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Just a short one here... This quote on yesterday's "MyPaper" caught my attention. Short and powerful message strong enough to epitomize the crisis football is facing nowadays everywhere on this planet. Let's bring the game back to the fans and not being a toy for the risk-mongers.

The RHB Singapore Cup draw was held at the Bukit Panjang Plaza on the Labour Day, a slight tweak in the draw venue which was held in the downtown areas in the past. Nonetheless, it was another day where local football fraternity get together for a cordial moment before later of the day they were being made know they'll be facing in this premier knock-out competition of local football. PICTURES OF THE DAY (Pictured above) The emcee hyped up the ambience with this group of SAFFC supporters before the start of the day. With the huge billboard as the backdrop, the Singapore Cup took the centerstage of the day. This group of kids held up the placards of the participating teams of this year's tournament (after some coordinating from the photographers). Performance by the award-winning cheerleading - REXAZ of Republic Polytechnic kicked-start the draw ceremony. FAS president Mr Zainudin Nordin in his opening speech highlighted that the Singapore Cup has steadily progressed to become

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One of the aims of this blog is to expand its coverage beyond the S.League into the continental level, which I'm glad to say that I managed to fulfil that task as an obscure blogger. Just as people tend to see the glamour side of these continental tournaments (i.e.:the Asian Champions League and the second-tier AFC Cup), I thought it would be an eye-opener to take a look behind the scene of running the events, which is an arduous task for those who were involved. THE ACCESS PASS... (Picture above) Colour code of various type of passes and bibs were clearly illustrated on this glass panel. Credit to this volunteer whose task was to sort these passes. Being prided as the top-two continental tournaments, it's inevitable that the organizers - the AFC and the relevant local sub-organizers would have various pass issued to those involved behind the scene. From the AFC officials, players, coaches, team officials to the media, security, ball boys and even cleaners were being given a p

(P.S: As I will be out-station for a while, it would not be too good to leave this place empty.) Like I mentioned it's a collective effort from everyone to see this blog continue to excel, so this blog entry here is rather spontaneous in a sense that it was conceived after a brief chatter with a friend over the phone. During our short tele-conversation, he suggested a change in everyone's mentality shall be in place, should we see the successful implementation of the "Strategic Plan". He stressed that some "stick-in-the-mud" kind of attitude of some in the fraternity should be removed in order to see our football go forward. He went on added that with new ACL regulation, he doubt we can make because of 2 criteria - the mandatory promo/relegation system and the minimum 5k attendance at each game. So at the end of the day, would you guys agree that even given the grand, comprehensive strategic plan that detailed every thing, would the whole thing WOULD DERAIL