great days football
Piss poor croud number. Chch hang your head in shame. A pathetic effort.
6000 odd was a poor effort.
However it is the least attractive group in the comp.
Obviously Germany are a team people will want to see -
But as for the rest - not appealing to the public.
Only those with football knowledge realise Honduras will play attractive football, but not the general public here.
Fiji and Uzbekistan unfortunately hold no appeal either to football fans or the general public.
My heart sank when I heard that Fiji were in the group during the draw - and then having Uzbekistan also was not good news.
I hated Germany's rout of Fiji - it wasn't entertaining to see a side that was basically not even top ASB Premiership level humiliated like that.
Uzbekistan are a decent enough side (from one of the top five football nations in Asia over the last four years) - but unfortunately the public doesn't know that (the ignorance compounded by our isolation from the Asian confederation).
Even a mate of mine who's a local player (currently out injured) took his kids off to Dunedin for the games there over the long weekend.
Much more appealing.
Ticket sales apparently have been very good for the last day of group games in Christchurch, Germany v Honduras and Brazil v North Korea. Those two games are actually appealing to people.
I know a lot of people holding out until then to see games.