One lonely soccer fan...

[thomas]

Found the story at sankei.co.jp: the City of Osaka offered free accommodation to British and Nigerian soccer fans who were supposed to flock to the town in order to support their national teams, totally 300 beds. Below you see a pic of the only fan who actually showed up at the facility, a British guy by the name of Michael Monday. He must have felt very lonesome...

 

[moyashi]

ughh .... I wonder how much Japan spent for the World Cup?

Much talk has been about how this investment was supposed to help the economy but ... it looks like the construction companies and police made out like bandits.

Mr. Monday must of at least enjoyed the bit of notriety!

 

[deborah gormley]

That poor fella, no company to watch the match :sorry:


as for the economy, maybe the figures will not be released until after this enormous event, it must have boosted the economy somewhere, the total amount of people as visitors alone plus the increase of sales of items such as foods, beverages hehe and merchandise from the country should have made an impact somewhere, host countries to such enormous events have planned and prayed for acceptance of such events simply because of the impact to the economy, Japan should be no different, maybe they don't want to advertise the boom yet for fear of it slowing down, or the facts and figures that they hoped for were too high, (just a thought on the economy issue).



As for the money Japan and Korea has spent on the world cup preparations, It must be a figure that I cant only dream about,

 

[moyashi]

1 good point though is that I can watch the games almost everyday and the Tokyo Giants no longer monopoligize TV news!

I'm a Hashin Tigers fan and can't stand seeing on Giants news up here in Sapporo. We might get the Nippon Ham Fighters though.

lolo ... off topic a bit

 

[moyashi]

oops he did have some companionship .... a kitty cat

 

[Jupernia]

Ahh, poor guy, I hope he and the kitty cat got along nicely, and I hope he had fun.

 

[thomas]

I just read they offered 300 beds to fans of each nation, so we have a total of 600, err, empty 599 beds (let's not forget Michael Monday!).

Btw, that's a porcelain kitty.

 

[TomAsInfinity]

Come on, thomas, are you forgetting this is Japan?! Even porcelain kitties will purr and require feeding and attention!

 

[deborah gormley]

lolol

 

[thomas]

HAR, HAR, HAR...... unbelievable!


A Michael Munday fan site.....

https://web.archive.org/web/20021016121549/http://members.tripod.co.jp/monday2ch/english.htm

What the press didn't tell us: he was NOT alone!

 

[deborah gormley]

hahaha, brilliant Thomas,

I recommend checking out those pics 57 was hilarious,

 

[samuraitora]

too funny