the East stand filled up pretty quickly
my view from the south stand
Good thing we were there early, because the players were entering the field to inspect the pitch and the bench area. very exciting! and very lucky because the liverpool bench is the one nearer to us. but fernando torres is nowhere to be seen. my brother was like,"eh? torres not here?" i was thinking, shit don't tell me he's injured. haha.
this is what i managed to zoom in. i can see carragher, mascherano, benayoun, johnson. where's Torres and Alonso and Reina??
the first half was rather dull. liverpool started very slowly. passing wasn't great, shots were not on target. when the referee blew the half time whistle, some guy in front went "OMG, my $44 is gone" hahaha. oh ya! some guy wore a Man Utd jersey! attention grabbing piece of crap. he kept standing up and pointing to his shirt and was all smiles. the name he wore was "owen 7", ok i agree that owen is still one of the liverpool greats, but man united shirt?? what an ass! hahhaa.
ok here comes the exciting part. the substitutes are warming up on the grass patch right in front of my section!! fernando torres did not appear until during the half time break, the stadium was screaming for him. and he joined in the warm up on the field.
now u know why i said our seats were rather good, because the subs are just down there warming up! i was so busy taking pictures n videos of Torres that i wasn't watching the match, one goal was scored while my eyes were on Torres. ppl around me were like "GOAL!!!" i was like, "huh? is it, oh ok". hahaha!!!
so exciting to see Torres in blood and flesh. hehe
oh yah, it was quite lucky that liverpool played from right to left in the first half, that is, attacking towards the north stand. because this will mean when liverpool is attacking towards the south in the 2nd half, and Torres comes on as a sub, he will be in the south area most of the time!!!! and true enough, he came on and we managed to see 30mins of him in action quite clearly. 4 goals were scored in the 2nd half, so we witnessed 4 goals in the south goalie area. woo hoo!!!
besides torres, the other player who received warm welcome was xabi alonso. the stadium was screaming "cha-bee a-lon-so!!", and received the loudest cheers when he came on and when he touched the ball everytime. i really hope he'll stay at anfield.
just some thoughts after reading several newspaper articles. some readers commented they were disgusted with the way people in the stadium were rooting for liverpool and showed no support for the singapore team.
eh, tickets for grandstand is $188, and the rest of the seats costs $88. do you think i paid $88 to support team singapore? excuse me, the event is being promoted as "The Kop Comes to Asia" and liverpool comes all the way from the UK and among the many asian countries, they chose singapore! its considered once in a lifetime opportunity, who knows when they will ever visit singapore again, and its not like i can just buy a ticket to Anfield, of cos i'll be supporting liverpool when they come rite?!
i don't understand what the fuss is abt, those ppl who said they felt disgraced by the love n support given to liverpool, instead of our national team. i mean, it is a EPL club vs a country friendly game. its not like its a country vs country international game, u know? if singapore plays against any country, then i will support singapore lah! i'm just saying, those ppl who paid for the expensive tickets went down to the stadium to do one thing, to see their favourite liverpool players in real life action. cheering for their idols is just natural what.
