Quote: Iain "The other thing that's been noticeable at other places is the wider community involvement. Stuff like the kids singing and dancing on the pitch, local schools adopting nations and learning about the competing nations. I've no idea if any of this is going on to be honest so it's just comment rather than a criticism, does anyone know of any initiatives?'"
Well, my son, along with his team mates, were mascots for the Fiji side last night. I think all the mascots were drawn from some of the local junior amateur sides in Rochdale but they all had to pay for tickets and all of them had to have an adult accompanying them. I would hope that the local RL junior sides in Salford get the chance to do that too and their parents go along too. Funnily enough though, my son goes to a Rochdale school and he hasn't mentioned anything about the school doing some learning around the World Cup.
Had my son not been a mascot, I'd probably not have bothered going last night to be honest as I'm going to the double header semi's at Wembley. I'm really glad that I did go last night, cracking game, cracking atmosphere and possibly the fullest I've seen Spotland since we were there in the Northern Rail Cup Final. I might try and do the Scotland-USA match now too.