Saturday, October 22, 2005

SLeague soccer

While waiting for the man u match to start i shall blog about soccer that is closer to us..the S-League!
First we shall go into my theory of how leagues in the world are named. Leagues in excellent footballing nations like Brazil and Germany get pretitled with an letter close to the start of the alphabet. Therefore the Brazilian league and German League both start with B. Lesser footballing nations like England get pretitled with E, and even louser ones like Singapore get the ones all the way at the end at the alphabet. Anyway, the point of this is that only the best of the best of the leagues in the world get to start with A..and hey..what a coincidence..thats where Yorke belongs!
Anyway, angst berge bonks and me went to watch SAFFC vs Geylang at CCK stadium on thursday. The tickets only cost 1 buck each cos we were students, and they even gave free ice cream for each ticket purchased. That is like the cheapest entertainment Ive seen for damn long.
After waiting outside the gates for like 30 minutes for that stupid berge to arrive and missing 49 seconds of the match, he finally arrived and we rushed in to grab our seats in quite a packed stadium. And contary to our expectations the match was actually quite good.
Geylang drew first blood thru some thai dude called Pittipong or as bonks would call him "Pretty bonks". Then while berge and bonks were busy staring at some male cheerleader, Alexander Duric levelled with a predatory strike not unlike that of Van Nistelrooy. Then SAFFC scored again when Noor Ali(whos like 3 heads shorter than Duric) was pulled down in the area.
Then Pittipong went crazy and like went thru 4 SAFFC defenders to shoot past Adi Saleh in the SAFFC goal who sadly like touched the ball 3 times in the entire match(all 3 times to pick the ball up from the back of the net). Apparently John WIlkinson then scored another goal in identical fashion but i din see cos i was distracted by two small boys playing with a rubber ball at the steps below us. SAFFC needed to win to keep their title hopes alive and this was reflected by the SAFFC dude behind us who started shouting damn loudly at the referee.(both me and bereg concluded that he betted on the match)

Anyway in the end duric only managed to score one more so they bid farewell to their title hopes. In all it was a damn nice match with good displays of skill, espcially by the Nigerian guy in SAFFC called Greg Nwokolo whos damn good at dribbling.

Moral of the story? Go watch an Sleague match one of these days, you wont regret it cos its really worth it supporting SIngapore soccer. Just dont go watch Paya Lebar or SInchi or sthg like that and you'll probably enjoy it.

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