La Salle and Ateneo fans refused to heed the call from officials of both school to wear black on Sunday’s UAAP match between the archrivals at the Mall of Asia Arena.
Several fans showed up for the marquee match wearing black shirts, in response to the call made by school officials as a show of solidarity with human rights victims as well as a protest against extrajudicial killings and the planned Marcos burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
However, a bigger number of fans chose to wear their respective school colors — green for La Salle and blue for Ateneo -in the first meeting of the two rivals this season.
A few fans interviewed by SPIN said,
“Wala namang extrajudicial killings. It depends really on how you see it,” a La Salle fan, who chose to wear green.
One La Salle fan also decided not to wear black for the match, believing that sports and politics should not mix.
“I’d rather show my support to my team,” said the La Salle fan.
Others even said it was only coincidence that they wore black.