We have spent many weekends at either Kyadondo or Kampala Rugby Club watching all sorts of matches. Internationals between Uganda and Namibia and also Kenya both won by Uganda so great atmosphere, sevens and womens rugby! These photos were taken this weekend at the semi-finals between the Heathens and Kobs (top division teams) for the Uganda Cup. It was great fun with Kobs winning convincingly 20-16, not the expected result! All the yellow advertising shirts, horns and balloons are supporting the Heathens sponsored by the mobile phone company MTN! As you can see from the photos there was a band, acrobats and cheerleaders not to mention the scantily clad disco dancers with male dancers looking 'cool' in hoodies! Not really what we are used to at Saltash!! Our treat is pork 'muchumo' barbequed pork on a stick and Nile Special beer. It still seems odd to be watching rugby in hot sun in a t-shirt. Rob has joined the referee society and now has a Ugandan IRB qualification for training referees, so he observes them at matches and writes reports. They at least now use the decent metal 'Acme Thunderer' whistles we brought back for them in the new year rather than the awful plastic ones they were using! The support is always very enthusiastic and good humoured with the girls from the Uganda womens team the loudest, often with rude comments to their male counterparts but very knowledgable! They do a 'knockout' countdown whenever anyone is injured!
It is something I did not think we would be doing here!
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