2009-07-26 Sun 10am - The Football Stadium Ride

Football fans are bonkers out there. Mrs G and I had 2 months in Argentina and Chile last year (Nov and Dec). Didn't get to go to La Bombanera but did get to go see River Plate vs Huracan at El Monumental, and then got back to BA just before Christmas and blagged tickets for the final play-off game (the play-offs were between 3 teams) between Tigre and Boca at Avellaneda (Tigre won on the night but Boca took the Apertura on aggregate).

Couple of my mates were over there DJing about 12yrs ago, they were taken to Boca v River Plate by the owners/promoters of the club. Said the whole day was charged to fuck, got to the ground 2 hrs before and the place was heaving....baking hot and everyone in shorts, flip flops and tops off...and they were the 'lads'!
They were in the ground 30mins before KO and the place was packed, singin, argy bargy with the away fans etc then suddenly the whole stadium started singin this particular song, away fans too, everyone jumping up and down in time and they could feel the stadium shake. There Argentinian hosts said to them "Keep your head down" and escorted them to the back of the stadium...
My mate asked what was up...
Apparently the whole stadium was singin an anti English song with lyrics such as "Kill the English pigs...."We shit on the English" etc...

Which was nice