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Not long ago my sisiter said, "Thought you said it was LAST TIME already?" when I mentioned that I'm going to the National Stadium for the recent-concluded friendly matches. Almost two years after a blog entry and a video tribute .. I was still wonder when the day will come I guess it was due to the indeceiveness of the SSC that made everyone kept speculating when the "Grand OLD Lady" is going to be bulldozed, thus it was declared that 30th June was confirmed as the "grand finale" of this Kallang arena. More picture of the National Stadium. This is the press room (above) where all reporters mingled, crack jokes and of course, meet the deadline. A view of the playing surface and the running track from the top-tier of the stadium (above). Here's the "yellow box" of the stadium, where fans gathered to ease and calm their nerves. It's always having that exciting feeling to walk through one of the many entrances, eagerly anticipate any...

I'm not sure if my eyesight was playing a trick on me (as I underwent an eye operation not that long ago.). On the left of the text is the snapshot of the "roll-of-honour" list of Sports Awards 2007. Much to my dismay, our beloved national football team were not even credited at least a meritorious award. Thus I am wonder why could not this be happened? Is it because being an Asean football champions mean nothing to the sport administrators??

"TODAY"'s report on the upcoming football fiesta June's Football Feast It's nice to see number of the Asian Cup finalists are here in Singapore in weeks to come for their preparation of the main event. This is something rare in a sense that the national team seldom have chances like these to pit against some of the best in the region. Personally, I would love to see the Lions play against some of these teams on a more frequent basis (if possible), rather having (with no disrespect) against the likes of Sri Lanka or Maldives in recent years. I guess it's more on planning ahead, if not why we always hear club managers in Europe reluctant to release their players for those "meaningless friendlies"? "Welcome Johnny" Together with the upcoming fiesta is probably the much-anticipated debut of new Lion John Wilkinson of SAFFC. Most of today's papers which I had scanned through had carried the news of the inclusion of ...

Aide Iskandar lifted the AFF championship trophy ( as credited ) I initially planned to post this blog entry immediately after the Lions' successful run in the ASEAN Football Championship. However, I decided to wait and gauge the reactions before proceeding. MEDIA CELEBRATES, BUT CRITICS REMAIN While the media and fans are celebrating the national team’s triumph in retaining their regional supremacy, there remains a group of sceptics who dismiss this as a significant achievement. “They just got lucky. Look at the midfield - they couldn’t handle the Thais,” remarked one critic I overheard. Another chimed in, “Is this the standard of football we’re paying $4,000 for?” And, of course, the perennial comment surfaced: “They’re not as good as the players from the past national teams.” If the first two criticisms hold some weight for certain people, fair enough. However, I do have thoughts on the last statement. Just a few days before the second leg of the semi-final between Malaysia and ...