Read in the papers where the Liverpool team will be today quite a few places and so I decided to go down to Novena to catch Glenn Johnson and John Flanagan. It wasn’t too crowded and since the event was sponsored by Carlsberg you just needed to purchase $50 worth of Carlsberg beer to get a free pass to the Fans Area. Seems Harry’s was the co-partner in this as they were selling 2 buckets (each bucket 5 bottles – $35) for $70 which will allow you to get your pass.
Luckily when I got there early there was not much of a queue, it started to get heavy just a few minutes after I got my Fan Access Pass. The place was basically set up in the Basketball Court and all ready for the 2 stars to appear. When I got into the holding area they announced that Glenn Johnson would not be turning up instead it would be Joe Cole.
At About 2.30pm they came in and after a few words they were down to the Autograph and Phototaking. These were actually for those winners from the Carlsberg Fan Site I was not part of that group just behind them in the Fan Area. The top 10 were allowed autographs and personal photo’s with the stars, while the other;s were in team shots of 5 each. There was even Mr Liverpool Fan who actually had Liverpool Tatooed on his Body !!!
After they were done it seemed there was still a little time and so the organiser allowed those in the fan area to come up for a photo in groups of 10. I was one of the first to get in and the first group to go up. There was an official photographer who was taking the photo’s which would be posted on the Carlsberg Fan Web Site on Facebook. But for some reason the organiser saw me with my camera and asked if I wanted someone to take the pic (maybe it’s because I was in my Carlsberg Pool shirt), I said ok and he took the camera looked around at the official photographers but no one around to help him so he decided to take a shot for me. But by then all the official photographers where done and the security personnel was moving everyone off the stage getting ready for the next batch of 10. Somehow I was left alone and got a Solo Photo with Cole and Flanagan … way cool that was ha ha. My lucky “Group” shot.
There was lucky draw at the end of the session after the stars left at 3.15pm they were there like for 45 minutes only. I managed to snag one of the Carlsberg Liverpool Jersey’s. Other items up for the draw were passes to their training ground and for the super lucky person a Liverpool T-Shirt signed by the entire team.
Finally a shot of me with my winning T-Shirt at the event they had this booth where you can take a picture of yourself at the event and they will email you the picture. Yep that is me below with the wacky hat (they gave a Carlsberg Plastic bottle too but that was on the floor) and my lucky draw T-Shirt.
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