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Attended my second pre-season friendly today at the Toa Payoh Stadium, where Balestier Khalsa
played hosts to the visiting Woodlands Wellington.
For the record, the guests Rams, who only played their first friendly since their season
preparation today, defeated their hosts 1-0 with a solitary header from Asraf Rashid in the first
half.
Indonesian CupArema v Persijap 3-0 (Roman Chmelo, Dendy Santoso, Roni Firmansyah)
Deltras v PSMP 2-3
Sriwijaya v PSPS 1-1
Semen Padang v Persikabo 1-3
SLeagueHome United v Balestier Khalsa 2-2
Beijing Guo'an v Albirex Niigata 0-2 (Fumiya Kobayashi, Satoshi Hida)
Geylang United v Sengkang Punggol 3-2 (Peter Tomko 3; Sobrie Mazelan, Murphy Wiredu) Images
Tomko, who sounds like someone from the Wombles, scored a hat trick against the Dolphins last
night making it six for the season.
Like I mentioned before, it's a matter of time I got hold a DSLR camera, and eventually I did.
I wasted no time at all to try out my new "Canon 50D" on the same evening after I got hold of it on
the same day itself, where else but at the stadium I decided to trial out my new toy.
Below are some of the pictures I snapped along the way at the Balestier-Geylang match at the Toa
Payoh Stadium.
I must apologise for the recent lack of updating due to the fact that there are some tidy chores in
my house for the upcoming repair works that's gonna take place in days to come.
As such, I might see myself being tied up for some packing and clearing up some stuff along the
process. The last time round saw me unearthed the two precious TNP centerspread of the Malaysia Cup
era and now here are some relic I discovered during my clearing out.
Balestier's Brazilian import Vitor Borges venturing into the Rams' heartlands
So much debate had been on-going if the S.League should have a recess during the World Cup
period.
The argument is that with the "Greatest Show on Earth" grabbing the attention world-wide, the
domestic league will be further deprived of attention and the crowds, as reported on the papers
recently, are staying away.
The post heading was a familiar chant from the massed ranks of SAFFC cheerleaders, about 12 of
them, as they won SLeague after SLeague in recent years. But not this year. Instead we are looking
at a three horse race with five games remaining and the possibility of a foreign team winning the
trophy for the first time in the history of the SLeague.
Not that long ago, I got a SMS (in green font) from a friend of my that he shared with me his
rating of the S.League since the inauguration in 1996...
Attendances based on my memory
- 96 Tiger high,
- 96 Pioneer low,
- 97 average,
- 98 recession,
- 99 good,
- 00 average,
- 01 good but media coverage totally destroyed during SEA Games,
- 02 starting to have unusual results
- 03 penalty shootouts average N later died off
- 04 league reduced in teams, gd with jap albirex in,
- 05 gd with paya lebar in, young lions N balestier performed well,
- 06 young lions did well in FA Cup, sporting afrique some interest but fade away after payment
issues,
- 07 tiger cup success, but liaoning destroyed it
- 08 poor
- 09 bad
- 10 worst
I asked my friend if he would like to be quoted and acknowledged, he politely declined, but I
thought this is something rather interesting and it's not those-kind-of-thesis-type of article as
it's simple and hit the nail kind of review.
