Tag: fans

I’m not a fan

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I’ve had this photo for a while. It’s on an art walk (art??) in a forest near here. I’ve never been a patriot in the strictest sense even though I think there quite a few things I like about living in Germany.

As the football (sic!) world cup is underway at the moment it’s possibly a good time to post this. Although I’ve never been a rah-rah football fan, I watch the occasional match (more like the occasional 10 minutes) with my husband who would much rather watch rugby if it were on German televsion but he is interested having played football himself when he was young. However, I will not watch this world cup. I’m appalled at the whole corrupt system surrounding the cup, FIFA and the US. I am even more appalled by the politics by the United States, like forbidding entry to certain players from Iran or the fans of complete nations like Ivory Coast.

But if you want to wave flags, even the German one, here you go:

Thursday Trios

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Well, it happened …

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Lothar interviewed by the SABC

In 2015, my husband and I went to the Rugby World Championship in the UK.  We saw two games: South Africa vs. Samoa in Birmingham, and South Africa vs. Scotland in Newcastle.

It was an unexpected and unlikely coincidence that we met a cameraman working for the SABC in Birmingham while sightseeing in town, a day before the game.  It was quite unlikely that we would meet him again in Newcastle, this time with his whole team trying to catch interesting shots and interviews with fans, again a day before the game.  But the cameraman recognised my husband with whom he had talked for awhile privately a week earlier, and so he came to be interviewed by South African television. But it was even more unlikely that a South African friend actually saw the clip, barely a minute long, tucked away in a late-night special human interest slot about the RWC.

But the most unlikely would be if we ever see people dressed up more patriotic than the South African fans on this day.  The most impressive ones were the “cross dressers” – fans who combined Scottish and South African elements in their attire:

For The Daily Post: Unlikely.

More unlikely shots are linked here.

PS: Sorry, I can’t get rid of the second lot of picture. They don’t show up in editing mode.

Behind the Boks

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I was lucky to attend the game between the Scottish and  South African rugby teams in Newcastle in, part of the 2015 Rugby World Cup.  What better setting to take pictures of a very colourful crowd?  The Springbok supporters were out in full force.  Hats and make-up are a wonderful way to camouflage faces, aren’t they?

For The Daily Post Photo Challenge: a face in the crowd.

More faces and more crowds can be found here.