Futbol at La Cancha

Saw a terrific soccer match this sunday - River Plate v Estudiantes. A sunny afternoon, drinking coca-cola and eating superpanchos, what a day. Baseball games are great but soccer is a million times better I must say. The action is buzzer-to-buzzer, the game is right there in front of you; a high class of play, oh boy. Scoreless the whole game on account of stellar goalkeeping. At the end, however, the visiting Estudiantes snuck a goal in, during the final minute of stoppage time (overtime). The audience was stunned, silent.
The visiting team is kept in a barbed-wire enclosure on the opposite side of the field as the hometeam superfans (Read: hooligans). During the course of the game, fans exchange chants and songs across the stadium. No-one could leave the stadium until the visiting fans left. The knifing of two River fans (by other River fans) in the soccer clubhouse a few weeks ago, combined with the arrest of 30 fans at a previous match means that this stadium is suspended from holding games for the next few weeks.
Even with a scandalous last-minute loss, folks were pretty jovial after the game. There was a clash with riot police on the way out, but there was kind of this "boys-will-be-boys" attitude by the people looking on. The police looked a bit more concerned.