football rambles

 Another Korea scarf and one that probably saw a few games at the Seoul World Cup Stadium. I think that I wore the one that featured previously more regularly for FC Seoul games as it was more red and black than red and blue - like this one, which was the one I tended to wear for the national team. Going back to the issues with merchandise at stadiums, I think that I actually bought this from a shop of random things in Itaewon, probably in late 2005 or early 2006. The colours are more like the real deal on this one, although the red yin to the blue yang is a bit lost on a red background.

  I could probably done with a warmer scarf today, but it serves me right for missing yesterday! Today we have a South Korea scarf, which I believe I bought at a 3-1 home defeat to Ghana which was actually after  the team had played in the World cup in Germany. As you can see there is also a badge on the scarf which is an FC Seoul  badge that the Ultras gave us. At the time Korea was one of those countries that the Premier League was clamouring to sell merch to, but oddly the K League seemed pretty poor at doing it for their own clubs. It might have been that FC Seoul were a fairly new club having taken the place of Anyang Cheetahs a couple of years ago, but I also went to a few away games and in general merchandise seemed to be a few scarves, t-shirts, badges and knock-off replicas, which as Man United were so keen on selling shirts seems a bit odd. Anyway, I had some great days out in the K League and at the national team games.