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Rennard Ho, a 14 year-old Courts Young Lions supporter, who penned a letter to one of the papers regarding his thoughts on the recent announcement of the joint FAS-FAM MOU that would see a Singapore team playing in the Malaysian League for the first time since 1994. Below is the unedited version of the letter Rennard emailed and many thanks to him for allowing me to republish it. "First and foremost, I do not actually expect this to be published. I'm 14 this year, and I support the Courts Young Lions. This move to the Malaysia Cup, has brought disappointment and shock to me, and many others in the football fraternity. I'm upset that, after those attempts to secure major sponsors, fans and a TV show about the team, we are going to Malaysia. This is from the BOTTOM of my heart. Have FAS ever thought about how fans think? They EXPECT us to be happy. Wait. What about those players? Don't they have an education here? So should we expect them to travel to and fro from

Picture courtesy of FAS If you guys want to know what are my thoughts on the announcement made this afternoon at Kuala Lumpur (pictured above), I would say I'm still struggling to formulate my thoughts. As everything to me still looked so vague, nonetheless, I allowed a journalist friend to quote me as follows when he called earlier. "We have just disqualified ourselves with Malaysia from taking part in the ACL (Asian Champions League), as I understand AFC (Asian Football Confederation) do not allow participation from member countries if they having foreign teams in their domestic leagues" citing an earlier announcement that saw us redraw from the Asian elite club competition because of the insistence of having foreign teams in our league. "Furthermore, it's been 17 years after we pulled out from the Malaysia Cup and during the period we see a new generation of supporters grown-up that who might not see/appreciate the significance of it as in the past,

Got an email from Friz, who is a DJ of Rediffusion Radio that he would like to feature me on their morning show on SYNC - Your Lifestyle Radio . With DJ Friz  (pictured right) who is the host of  "SYNC - Your Lifestyle Radio" Rediffusion has been in Singapore since 1949, during its heyday from 1950s to late 1970s it was a common sight everywhere in Singapore to have its trademark "box" receiver strategically located at places like kopitiams, shophouses to allow listeners to tune to their programs with Chinese Dialect Operas and Story-Telling segments by the legandary Lee Dai Shau being the mainstay of the station from decades. As times evolved, so did Rediffusion as well with the station broadcast its programs using Digital Audio Broadcasting (DBA) System that provides crystal clear sound quality. Here I was in the recording studio doing the recording Just like the "Razor TV" segment I was on earlier, this program was pre-recorded as well

How many of you actually bother about this picture? For those who know the game well it's a keenly contested S.League title race that is well underway. And yet, how many of you bother? It's the most unfortunate to have the scene being associated with much negativity that the unfair comments, suggestions, perception have been unwilling tag along with Singapore football. And since it has been so unconvincing to tell the positive side of the league at this stage I thought something visible should be presented for those skeptics to see before passing any judgement. (screen grab from Liga Singapura )

(Media Information from the Football Association of Singapore ) Could this herald a new era under Coach Raddy? (File Picture) SINGAPORE, 5th July 2011: Singapore National Team coach, Radojko Avramovic has selected a list of 25 players for the upcoming FIFA World Cup Brazil Qualifying Round Two matches against Malaysia to be played on 23rd July and 28th July 2011. The first leg will be played on 23rd July in Singapore at the Jalan Besar Stadium while the second leg will see Malaysia play hosts to the Lions in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2014 FIFA WORLD CUP BRAZIL™ ASIAN QUALIFIERS ROUND 2 PLAYERS LIST S/N Popular Name Position Club Caps Goals 1 Andrew Tan FW Balestier Khalsa FC 2 Hariss Harun MF Courts Young Lions 16 0 3 Izwan Mahbud GK Courts Young Lions 4 Ruzaini Zainal MF Courts Young Lions 2 0 5 Afiq Yunos DF Courts