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SAFFC's warming up at their designated half Kitchee's warming up prior the game (does the floodlights match up to 2000lux?) Face it man, Kitchee (from Hong Kong) were never into the game when they faced SAFFC in this AFC Cup opener. It's not wonder they ate the humble pie by saying they would be happy if they walked away from Jalan Besar with ONE point at pre-match media session (was later told this was NOT their best XI due to import restriction for this tournament). Nonetheless, it was a relief for all of us at the JBS after AFC decided to have this fixture in the accustomed timeslot, instead of having it at 4.30pm (to compliment the 2000 lux ruling for the floodlights)! Kitchee's team manager, Ken Ng (with necktie) alongside with SAFFC's coach Richard Bok in the post match media conference Ken Ng, the team manager of the visiting team paid tribute to the Warriors during the post-match media conference. "SAFFC is a strong team" said Ng "Tonight

One shall never flare up in the game especially to those helping out in the game. Above-mentioned clip is a highlight of the Copa Libertadores fixture between Flamengo of Brazil and Nacional of Uruguay. Good Job by the referee.. Kudos!!!

Sorry for the fact that I didn't update anything for the past week, due to the uncertainties involving my working schedule.. I am not sure if I'm pressing the panic button now, having saw some one-sided scores for the past few days. 5 Mar 2008 Sengkang Punggol 1 : 4 Tampines Rovers 6 Mar 2008 Dalian Shide Siwu 1 : 6 Singapore Armed Forces FC 6 Mar 2008 Albirex Niigata (S) 1 : 5 Home United Fair enough, the big guns of the league posted victories in their fixtures against their much weaker opponents but each goal margin is such a worrying sight. It's never something sweet to taste if one lost a game by such a gap. Not just bitter for the players but also the fans, who might jump into the "wrong conclusion" again. Anyway, the season is still at its infancy.. so for the sake of everybody.. fight for your pride and even if you lose, do it with honour.. It's BAD enough to look in this manner.. BUCK UP!!

If you were at Queenstown stadium days ago, you bound to hear the mentioned chants by the "home" fans. After all, it was the home debut of Dalian Shide Siwu FC (one of the many variations of this team) - the latest addition to the S.League. Initially, these fans (a small pocket of Chinese expatriates) were chanting "Come On, Dalian!" (大连队,加油!) before they switched to "Come On, Shide!" (实得队,加油!), although the funny part occurred when they also chant "Come on, LIAONING!"(辽宁队,加油!) No fault to that, since Dalian is a seaport located in the Liaoning province, thus no argument to that I thought (See the map above.. Thanks Paul, for reminding me that). PICTURES at QUEENSTOWN STADIUM The first surprise was to read the another variation of the name of the Dalian Shide Football Club - "Dalian Shide Talent Development Football Club' (Wow.. that's long and formal eh..) Another surprise was to see the media booth being shifted upwards to the top

The "PrtSc" shoot of the site... Got a request for info days ago, just before the kick-off of the season. A Brazilian journalist was keen to do a write-up for the League and requested for some information. So I did and not long ago he emailed the link of the story (as mentioned below - the URL) http://www.trivela.com/Futebol.aspx?secao=7&id=18670 It's in Portuguese though (might need to translate with the in-built software inside the Firefox browser)