about him, because a kid holding a
scarf, standing and singing who's dropped a few hundred on his seats, jersey, scarf etc.
could maybe possibly be a hooligan (even though there is no logical
reason to think that is the case)
Stupid.
New England had a supporter group member thrown out for flipping opposing fans the bird, btw, security got the wrong guy....way to go dipshits. Started threatning other fans and actually escalated into a situation
where there were multiple ejections. There were security staff taunting
fans. Stupid. Similar things happened here last year when Chivas came and all their fans tried to cause problems with RCB. One guy was thrown out, because he got punched in the back and when he turned around to confront the problem, security threw him out because all the Chivas fans said he was the problem. The campus police officer even mentioned he to this member that he knew that our guy wasn't responsible, but he didn't want to have to take on 40 Mexicans.
Almost makes you wonder if MLS wants an major incident the way things get handled league-wide.
