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If not, we would not have seen what was claimed by many as the best-ever national team that played and won the Malaysia Cup in 1977.  I chanced upon the National Library Newspaper archive site one fine day, and out of curiosity, I decided to search through the site to see if I can find some of the clippings of the heydays of Singapore back in the 1970s. The result was these two clippings... 'Fans petition' in 1976 ( NLB archive ) It was interesting to note back on 16th December 1976, The Straits Times (ST) reported a fans' petition was organized to ask the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) to replace "Uncle" Choo Seng Quee, arguably the best coach we ever had, with Technical Advisor Englishman Trevor Hartley as the national team coach.  "POOR RAPPORT", "OUT-MODED" CLAIMED FANS These disgruntled fans claimed the coaching methods of Choo were "out-moded" and felt there was a "poor rapport" between him and several player...

The tickets to the "Kallang Roar The Movie"  As a promise to Mr Dollah Kassim, and been eagerly waiting for the release of the movie. Finally, I headed to see the movie -  "Kallang Roar The Movie" just now after work. Had our quick dinner at the KFC, right outside the cinema Where it was all about - the National Stadium At first, we thought of watching it at Orchard's Lido after there was no suitable time slot at Shaw's Balestier cinema, but in the end, we settled on Kallang (because of the ample parking lots for my colleague who was driving us there). Now, as mentioned, I was never meant to be a movie critic, and all I can say is this movie is a sincere production. For the younger generation, be it the fans, players and whoever, this movie shall be seen as a tool of inspiring and learn to appreciate the game of football. Back in the good ol' days, life as an amateur footballer was a tough one, as depicted by the character "Samad", who lost hi...