Hello,

How much maximum would you pay to watch a local soccer club match live at a stadium?
- How about a Super eagles friendly match?
- How about a nations cup match being played in Nigeria?

Thanks.

I should watch it for free- do you know who i am

depends on the stadium and who they are playing

I'm not  a football-fan. I even think its a punishment when my cousin makes me watch football on TV with him, so i guess my maximum price will be 0,00naira = $0,00 = £0,00

Its not my fault, its just who i am

Could it be that very few Nigerians watch football with their pockets rather than with their mouths?

Here's an interesting article about the soccer experience in Lagos:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/25/LVGQTJJ1DE1.DTL&hw=dan+hoyle&sn=012&sc=160

To watch the Super Eagles? well for my safety and comfort, I could pay 5,000 naira to watch them, ditto for a nations cup game

for the local league, 200 naira, maybe 1,000 if it was Enyimba vs Ocean Boys

insecurity and rowdiness are the things that would discourage me, along with poor quality of football

if those are corrected, I will be very interested.

I heard they pee in bottles and throw it down at those sitting below.

Also fans don't pee in the urinals, they erm do the number two inside.

There is nothing like watching the super-Eagles play at the national stadium.It's always funny.I can pay as much as they pay 2 watch the CL final to watch Eagles play against Cameroon or Ivory Coast.

The sky surges orange red and releases thick, warm streams of water. Lightning cracks overhead and the crowd thunders back. The hat vendor, who was having a tough time of it at a night game (no sun), springs to life. "Hundred naira, hundred! Your cap! Collect your cap!" he yells, hopping from one foot to the other like Rumpelstilt- skin. Oranges, single cigarettes (smoked collectively by the crowd, passed down the row a drag at a time), pictures of politicians, boxes of hot jollof rice and yes, peanuts, are on sale.

No one gets shorted. Little girl vendors sling a plastic-wrapped handful of peanuts up 20 rows, then wait as the grubby bill makes its way down. People who don't pay are slapped on the head and squirted with water by the 20 closest people until payment is made. The strict enforcement of honesty stands in stark relief to Nigeria's notoriety as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Call it black-market morality.

The bag water is the most popular item -- it's the most fun to throw. Fans in the top row lob their empty water bottles at the police, with all direct hits receiving roaring applause. When the police retreat into their van, the boys in the top row begin throwing bags of water at the bottom rows. At first it's to discourage fans at the bottom from climbing on each other's shoulders and block the view of the pitch. But soon it's pure sport. The back of one boy's head becomes a favored target. Ten bags of water and five oranges smack it in less than 30 seconds. What goes down must come up, so the bottom-row boys collect the unbroken bags of water and pelt the top row with the recycled weapons.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/25/LVGQTJJ1DE1.DTL&hw=dan+hoyle&sn=012&sc=160

It sounds like a lot of dirty fun! Soccer in the rain!

Can't watch a game with so many area boys. Would only see a naija match if I had a VIP ticket, which, ofcourse, I wouldn't purchase with my cash!

As long as i get to shout and sing abusive songs with my fellow patriots, ill pay any amount.

PS: a football match is the only place i get to show my wild side, no amount is too much abeg

i wont pay a dime

See ladies and awoof . .e dey run belle o!

back in d day i used 2 be a massive BCC Lions fan but never got 2 watch 'em anytime they visited lagos 'cos i was 2 small & couldn't go to d stadium alone; & my uncles who could take me there were always 2 busy!
but if there's ever a team in the local ligue that will win my heart the way the Gboko Boys did back then, i'd pay the fee 4 VIP stand, which i think should be in the region of 2000 - 5000 naira 4 a local ligue match, anything mo' - na the Very Popular Side get me!

@ wale

walelead:

As long as i get to shout and sing abusive songs with my fellow patriots, ill pay any amount.
PS: a football match is the only place i get to show my wild side!

i feel u on dis 1 man!

@Ruddie, na true now

I also used to wish i could go watch Julius Berger FC play at Onikan Stadium, but i was too young to go alone

But i made up for it by watching them train at Unilag sports complex or Loco fields

Lol. .or even at Apollo field in Ketu, u know their Euro 65 camp wasnt too far 4rm d field?

@kitaun,
U know every

kitaun:

See ladies and awoof . .e dey run belle o!

Why should I spend my own hard-earned cash, when victims like you, with fat wallets, are always ready and willing to do the honours.

@Kit & Wale

u guys must really dig Julius Berger o, good 2 see that some folks are still interested in our local clubs.

Razorr:

Why should I spend my own hard-earned cash, when victims like you, with fat wallets, are always ready and willing to do the honours.

I RESEMBLE MAGA??

FAT WALLETS KO, THIN PURSE NI

Ruddie You get heart small O. You no know say SURULERE na stationary STORES area be dat? You come dey support BCC Gboko for Lagos? A beg. Didn't know BCC had any followers in the west. Nice one. Some of us still appreciate wetin our local league produce in those days.
Good to read of your experiences.
Was never impressed by Julius Berger, especially when Taribo played for them. If anyone said he would end up playing for inter Milan when i first saw him at Onikan stadium -I would have had that Prophet shot. But then he did.

@shinor, u are very correct. my mum was an ardent stationary stores fan. all Lagosians  support stationary stores while the Ibos support Inwayanwu national, so watching both teams play is like watching Man U vs Arsenal. She used to tell me stories of events that happened whenever they played against the  Inwayanwu National of then.

i remember one of those abusive songs about Inwayanwu:

won nke bi Ologbo, Inwayanwu (miauw), won ma nke bi ologbo Inwayanwu

They are crying like a cat, inwayanwu (Miauuw), Oh Gosh, theyre crying like the cat, Inwayanwu (miauw)


I guess she influenced my love for supporting football.

Wale, gud to know that man! Stationery Stores aka Adebajo babes was my Lagos team then and boy they were fiercely supported by Lagosians even more than J.Berger! They became my main team when Leventis Utd my no 1 team got disbanded but alas few yrs later family squabbles became the bane of that wonderful team and they pafuka-ed, how sad! Iwuanyanwu were a great team then and a large no of National team players had stints there too, being sponspored by Chief Emma Iwuanyanwu

Dnt even like Soccer--So i Wld pay #0

i stopped watching live matches in stadiums because; i was almost killed at this same National stadium Suru Lere when  the great Pele came with Flumenese of Brasil to promote TAMA products in Nigeria in the 70s i think, secondly over the years i have found out that you enjoy the game more if you wath a match live on TV 'cause there are a lot of distractions going on in the stadium that may make you to lose very brilliant goals and you know no replay or slow motion, but sha with electronics score boards with video play back that is settled but above all don't you know my name? awoof

Buhahahahah was with d ANGRY thang

Hmmm is ur Living room that stuffy that U have to let me Know!---It's bin long I saw that kind of Living Room.

Gat no Tym 4 Kids like U--So TATA--BuBye