Frustrated football fans take to Jay Chou's social media to voice their displeasure over seat shortage
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 5 — Harimau Malaya fans are training their guns on King of Mandopop Jay Chou after a chunk of seats at the Bukit Jalil National Stadium for the AFF Cup 2022 had to be sacrificed to accommodate Chou’s upcoming concert.
Instagram user @ra_jiq blamed Chou’s January 15 performance as the reason he could not get tickets.
Fellow Instagram user @aqmar_daniel wants the concert to be cancelled as Malaysians want the stadium to be full on Saturday, January 7, for the first leg of the semi-final match against Thailand.
Responding to a comment from @_.amirr.___ that the stadium is a venue for football and not for concert, @nazmi.nami said the stadium does not belong to the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM).
“FAM rents from them...if you want to condemn, please have the basic knowledge.”
Over at Chou’s official Facebook page, Muhammad Farid commented that no concert is bigger than a country’s mission.
Another Facebook user Hazirul Annuar Mustafa questioned who Chou is.
“Can you postpone your concert in Malaysia? We have a more important mission than this concert.”
However, Chou’s fans were quick to defend their idol.
According to @yoyo_icecube, the concert has sold out a long time ago. “Go attack the organiser who set up the stage too early.”
Chiming in, @cy_kek commented the concert had been postponed for three years due to Covid-19.
“Please stop your hate comments on this legendary singer/ musician,” he said, adding that the fault lies with the stadium management and not Chou.
At the time of writing, Chou has yet to disable the comment section of his social media.
The backlash against Chou came following an announcement from FAM that only 59,000 tickets will be sold.
FAM secretary-general Noor Azman Rahman said 21,000 seats have to be ‘vacated’ as they will be obstructed by the structure of Chou’s concert stage which was in the process of being installed, Bernama reported.
