I'm sure you all realize that Soccer is called Football here. Though if we Americans refer to the sport as football, people usually thing we are talking about American Football. So we usually just call it Soccer, and then people know what we mean. We went to our first professional football game on Saturday, to watch Derby vs. Millwall. Since we live in Derby, we've decided to be Derby fans of course. The Derby County Football Club has a really beautiful stadium with the partial roof suspended from the outside, so that there are no bad seats in the stadium.
We were seated in a family-friendly section...away from the die-hard fans that are really loud and constantly chanting. There is quite a bit of banter that occurs at these games between the home and away fans...a lot of it using not-so-good words for kids. Thankfully, we were on the complete opposite corner of the field from all of that. The video clip below wasn't a particularly exciting part of the game, but you can hear the chanting in the background and get a sense for what it was like.
At half time, Derby was winning 2-0, and they scored a third goal in the second half. Derby played great defense, therefore allowing them to dominate throughout the game. Alexa and Mia didn't seem to really pay attention to the game too much, but Alexa did really enjoy screaming when Derby scored. The whole game was over in less than 2 hours, so it was a great family outing.
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