2025-03-05

[Groundhopping] Hwaseong FC vs Chungnam Asan 1-1

πŸŸ§πŸ¦‰ Hwaseong FC vs Chungnam Asan 1-1
πŸ† K League 2
🏟️ Hwaseong Sports Complex
πŸ—“️ 2025-03-02
πŸ•‘ 14:00
🎟️ 10000 KRW
πŸ‘₯ 3731
πŸ” Sundae(Korean blood sausage) 5000 KRW

✍️ Hwaseong's first ever professional match played on their soil. An historical moment for a city of 1 million, with the mayor's speech and fireworks and everything. While getting some scran I overheard some people talking about the last match. 'The city had prepared a lot for the away game, they even gathered all the civil servants to a send a crowd of thousand.' I thought it was funny but I already should've noticed that, let me say… this wasn't the club with the most fervent fans.
First off, clap sticks handed out to the supporters! By returning it you little fridge magnet with the matchday info. You see, this club don't really have a supporter culture yet. The ones trying to rally the crowd were the cheerleaders and a small group of middle-aged people with Korean drums. They tried their best but weren't very persuasive to the side I was sitting on. (Actually I was on the wrong row when taking that 1st pic)
It rained on the 2nd half so they opened the 2nd floor. This place is pretty big with 35 thousand seats. No roof for the away fans, despite being just a 5-year-old club they were quite well organised with their support.
This ended up more like a ramble, was I too harsh to a club that just turned professional? I have just 2 games left to be their number 1 fan on Futbology, anyway. πŸ˜…

2025-03-01

To Munich & Madrid

This and the previous 7-0 were a bit inspired by the Vienna Secession posters I saw at the National Music of Korea.
The guy is Larry Lloyd, RIP.

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. The background is vertically divided into 3 parts—a white centre that covers half of the canvas with two red sides. Larry Lloyd stands in the centre and smiles down as he holds up a giant Champions League trophy above his head. White radial lines come out of the trophy on top of the red parts, which stretches down to form a star shape on each end of the bottom of the canvas. Below Larry is a small Forest crest with the text 'TO MUNICH & MADRID' in all caps.