Sunday, November 29, 2009
Rethinking Malaysian football
There comes a time when all beasts must be put out of their misery. Usually when they seek to be effective in their field. That being the case it is time for the Malaysian Football Association to honourably call it a day and set up a professional body run by professional people with bullshit detectors on all the doors to keep the vermin away.
There are 80,000, the number of fans who watched the FA Cup and Malaysia Cup finals, reasons why Malaysian football should be a success. Unfortunately a much smaller number is set in it's ways and proving a millstone round the game.
So set up a new body to run the game professionally and operate a league where franchisees bid for, um, franchises. Yeap, I hate franchises as well but have you seen the walking, talking, barely breathing disaster that Malaysian football is today.
Surely Kuala Lumpur is big enough to support at least two functioning football clubs? And I don't mean KL Plus, sponsored by a road ffs, and KLFA. Who or what does or did My Team, Proton, ATM represent? Why are these people happy enough to watch Manchester United and Liverpool yet not recognise the formula that makes football a success in most other countries? Identity?
So here then is Jakarta Casual's very own revamped Malaysia Super League what I dun cum up with over my lunch innit.
Kuala Lumpur City
Klang Valley
Selangor State
Melaka City
Penang Island
Johore Bahru United
Kelantan State
Kuching City
Kedah State
Kinabulu City
Send the new owners off to a whirlwind trip round south east Asia, at their own expense (no trip, no memebership). To Indonesia to learn about passion. To Singapore to learn about organisation. And to Thailand to learn about marketing.
Oh and have the games kick off at sensible times like 3pm and 7.30pm
Won't happen of course. No one gives a shit.
Oh well, it could be good news for other sides in the region. Given the young talent coming through at the moment perhaps the only way they can fully develop their skills is by going overseas...
There are 80,000, the number of fans who watched the FA Cup and Malaysia Cup finals, reasons why Malaysian football should be a success. Unfortunately a much smaller number is set in it's ways and proving a millstone round the game.
So set up a new body to run the game professionally and operate a league where franchisees bid for, um, franchises. Yeap, I hate franchises as well but have you seen the walking, talking, barely breathing disaster that Malaysian football is today.
Surely Kuala Lumpur is big enough to support at least two functioning football clubs? And I don't mean KL Plus, sponsored by a road ffs, and KLFA. Who or what does or did My Team, Proton, ATM represent? Why are these people happy enough to watch Manchester United and Liverpool yet not recognise the formula that makes football a success in most other countries? Identity?
So here then is Jakarta Casual's very own revamped Malaysia Super League what I dun cum up with over my lunch innit.
Kuala Lumpur City
Klang Valley
Selangor State
Melaka City
Penang Island
Johore Bahru United
Kelantan State
Kuching City
Kedah State
Kinabulu City
Send the new owners off to a whirlwind trip round south east Asia, at their own expense (no trip, no memebership). To Indonesia to learn about passion. To Singapore to learn about organisation. And to Thailand to learn about marketing.
Oh and have the games kick off at sensible times like 3pm and 7.30pm
Won't happen of course. No one gives a shit.
Oh well, it could be good news for other sides in the region. Given the young talent coming through at the moment perhaps the only way they can fully develop their skills is by going overseas...
# posted by Me @ 1:32 PM 
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what about when they play internationals? they re not at 8.45
indonesia gets by fine with 3.30 and 7.30 while the thais do ok with anything from 4, 5, 6
fact is who wants to go to a football match that ends at nearly 11pm and there s no public transport home?
indonesia gets by fine with 3.30 and 7.30 while the thais do ok with anything from 4, 5, 6
fact is who wants to go to a football match that ends at nearly 11pm and there s no public transport home?
If one wnt a Malaysia clubs league
Then urban centres will hve to be identified like MPPJ Selangor who was quite successful in bringing arnd 10000 to their home games as they represented a region of KL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPPJ_Selangor_FC
Then urban centres will hve to be identified like MPPJ Selangor who was quite successful in bringing arnd 10000 to their home games as they represented a region of KL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPPJ_Selangor_FC
football match that ends at nearly 11pm?? that is quite ridiculous. Malaysia FA should use their common sense..
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