Been to a Portuguese first division game (1 Viewer)

have been in Madeira and we went to a Maritimo v Boavista game they lost 1-0 good goal by BV tickets were 15 to 25 euros however didn’t need any as when we were looking for the ticket office a young guy gave us two tickets free of charge - he got two spare tickets for the last game as he had a season ticket - 40 euros !!!!
Their league is a bit like the jocks - three strong teams and the rest - most if Madeirans seem to support Benfica so this game had nothing in it just position mid table

The only player I knew was Vukovic- Croatian national team other players were Brazilian and Argie with only one local . Game was fast and boy we could do with their pace but defenders were league 2 clunkers and some tackles were pretty heavy - a load of bookings including their goalie for wasting time - was amazing as soon as the ball was with the keeper the locals were getting onto him for time wasting and he got booked - quite frankly he could not have been any quicker !! So after the match with about 4K locals and 60 from Boavista ( remember they have to come by plane ) went downtown and there were more people with Benfica shirts than Maritimo - weird

So no trouble - no alcohol some singing by a group of 30 locals and sadly a low key walkround for the players with their families having lost - I think know that feeling but in whole for us a nice experience to see something different