Thursday 23 September 2010

Soccer in the Middle East




Andrew has been visiting the local evening soccer competition which includes teams from various regions of Doha and neighbouring Gulf countries. He has also decided to use this as an opportunity to do something special with a girl on their own. E was first to go and merely talked of the food. A seems the most interested in sport, however, and it seems that last night's game between Al Gharafa (where we live) and Al Hilal, Saudi Arabia did not disappoint. Apparently, it ended with both coaches being red carded and the riot police trying to control 5000 passionate Saudi and disgruntled Qatari players and fans. You can see from the crowd photos here that difficult spectators could be hard to identify as they were all men wearing either white thobes or blue for team colours!

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