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From an overseas perspective (again, it's real this time)

Remember Mr Renato Andreão, the Brazilian journalist who helped me to interview Egmar Goncalves weeks ago? This time round, Renato is back again with two S.League-related articles he filed not long ago. The first article (screen-shot above) is a preview of the on-going season. (Click here to view the article and unless you understand Portuguese, do use " Google Translate " to view in English) This is the second year in running that Renato wrote about his preview on our local league (with some inputs from yours truly :P - thanks for mentioning me, Renato) . The interesting part of the article is it also gave the insights on the locations where the clubs based, eg : " Location: Choa Chu Kang, died here the last tiger in Singapore in the 1930s." (Nice one, my friend) While the second article featured Gombak United's Nigerian star Gabriel Obatola. (Click here to view the article and unless you understand Portuguese, do use " Google Translate " to view ...

Friendly: Young Lions 0-1 Gombak United (edited)

This being the third time I been to Geylang Field. The first time, I was there to catch the national team training only to have the rain disrupted the whole session, while the second time was there only to have the groundsman told me that the Lions didn't turned up for the training (as they flew off to Vietnam already then). So third time lucky and I managed to catch a friendly between Young Lions and Gombak United. MORE PICTURES FROM THE MATCH The rustic-looking dressing room of the field. As there's no stand erected on the ground, these guys just flanked along the side to watch the action. Or you want the best view of the house, join this guy at the top of the roof. Or from the so-called "comfort-zone" (balcony of these quarters). The playing surface at the Geylang Field certainly look well-maintained or isn't because of a short downpour before that helped to moist the surface? The final score is Young Lions 0-1 Gombak United, with another defensive lapse that s...