Jakarta Casual

Ok, truth be told I haven't been watching as much South East Asian football over the last few months. In fact ever since I reduced my co...

🇮🇩⚽️ Indonesian football has all the characteristics of a soap opera and that's what makes it so difficult to write about. Today's...

This here blog is now in its 15th year and in that time there have been some quite seismic changes to the Indonesian football landscape. The...

After an absent of 12 months Indonesian football returns tomorrow with the  pre-season Piala Menpora.  There have been that many competition...

It must be so frustrating being a Persis fan. On the one hand they have been starved of success as decades of mismanagement has see the team...

A new era is supposed to be dawning on Malaysian football, an era of professionalism from top to the bottom of the structure. No more state ...

There is something so tempting about the third tier of Malaysian football. Now known as M3 League it offers up a mixture of private companie...

  I grew up an Arsenal fan. In fact I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t an Arsenal fan, except for a few hours in the 1970s when we let sl...

In these dreadful times it is heartening that at least a pretense of a normal life is going on in football. I speak of course of the draws m...

While much has been made of the exodus of top players from Indonesia over recent weeks owing to the uncertainty of the status of the 2020 se...

  Talk about the road less travelled. A Singapore football club have spent real money to sign a player. With the new season just weeks away,...

Over five years ago I was based in the Middle East and one weekend I decided to head to Bahrain for a beer, a passport stamp and, of course ...

Roll on tomorrow as the Singapore Premier League returns after a lengthy covid induced hiatus. For those who can't remember, which inclu...

The final round of games in the Kyrgyzstan Premier League were due to be played on Tuesday. I was planning to go to them but with the unrest...

FC Dordoi go into tomorrow's penultimate league game against second place Alga knowing a win would secure them their 12th Premier League...