Sunday, February 07, 2010
Singapore, where are you?
It is a sad indictment of the Singapore mentality when only 2.809 fans can be bothered to see their local lads stand on the verge of Champions League football for the second successive season against the rising star of south east Asian football.
As football matches go this had everything. Thrilling ened to end stuff, chances, good saves, a boisterous (away) support, conroversy. Everything in fact except goals.
Nine costumed cheerleaders did their best to rouse their heroes but they were no match for the away support who made themselves heard through the whole game.
Sad to say if Mothercare were to dress 11 mannequins in Liverpool shirts on Orchard Road you would have people queuing at dawn. If Wayne Rooney were to transit Changi Airport on the way home from a holiday it would be headline news and some mong would set up a Facebook group.
Coffee shops round the island would have been full last night for the Mickey Mouse Derby and what is truly pathetic is that hardly any of them would understand my reference to a cartoon character.
If the AFC is serious about implementing minimum attendance requirements in the future for ACL participation then Singapore will lose out.
Not that anyone would notice. People would be too busy gossiping about English WAGS or who cuts Rio Ferdinand's nasal hair.
Perhaps, with this obsession with all things English Singapore could ask her maj if they can rejoin the empire?
As football matches go this had everything. Thrilling ened to end stuff, chances, good saves, a boisterous (away) support, conroversy. Everything in fact except goals.
Nine costumed cheerleaders did their best to rouse their heroes but they were no match for the away support who made themselves heard through the whole game.
Sad to say if Mothercare were to dress 11 mannequins in Liverpool shirts on Orchard Road you would have people queuing at dawn. If Wayne Rooney were to transit Changi Airport on the way home from a holiday it would be headline news and some mong would set up a Facebook group.
Coffee shops round the island would have been full last night for the Mickey Mouse Derby and what is truly pathetic is that hardly any of them would understand my reference to a cartoon character.
If the AFC is serious about implementing minimum attendance requirements in the future for ACL participation then Singapore will lose out.
Not that anyone would notice. People would be too busy gossiping about English WAGS or who cuts Rio Ferdinand's nasal hair.
Perhaps, with this obsession with all things English Singapore could ask her maj if they can rejoin the empire?
# posted by Me @ 6:11 AM 
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I was there supporting Muang Thong. Sorry for the fans, i think they deserve more than those SAF fans. For a moment, i thought Muang Thong was at home.
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