Thailand’s university football match spotlights fierce battle over kingdom’s future

[snoop1130]

 

The recent football match between Chulalongkorn and Thammasat universities may have looked like an edition of the traditional sporting event held almost every year since 1934. But in reality, it was no such thing.

 

“No, the recent event was not the Chula–Thammasat Traditional Football Match,” Assoc Prof Dr Jessada Denduangboripant, a lecturer at Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Science, explained on social media as he sought to quell public uproar over the parade held for the match.

 

Outcry and explanation

 

Several alumni of Chulalongkorn University – aka Chula or CU – have expressed dismay and anger over how the emblem of their esteemed institute was carried into Bangkok’s Supachalasai National Stadium on March 31.

 

Caption: Photo : Chula BAKA

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2024-04-10

 

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[hotchilli]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Several alumni of Chulalongkorn University – aka Chula or CU – have expressed dismay and anger over how the emblem of their esteemed institute was carried into Bangkok’s Supachalasai National Stadium on March 31.

The old school brigade not liking the more open anti-subordinate thinking.

[Thingamabob]

For many years Thammasat has been the source of radical thinking in Thailand, and many of it's students have paid the ultimate price without ever achieving change, up to now...