Robbie Williams Concert

Are the Argentines fanatical about Football? Yes
Are the Argentines fanatical about Robbie Williams? HELL YES!!!!!!!

Rob was coming on stage at 10pm. The doors opened to the stadium at 3pm. We like Robbie Williams, but not enough to wait seven hours for him. We figured he was worth about a 2 hour wait. So we caught a taxi at 8pm. We had bought the cheapest tickets, and expected to be stood at the very back (no seats with the cheap tickets). However, by some crazy stroke of luck we entered the stadium just as they opened a new section right infront of the stage.
When Mr R came on we were about 6 meters away in the crush of thousands of teenage girls holding their camera phones in the air trying to take photos. Girls cried and screamed things like "Rrrrrrobbie casate conmigo!" ("Rrrrrrobbie marry me!"). You could just tell that they thought that if only he would catch their eye, he might fall instantly in love with them and they´d live happily ever after.
It was pretty scary and for the first two songs ,a battle to stay on our feet, Chris protected my ribcage from being crushed by the weight of hundreds of people pushing towards the stage. Moderate panic set in but luckily it chilled out a bit after the first two songs.

It was a great show with all the essential ingredients: Balls of fire that almost zinged our eyebrows, big screens, a light show, superb live singing, and a very entertaining Robbie who seemed to be having a fantastic time trying to speak some spanish and taking the pi** out of Maradonna subtely (they don{t get sarcasm here).
Chris was over the moon because he also sang the Take That classic "Back for good".
Wierdly he brought Jonny Wilks on to sing two songs with him. He went down alright here in Argentina, but Im not sure what a crowd back home would think. The funniest part was when they re-enacted Maradonas hand of God, the crowd kind of gave a dull drown.

We had a great time at the concert, followed by a big night out that ended at 9am this morning. Looking forward to sleeping in Brazil, though I doubt that will happen!