Field Of Dreams

      National Stadium finally came to an end after 34 years of glory days. She serves Singapore well from SEAP Games to Malaysia Cup.... National Day parades to ASEAN Championship (previously known as Tiger Cup). Though i am not so attached to the building, its saddening to see it gone... The tribute to the stadium was indeed meaningful.

      Unfortunately, the promoters did a bad job. I never really see any promoting for the events. The turn-out was disappointing. Merely 45,000 (max. capacity is 55k, i think). The sound system wasn't that good, i can hardly hear the legend, Rahima Rahim sings. Neither could i hear Kit Chan's voice... The only good part was Mark Richmond's exciting introduction for various soccer moments, Daniel Ong's & Jean Danker's emcee-ing... Brian Richmond is just ok, not that bad either... And that's all...

      The match between Singapre Ex-International & Malaysia Ex-International is just rubbish, i guess no one really want to watch... it ended Singapore won over a coin toss after a 1-1 draw... Stupid right? haha... The match between Socceroos & the Lions aren't as good as expected. The Lions lost 3-0 to the Aussie. Australia was at second-gear throughout the 1st half, missing their chances & giving Singapore chances to score... Unfortunately, the lions couldn't perform... Its not that they did not have any chance, they have lots of one-on-one chances instead... all blew wide, keeper saved or worst still... give the ball back to Australia.

Socceroo Mark Viduka (centre) is challenged by Lions

      0-0 at half time is not credit to Lionel Lewis. He hardly made any saves. At most 2 commendable saves... The rest? Socceroos missed the chances themselves. His performance is below-par... Made many silly mistakes, e.g. pass the balls to opponent... Indra Sahdan failed to keep up his reputation in scoring against big team. He is famous for scoring against Man Utd, Uruguay, Japan & Denmark. Today, he did shoot, but failed to score...

Aussie shows EPL standard

      Singapore wasted many chances in attacking. They do not shoot directly or try to, whenever there is a chance. They will wait, hestitate or ponder awhile before trying for a shot... by that time, opponent had reacted and snatch the ball back. Hey, we are against European based Aussie leh... At this rate, we can't even be ASEAN Champions again. Thailand actually played better that time in National stadium. Singapore use long-ball techniques again... which actually failed against Thai... Aussie punished them in second half with Harry Kewell subbed in... a player with class...

      A little disappointed today, after the event. Not a good outing... No enthusiastic crowds (unlike against Thai), No full attendance... Post-events really s**ks big time... (Who is the singer again?) Hopefully, can see better performance from Singapore. More matches like this is needed.... till more improvement, i guess i may not go watch SIN matches in near future...