BAY AT HYUNDAI FAN PARK
Organised by Graham “Snoopy” Knoop, all members and supporters were invited to join the SWC Semi-Final event at the Hyundai Fan Park on Saturday.
Renamed the Hyundai Van Park, in honour of Captain Vantastic, it appears the club has won many supporters judging on this report from our roving correspondent, Kevin Musikanth (yes, he’s multi-talented).
BAY AT THE VAN PARK
So, finally a free double-weekend with no matches. False Bay and all its Van’s, sorry fans, were lured to the Hyundai VANpark by Graham “snoopy” Knoop.
Yes, from an initial handful of players and one or two WAGS, the False Bay crowd grew to around 100 very strong False Bayer’s and in true South African sportsfan tradition, each Bay person picked a team and flew their colours.
For once the Bay support were divided, with German faces painted and Argentinean soccer tops scattering amongst the False Bay supporters in our special “VIP” cordoned off area.
What a magical day.
The mathematics of the deal still leaves me clutching at Matric algebra, but apparently the “Snoopy Special” which entitled you to bottomless Boerie rolls, made by Bay Big Man Don Ross (which meant you complimented the chef whether you liked it or not) and a good few “free” tokens for beer, was good value for money.
Yes money certainly changed hands.
There was the Gees Competition, which won the couple with the most Gees and who got the biggest cheer a pair of tickets to the very game they were there to watch on a big screen. The simple judging method was the couple who garnered the loudest cheer fro the huge crowd. The louder the crowd screamed when they walked onto the stage and acted like chops, the higher the rating.
Kitted in full German regalia, Dasch Barber (he of 2nd Team hooking fame) and partner goose-stepped onto the stage to the resounding False Bay cheer and 2000 strong crowd vuvezelaing at the sight. With an authentic German flag draped around his kilted attire, Dasch proceeded to commandeer the compere’s microphone (which was acceptable because he knew Snoopy...and of course he also knows VAN) and belted out “Oh when the Bay Go Marching In”. The False Bay crowd quickly took over and it was a one horse race for those tickets from thereon in.
Dasch and Flos “Dasched off” to the quarter final.
Back in the Vanpark, things were hotting up. Banter between the Bay Boys became louder depending on which flag was splashed across your face.
Unfortunately for those supporters of the blue and white of Maradonna and Argentina, the match too was a one-horse race, with the precision of the Germans thumping the razzmatazz of the Argentineans 4-0. This ensured there would be no tangoing into the night for the thousands of Argentinians in Cape Town, what a pity.
By now the 90 plus minutes of Snoopy’s “free” beer took its toll. The game was done and bragging rights went to those brandishing German flags in hand, over body or emblazoned over face.
In true innovative Bay style, the vuvuzela soon became a beer funnel and the “free” beers started to evaporate even swifter than a Lukas Podolski soccer strike. As more and more False Bay folk got in the action they realised that all this World Cup soccer mumbo jumbo needed a serious rethink. Painted faces of competing countries were washed clean and replaced by the Red, Green and White of False Bay.
Some patriotic fellows literally did this from top to toe, proudly walking around the VANPARK to show all, in case they weren’t aware, that these guys were from False Bay.
Characters such as Riaan van der Vyver, Brendon Shields and Hugo Lamprechts (straight off a train from Belville) but to name a few, made sure that they left their mark on a truly historic day, which the Hyundai Vanpark will never forget.
We won’t forget the compere belting out on his reluctantly returned microphone, as he wished Dasch well on his walk to Cape Town stadium, that he is sure that if False Bay were playing at the new stadium it would surely be packed to the rafters.
And who could argue that.
Up the Bay
Kevin Musikanth
