(Boycott) Coca Cola International Rules…
Today was the day! The “Coca Cola International Rules” took place in Croke Park! Quite a nice stadium and fecking huge: it has a capacity of 82000 people, which makes it the fourth biggest stadium in europe! The thing was sold out but we bought out tickets in advance - to scale the legendary Hill 16! Mattia and Roberto joined me but we ended up in some other block next to the Hill. Not a big deal - the Hill seemed to be more or less the same as our Nally Terrace! What we saw then was pure cruelty! Ireland was humiliated by the Aussies! Well, I had no idea about the rules and stuff, but it was quite obvious that the Australians had total control over the game and that the Irish team kind of sucked! Accordingly, the crowd was not that enthusiastic as expected. Anyhow - it was an interesting experience, but I am quite sure that I will not fall in love with this game. Had some funny moments though - the game was 3 seconds old as the first players started pushing each other - peaking in a nice fight - big time! The referees were hardly interested in that - I mean - from a “soccer” point of view, this would have been a flood of red cards! But yes, its international rules - a respect thingy at the beginning of a game! Probably…..
Anyways - the final score was 69:31 for the Aussies! Bing! And always remember: Boycott Coca Cola!
more can be found here:
http://ograshinnfein.blogspot.com/2006/11/killer-coke-exposed-at-gaa-aussie.html