Might sound stupid, but I never really cared about football. Even though I’m playing it at least 3 times a week, watched more than 200 games in the stadium…it still is a kind of…boring game for me. I mean, the game itself, watching is…is pretty boring.
The only thing which makes me always freak out about it…is the feelings you can discover either playing or watching the game in the stadium.
Whereelse can you see a relatively calm guy like me shouting at sb (ref), kicking a corner flag…whereelse can you see people from whatever origin, race, class…singing, dancing together
Football…it’s more than 22 players running after a ball. It’s all about atmosphere!
And…unfortunately…in our times I must discover again and again that football, its atmosphere is killed by marketing or how many people call it “commercialisation”.
This Saturday I’ve been to one of the most known and biggest stadium of the world.
Wembley. Or better…Wembley II…because the real sentiments from the “real” Wembley…are partly gone.
A stadium which is impressive only by the size, by the shear capacity of 92.000 spectators…kills it whole sole…by….a way to “modern” outfit.
Why to people go to football stadiums? To see football? To see reality? To see perfectly shaped buildings? To see elevators all around a stadium? To see an entirely clear ground?
NOOOOO!
We- the real soccer fans- want to go there to escape reality, to feel dirt, to myth, to feel the ancient soul of a ground no more fitting in our “modern” society. For 90 or more minutes we want to betray ourselves.
Saturday…I betrayed myself again. But…by another way. Betraying myself by the hope that a soccer stadium can still wipe away your worries. It can, and can not.
Being in a soccer stadium with 85.000 other people, seeing the massive tribunes, hearing the national anthem, seeing the England cross….was very impressive…
But…how much more could it be if 85.000 stood up singing and partying as we were used to do 10 years ago? Without all those football junkies who don’t know anything about the soul of the game?!?
Football’s coming home,. Wembley still stays a place to go…but…a Parkstadion where you can get soaked by the rain…is of much higher value
JK
PS: England 4- Slovakia 0
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