Paul ColstonSouth Korean football club, FC Seoul, has issued an apology after attempting to bring some excitement to closed-door matches by filling empty seats with sex dolls.
The K-League side had attempted to fill, at least partially, the spectator void by using mannequins to replace fans.
However, the ‘mannequins’ turned out to be sex dolls, with the club blaming the mix-up on a “misunderstanding” with the supplier.
The K-League is the first major football league to hold matches since the start of the pandemic (except for Belarus which has never stopped), and the season’s opening game was watched by a big audience of fans starved of live football during the coronavirus outbreak.
The televised match against Gwangju FC brought extra scrutiny to the new ‘ultras’, with footage showing the dolls were spaced out in seats in the otherwise empty stadium, in front of life-size cardboard cut-outs of the team’s players.
In a statement on Instagram, FC Seoul said the club was “deeply sorry” for the incident.
Blown up out of all proportion no doubt…
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