Football fanatics have been cheering nonstop for their teams since the start of the World cup.
Part of this included contributing to purchase a TV set, occupying or crowding a particular house to watch the games, informing their University authorities of the TV schedules for the games.
Solomon Islands Student President in UNITECH, Hilton Gideon said that every evening since the start of the world cup, they’d put the TV set out on the lawn and spread a canvas so that all the Solomon students could come and watch.
“Some of us sleep out in the open just to see our teams play.
“Sometimes arguments stir up amongst ourselves but that’s all part of the World Cup fever as we all know,” Gideon said.
Students at Divine Word University said they’ve been sleeping at the house of one of the lecturers just to watch the mid-night and early morning games.
“It might be awkward but we just can’t help it, the football fever is just killing us and like many Solomon Islanders would know, soccer is a sport that even if you don’t play, you watch it,” Tony Laugwaro said.
Other students from the PNG Maritime College in Madang and University of Goroka are understood to have liaised with their school authorities to use some of their school facilities to watch the games.
Whilst the Port Moresby based Universities such as; Pacific Adventist University (PAU) and University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) are believed to have done the same-watching the World Cup live telecast from their dorms.
By JEREMY INIFIRI
In Madang, PNG
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