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I finally managed to get wrangle a couple of tickets to my first “footy” match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Apart from the fiasco at trying to get to the much in-demand match between Collingwood and Hawthorn match, it was relatively easy to get tickets to this one. And why not, with the rains, the Olympic opening ceremony and the miniscule expectations from the Melbourne Demons (who are at the bottom of the ladder at the moment) against the guys at the top. The first glimpse of the hallowed green is surely a moving sight for any Indian cricket lover. Some of the greatest moments in cricket history have been made at this very venue.
After a relatively calm day at work, I picked the guys (Nikhil, Sunny and Arun) up from Carinya. We took a train into the city (my first in over a year now) reminiscing about politics, movies, world terrorism and then some more! We took our time figuring out where our seats were… not that it really mattered much, with only about 36,000 people there, we could have taken our pick of seats. We could still see quite a lot of empty seats and thats gives you an idea of how huge the stadium really is (this place now holds about 100,000 people). The energy was pretty good with it being only a quarter full, so you could tell it’d rustle a terrific atmosphere when full.
Geelong slaughtered Melbourne that day. And it was fun to watch Nick’s clean and fair team show us how its really done. We hung around for a couple of pictures for posterity sake before we headed home. All in all an entertaining evening giving me an insight into an aspect of Australian culture that could otherwise so easily get overlooked.
Image Credit: The official ‘G’ Site & Sunny
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