I'm not complaining about anything the Peruvians are doing tbh, their footballing culture and supporter culture is hewn from the South American competitions from the National team level down. If NZ were Chile or Argentina, they'd be getting exactly the same serve from them right now.
Martin was a dipshark by highlighting their hostility, knowing it would get picked up by their media and spun into a huge story. It also lets them say that 'well, you asked for it'.
He was an even bigger dipshark asking New Zealand, a country with a footballing culture that is barely out of the petri-dish, to animate itself into some sort of impersonation of that South American rivalry and hostility that accompanies the game.
If they'd come over and NZ had presented the friendly, open, cheerful face it did to Peruvians over last weekend - then our reputation would have been a lot better in Peru than it probably is. The supporters undid a lot of the damage Martin did last weekend, shame we couldn't stop him stopping them bringing in instruments.
AND THEY'D STILL HAVE DONE EVERYTHING THEY ARE DOING.
Jets flying by, native healers putting curses, fireworks. I bet the players are loving this - it's 100% proper do or die stuff.
Vamos Nueva Zelanda!
O yes and certain human rights lawyers from Peru sending weeping messages of horror that we would stoop to low ways to welcome their team. The mind games started right back at that point.
