Football

I've always heard that Football(soccer for those of you who aren't hip and European :p) is much more popular in Europe compared to America.  My main experience with soccer was the few times I went to my little brother's soccer game, which was eight or ten years ago. Beyond that, even when my friends were watching the world cup this summer I don't think I saw more than 10 mins total. But when we'd been here for less than a week and Manchester City was here to play against the local Salzburg team, I decided I had to go.

Let's start with this. Manchester fans are crazy. We all piled into a bus with a ton of them as well. It took us 10 minutes or more for them just to get the bus doors closed so we could get moving. And the whole time the City fans were yelling and chanting and banging on the ceiling. Their chants ranged from just repetitions of "City, Manchester City" to really lewd ones. Possibly my favorite one they sang is below:

On away days, my girlfriend says

"Stay in bed and I'll give you head"
Sorry Love, I must refuse,

I'm off to see the Mighty Blues!

34 Years and we're still here
34 Years and we're still here
34 Years and we're still here

Lewd, right? But so funny. And so, about 10 mins(walking) from the stadium the bus broke down, I'm guessing from too many people. So we all had to walk the rest of the way, and the guys in front of us for some reason were singing Taylor Swift "Love Song" over and over again.

The actual game was pretty cool. We got student tickets and spent the first half standing at the back of all the crowds in the student section, but at half time we sneaked our way down to second row goal side. And that was amazing. Since the Salzburg team is sponsored by Red Bull we all got cardboard that was made to be folded into fans to be used as noise makers with large Red Bull Salzburg logo's on them. I didn't bring my camera but here are a few pictures others took at the game.

    

All photo's c/o Michelle M.