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Despite a poor start to the season, a defeat and a draw, LionsX11 are still attracting plenty of
interest among those who recall the 'good old days' of Malaysia Cup. Over 7,000 filled a newly
expanded Jalan Besar Stadium for the opening game with Kelantan while this report suggests ticket
sales are going well ahead of the next game against KL.
Tickets for the daftly named LionsXII, sorry but it is a daft name, opening game in the Malaysia
Super League against Kelantan go on sale this Friday. Again the Singapore FA have this nonsense
idea that tickets will only go on sale to Singaporeans and Permanent Residents which means if I
wanted to go I couldn't.
The Malaysian football league may not have many teams. Just 14 in the top flight Super League and
12 in the Super League. But when you add the FA Cup and the Malaysia Cup what you have is a
domestic season that begins in January and finishes at the end of October. Then the best players
get to prepare for the SEA Games or the AFF Cup depending which year we are in.
Next year sees a Singapore team competing in the Malaysia Super League, a throwback to the times
when they competed in the prestigious Malaysia Cup fondly remembered by fans of that
generation.
The Singapore Lions is a team being specially built to compete north of the causeway, the season
starts in January, and is being slowly, almost painfully, put together piece by piece.
KUALA LUMPUR: National skipper Safiq Rahim will get his long overdue chance to impress at
Malaysian-owned English Second Division side Cardiff City.
The 24-year-old Selangor midfielder leaves for Cardiff today with high hopes of achieving a
first for Malaysian football and take his football career to new heights.
After Arsenal, Liverpool and that other club, forget their name, toured Malaysia earlier this year,
chances are the visit of Bangladesh won't excite too many people beyond the migrant workers that
build the country.
On Sunday though the Bangladesh national team will play a friendly against Malaysia Cup winners
Negeri Sembilan.
Malaysia Cup Final
Terengganu v Negeri Sembilan 1-2 (Ashaari Samsuddin; S Kunalan, Hairuddin Omar)
The Negeri's second win in three years, they also reached last year's final but were beaten by
Kelantan. Malaysian football done and dusted until January when we can expect to see foreign
players line up for the first time in three years.
Not a headline you're ever gonna read in England.
There was widespread disappointment in Malaysia when it was announced ticket prices for today's
Malaysia Cup Final between Negeri Sembilan and Terengganu were set at 50 RM, compared to 30 RM for
last year's showpiece.
Fans protested on line and off and there were threats the game would be boycotted.
Criminally I have not been keeping up with the Malaysia Cup over recent days. We're at the semi
final stage now with the second legs being played tomorrow. As things stand:
Selangor v Terengganu 0-2T Team v Negeri Sembilan 2-4
Is an all Terengganu final on the cards? NS's home advantage following their 4-2 win over the ever
so daftly named (takes a deep breath) Terengganu PBDKT T Team makes it unlikely but this is
Malaysian football after all so we'll see.
The latest Jakarta Casual Weekly is now on line. World Cup reaction, Safee and the Welsh Riviera
and the Malaysia Cup are among the topics covered...
Malaysia Cup
Johor v Kedah 0-2Sabah v Perak 0-0Sime Darby v Terengganu 0-3PKNS v Negeri Sembilan 1-2Sarawak v
Kelantan 0-2Johor FC v Felda United 0-2T Team v Selangor 1-0PDRM v KL 0-3
Just one home winner in the opening round of the Malaysia Cup and even that saw one of the
favourites, Selangor, go down 1-0 to a goal by Alias!
I understand Gombak United coach Darren Stewart is being linked with a move to Johor ahead of next
season's Malaysia Premier League.
Aussie Stewart is in his third season with The Bulls and many felt the team would have won some
silverware in 2010 had the fates not conspired against them so cruelly.
You could throw a rock from JB to Singapore. If you had a strong arm. And were standing in the
middle of the causeway. And a large pigeon suddenly swooped down from the Malaysian side, plucked
the stone from your hands and carried it over to Singapore before dropping it on the miserable
buggers who stamp passports for a living.
I was watching the NDP rally that ended moments ago and thought would like to add my
less-than-a-dime thought having saw a clip of the 1994 Malaysia Cup Final win over Pahang by the
Singapore team.
The Prime Minister was quoting someone who shared with that moment as a 17 year-old by saying that
"it was not about the victory then, but more for the fact it was a time when strangers come
together and stand unison before the team.
I am not sure how the whole phenomena started, following the announcement of the FAS-FAM MOU at
Kuala Lumpur.
Seen as a mere exercise to foster better footballing tie of both countries with each side will send
a team to take part in each other's domestic league as a "cornerstone" arrangement in this symbolic
partnership.
Singaporeans love to talk about the day their Lions travelled to Malaysia and beat Pahang 4-0 to
lift the Malaysia Cup.
I've been meaning to write about it for a while but to be honest I couldn't do it justice. If it's
to be told it needs to be told by those who were there, who made the journey.
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.
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.
A four-year partnership agreement between the Football Association of Singapore and the Football
Association of Malaysia will see an exchange of youth-based clubs in their respective domestic
leagues and cup tournaments from 2012. Singapore will be represented in the Malaysian Super
League, Malaysia Cup and FA Cup by the Singapore Lions, a team comprised of U-23 national players,
five players
Picture courtesy of FAS If you guys want to know what are my thoughts over 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 follow when he called earlier.
Negeri Sembilan v Perlis 2-0
Pahang v Kedah 0-1
Harimau Muda v Johor FC 2-2
T Team v KL 2-3
Felda United v Terangganu 2-6
Perak v Selangor 0-0
Sabah v Kelantan 1-2
1 - Kelantan 26 17 5 4 52-21 562 - Terengganu 26 16 5 5 54-26 533 - Selangor 26 16 4 6 42-24 52
15 - Abdul Hadi Bin Yahaya (Terengganu)14 - Norshahrul Idlan Talaha (Kelantan)11 - Abdul Manaf
Mamat (Terengganu)10 - Badhri Radzi (Kelantan), Ashaari Samsuddin (Terengganu)9 - Indra Putra
Mahayuddin (T Team)
Some year for the north east of of Malaysia with Kelantan winning the Malaysia Super League,
joining Terengganu who won the FA Cup earlier in the year.
"Here's the 'Crazy Horse'!!" said former Singapore captain Fandi Ahmad prior to the kick-off of the
veteran match of the 2009 Sultan of Selangor Cup at the Jalan Besar Stadium, as stood beside him
(pictured below) was none other than Nasir Jalil (pictured below left in dark-coloured attire)
popularly known by that nickname.
KOTA BHARU (20 May 2011) – Malaysia Cup champions Kelantan will finally have
a new stadium with a capacity of 40,000 – following the approvals from the state government to
build the new facility in Pasir Puteh to the tune of RM159 million (USD 52.4 million).
Chief Minister of Kelantan Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat said that the stadium will be built
within a sports complex which will also have other sporting venues including a swimming pool.
Tanjong Pagar are a club with a proud history. They were runners up in four of the first five years
of the SLeague and the one year they missed out on second place they won the Singapore Cup.
The 1980s were their time though, before the advent of the SLeague. They won the National Football
League twice, the old domestic competition at a time Singapore still competed in the Malaysia Cup,
and won the President's Cup on four occasions.
Mr Terence Ong, who is now pursing a degree in communications wrote to me last November for some
help in a school assignment he was doing.
Months later, I met him at a game at Jalan Besar and suggested to him that if would it be OK for me
to reproduce that assignment for this blog and credit him as a "guest columnist" and he's fine with
it, so here it goes.
BY SHAMSHUL FITRI
PETALING JAYA: The glory days of the Malaysian football league may perhaps be on the way back
after pay-TV operators Astro have agreed to pump in RM120mil to the FA of Malaysia (FAM).
The sponsorship, which will run from this year until 2014, will see Astro injecting RM30mil
annually to the league in return for broadcasting rights to all matches in the Super League,
Premier League and the FAM League.
