Fans or No Fans? Obviously sports teams want fans in the stands but the coronavirus has, for the moment, put a halt to that. We saw NASCAR race this weekend – sans fans in the stands and pro golfers (carrying their own bags) playing in front of a gallery of none.
The murmuring, crowd noise, in-play reactions were not there. NASCAR didn’t seem to matter as much as golf due to the natural noise of the sport.
If you watched, it was weird but not as weird (or surprising) as the ‘crowd’ at a South Korean soccer match.
The K-League club FC Seoul, a professional football (see soccer) team in South Korea, has apologised after “mannequins” it used as substitute fans during a match at the weekend turned out to be sex dolls.
The club said it was an honest attempt to add some ‘realism’ to the event. But that backfired as the dolls had been ordered inadvertently after a “misunderstanding” with the supplier.
FC Seoul said in a statement, “Our intention was to do something light-hearted in these difficult times. We will think hard about what we need to do to ensure that something like this never happens again.”
If it does happen again, no one will be more surprised than the ‘fans’.
2016 K League winners FC Seoul inadvertently used sex dolls rather than fashion mannequins to help fill empty stands this weekend. The club has apologised. Both the club and the supplier are pointing fingers at others. (It's not just COVID-19 you need to avoid catching!) #kleague pic.twitter.com/59rSU8XxYL
— Devon Rowcliffe (@WhoAteTheSquid) May 17, 2020
