Seen this about the mess they made with the security. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-18959672 Strikes me that this should have been the handling from day one, getting locals involved, giving money to the local economy, and credit the powers that be in Newcastle for getting a job done in 10 days that this multi-million pound company ****ed up despite having 2 years. Is anyone planning on going to any of the games at the Billboard Arena? What games are on there (the BBC fixture thing is horse ****, I wanna look at a list of fixtures, not a block of pissy times)
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/3823...-mens-football-draw-in-full-plot-every-teams- Mexico Vs Korea Republic Gabon Vs Switzerland and a quarter final I am surprised more of our fans are not going to the 1st game to see Ji, if I still lived up there I would be up for it, Sports Direct Arena or not. (they might be but stories of free tickets and some on here saying they would never set foot in the place)
What I don't get is all of the grounds which are being used for the football have match day stewards in place already, These guys know the ground have also been trained to deal with confrontations between fans much wosre than any thing we will see over the next two weeks, so why didn't they just hire the ground and its normal match day staff as a single package. Common sense, but as a i often say sense is never common!
I'm with you mate, I'd be there in a blink, it's got nothing whatsoever to do with SAFC v NUFC. Not the glammest of games mind...
I'd imagine that's what NUFC have done, although I think the club only employ people while the season is on, I'm sure these guys will be happy to help out.
The security was for a terrorist atttack I believe, not really to stop fans fighting. The security they have now wont have been trained in terrorism, the security the G4S was doing would have been I presume. The chances of a terrorist attack are slim to none anyway i would sumise, but probably better to have them and not need them, than to not have them and something happens. (apart from the cost)
It would be easy to give the lads who do the match days each week some extras training on terrorist risks rather than train new staff on both that and the running of the ground on a match day. I am sure the regular lads would have been happy with the extra money. Some one was saying that they were giving tickets away for some games any body know about this?
Over paid prima donna's.... Couldn't give a ****e, proffesional footballers should not be there... Some doing it for ulterior motives.....Oh i play football and get loads of dosh, national service, nah in my special case.
Ji still has to do national service unless they win it (which is a slim chance), and he has up to the age of 30 to start it. Amateur went out the window a long time ago, you think Ursain Bolt is an amateur? or any other athlete that is competing. The only sport I can think of that is totally restricted to amateurs, and that has a professional side where they cant compete, is the boxing, other than that, cant think of any at all.
South Korea probably know the chances of them winning it are slim, so why not give the players one hell of an incentive, pointless saying we will give you a bonus in cash as most will be loaded anyway, say we will waive the national Service and most will bust a gut and try 120% to win the thing, and if they do win it, then its a huge boost to South Korea, but if they dont, nothing lost, the players still have to do it.
Spain v Japan looks a very attractive game. Honduras bring through some very skilful players too, they'll be worth a watch
Me and all the kids have all been inundated with requests to have free tickets for the games at ASDA, but that is still far too expensive for us to even think about venturing into that place...I will only ever go there if Sunderland are playing..
Were showing all the GB games on a big screen at the club I work at. I hope a few people get behind it as we have some decent young players and we do actually have a chance of winning it.
I'm going to the Korea v Mexico game, partially to see Ji but mainly because it feels like ages since I was at a football game. Not bothered that it's at the SDA since the mags aren't involved.
