Daniel Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 I was at a Hungarian first division match this past Saturday (MTK 4th v Vasas 14th) and boy, it was worse than a USL D1 game! And the atmosphere: had it not been for the visiting fans, it'd be a dozen 16-y/o ultras and old men eating pumpkin seeds chanting "EmTayKah". Sad, sad stuff. MTK won 3-0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted December 12, 2005 Author Share Posted December 12, 2005 Tickets were 1,500 FT (6 euros). I had some pumpkin seeds (0.40 euros) and they were not salted and tasted like crap. I don't think there was a club shop and the concessions ressembled what the Lynx have, only worse. Attendance was probably around 1,500-2,000, if that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
River City Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 Pumpkin seeds are good....same with roasted and salted fava beans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 quote:Originally posted by River City fava beans... ...and a nice chianti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zacRWE Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 I herd that MTK, though one of the bigger teams in hungary, has a verry small fan base. Farencvaros and Debrecen are the more popular teams... no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 Well, I'll tell you that the MTK fan base was pretty small and dispassionate at the game I was at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jeffery S. Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 That is quite cheap. I paid 9 Euros to go to a fifth tier game this weekend, my neighbourhood team Poble Sec winning over a direct rival to stay in a promotion spot to go directly into Spanish 3rd division (4th tier). Mind you, I read in the paper the next day that they had free cava -Catalan-style champagne- and Xmas cakes for paying fans, though noone told me about it. I think I am going to complain by telling them that in Hungary it is half the price and they have pumpkin seeds at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MFC Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Football in Hungary is not well supported, biggest fan base is Ujpest at the moment. Who won the Autumn season at the weekend. Ferencvaros can get a decent crowd (when I say decent, I mean 6,000) but are poor this season. Debrecen are quite well supported but too far from Budapest to travel to. MTK are not a big draw , probably the 4th team in Budapest but have had some success in the last few seasons with the downfall of Honved and this year ferencvaros. You are right about the quality of football, any player that is anyway decent (and there are not too many of them) are playing elsewhere in Europe which leaves a poor quality overall. A lot is to be said in getting the 'grass roots' right. Atmosphere can be decent if one of the big teams is involved, if not you can forget about it. As for the seeds, everyone eats them here. For big games they have roasted pigs on spits waiting to be carved for you. But what do you expect from a country that pronounces its letter A as O and S as shh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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