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Got up Thursday 26th June 2014 at 8:30am.

Couldn’t be ****ed with Breakfast headed out with the gear sorted about 9:15am. Plan was to take the Metro to the city have a look around and then head out to the Stadium for the Belgium Korea clash in the evening.
Got a taxi easily and then took 1 hour 45mins to drive 5km to the closest Metro Station. A drawback of our nice hotel was its distance to the Metro.
I will never complain about traffic again. I wasn’t even ****ed by breakdowns accidents etc The traffic here is 100x worse than anything in Australia. I was bemused people even own cars here. Why???
It makes no sense
Got in bought the ticket $R3 for anywhere on the system.
15mins later and I was out in the city centre of SP
Had a couple of hours walking around seeing the sights. Place is a concrete jungle with people everywhere. Cannot begin to describe how crowded it is.
Did see 2 bizarre things though
1 Some bloke walking along the footpath just pushed someone overcoming the other way for some reason. No one rushed to help as the other fella walked off
2 Was propositioned by about a dozen whores outside a church at Midday. Now I never understood what they were saying but they ain’t dressing that way and approaching you with the come here big boy lets **** look on their face if they ain’t
Rather bizarre having it occur outside a church though
Decided to jump on the metro again and head out to the stadium
Had to meet an Aussie at 3pm to on sell the extra ticket I had for the game. Whilst waiting for him I was glad he told me he would be wearing his Socceroos top
It was easy to spot in the crowd of people wearing Brazil NT tops. I decided to do the smart thing and wear the E&C which made me standout and he was able to find me.
Turns out the bloke is1 of the 8 Melburn Heart fans on the planet. Headed to the ground got in and had a good chat over some beers before the game.
Head in 30 mins before kick off and scope the ground out. Not impressed it just doesn’t look like a great ground. It looks bizarre like a 3sided ground with palm trees
For the money that has been spent it looks shut. It will be even worse when they take 20k of temporary seat out.
Speaking of the temporary seats well that is where we were so headed up there after grabbing a beer 5mins before kick off.
The food drink aspect of this ground is 100 out of 10 for efficiency.
Best I have seen by a long way.
Take up the seat 40rows back in the top tier. Must have been about 50m above the pitch and 60m behind the goal. At first it was a novelty being that high up but it wore thin quickly. Basically the only bloke you could recognise was Fellani from the bonce. Was such a disconnect from the game it was hard to follow.
Did spend a bit of time noticing how many empty seats there actually was which was bizarre cause this game was Nihon impossible to get tickets for. I had to resort to 2nd hand and even then the supply of that was slim.
What was also bizarre was how many empty seats in great spots were decommissioned for TV cameras which were halfway up the lower tiers and not built onto the stands at the back. I reckon at least 800 seats were wasted.
Being so far away it was hard to let Ben Williams know I was here. He did though endear himself to a pile of Belgians for sending off one of their players just before HT for god knows what because the Hubble telescope even with the new lenses wouldn’t have helped me.
HT we went and moved. We had spotted plenty of empty seats at a low level and decided to just help ourselves to one of them.
Only problem was every time we walked into the stand we ended up in the top level. We eventually found our way to the lower tier and were unable to access our chosen seats as it happened to be the blocked off hospitality seats.
Found some other seats and got the first 15mins in before the owner returned and we had to depart. Ended up going and watching the game from the concourse behind the goal St Korea attacked in the 2nd half. The view was 10000000 times better than our actual seats even though we had to peer over everyone’s shoulders
Belgium despite having the 10men jagged a 1-0win from a highly disappointing South Korea side
Even the Jets could have beaten a side as impotent as them
Headed back to the metro at FT and finally boarded after a long weight.

Pickpocket paradise for 20mins until the train emptied enough. Got out at the closest station and got a cab back to hotel which only took 10mins but went by fast as WLG and I were banging away on Facebook at the time.

Got back to Hotel at 8:30-9pm dumped the gear and headed out for dinner and some beer. Made it back just after midnight before hitting the hay