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Ten years back, soon after the national team claimed its first major honour - the Tiger Cup at Vietnam in 1998. An ambitious project "GOAL 2010" was launched with the ultimate aim to see us qualify for the 2010 World Cup. Since then, it was downward spiral all the way. The 4-0 home defeat to the "auld enemy" Malaysia at Kallang in 2002 being singled out as the darkest day in Singapore football. Like a phoenix rise from the ashes, the appointment of Serbian Raddy Avramovic as the national coach proved to be a masterstroke. Under the non-nonsense Raddy, the Singapore national team transformed itself from the under-achieving side of Asean football to a force to be reckoned with in Asian football. Yes, there were dark days in the turn of the century and eventually saw the scraping of the "Goal 2010" project. But looking back on what the national team had achieved since, can't we not say we are actually "back on track" to complete what "Goal

Two months back, when asked what would be his biggest fear, given the lengthy break after the Lions' victory over the Lebanese. Coach Radojko Avramovic hoped his boys would take a good care of themselves to avoid any unnecessary injuries while fulfilling their club obligations. Perhaps, the string of injuries that occurred to a handful of the players is something coach Raddy would not want to see. Prior the friendly against Bahrain, already saw skipper Indra Sahdan Daud being ruled out till the return game against Uzbekistan (if he recover in time) on 7th June. Joining the Home United star are the likes of Hariss Harun, Khairul Amri, John Wilkinson and etc (barring Hariss, Wilko and Khairul did featured against the Bahrainis). Again, was late for the post-match conference, when I saw coach Raddy (above) being surrounded by the media pack. (Initially, thought that the organizers had changed the venue from the usual "Sliver" room to the staircase that led to it!) after the

In the first posting of the year, I did mentioned that the above-mentioned marking will be "pasted" onto what images, photographs and whatsoever created by me. But having reviewed the whole situation, I decided to do it away for more efficiency. Lately, you guys must have noticed that the "BoLASEPaKO" marking is no longer visible at the bottom right of images. This is because I decided to use an online software call " Picnik " to edit most of my images and photos. The only drawback I can think of this software is inability to allow users to add text onto it (unless, you're willing to pay for it).

Need not further explain my point. Look like "that thing" has really done us a great deed from denying us from joing the Asian elite club tournament. What a shame and the "BLACK SOCKS" are for those who really played us out.. KNN.. (P.S: the Black Socks were being used as in refer to the BLACK SOX scandal that rocked the US baseball scene in 1919)