Saturday 28 March 2020

Ten Things We Hate And Ten Things We Love About Watching Thai Football by Paul Hewitt: 2009

Ten Things We Hate And Ten Things We Love About Watching Thai Football
by Paul Hewitt


We Hate...

1) Pitches that look like paddy fields stampeded by water buffalo.
2) Travelling to an away game in a bus without air conditioning...
3)...and being forced to listen to Thai pop music played so loud it makes the wax in your ears melt every kilometre of the way.
4) Constantly being photographed during a match because you're a foreign fan...
5) ...and then seeing the resulting photos splashed across various websites and Internet forums the next day.
6) Having to sit on haemorrhoid-inducing concrete steps in a roof-less, seat-less 'all-seater' stadium.
7) A 'club shop' that consists of a table with some shirts chucked on top.
8) Watching matches during the hot season.
9) Watching matches during the rainy season.
10) Halftime entertainment provided by scantily-clad dancing girls. This kind of thing demeans women and diminishes us all!



We Love...

1) Pitches that look like paddy fields that have been stampeded by water buffalo.
2) Travelling to an away game in a bus without air conditioning...
3) ...and being forced to listen to Thai pop music played so loud it makes the wax in your ears melt every kilometre of the way.
4) Constantly being photographed during a match because you're a foreign fan...
5)...and then seeing the resulting photos splashed across various websites and Internet forums the next day.
6) Having to sit on haemorrhoid-inducing concrete steps in a seat-less 'all-seater' stadium.
7) A 'club shop' that consists of a table with some shirts chucked on top.
8) Watching matches during the hot season.
9) Watching matches during the rainy season.
10) Halftime entertainment provided by scantily-clad dancing girls. This kind of thing demeans women and diminishes us all!



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