After winning the Malaysia Cup in 1994, Singapore was kicked out of the tournament altogether by our neighbours for involving in match fixing. Incidentally, their state clubs did not even get reprimanded at all. Well, it was a chance for us to develop our own professional league with the help of Douglas Moore, who won us our first Malaysia Cup since 1980.
12 years on, we have almost half of the league made up of feeder clubs of foreign teams. True enough, these teams have provided us the likes of Shi Jiayi, Agu, Itimi Dickson (anyone knows where he is now?), Qiu Li and also, the Sporting Afrique players who survived in Singapore with $100 per month. However, we DID NOT see the birth of another Fandi Ahmad. Not even another Tamil Marren. So what went wrong?
It has definitely got to do with the way we constructed our league. Look, a league with no relegation system is like playing zero points - if you lose, just join in the fun again! So where is the competition? How to improve if there is no competition?
I really hope that Yaya Madon can make a come back.....
1 comment:
im glad that u guys are putting in more effort in your posts and not the usual talking about nothing at all, kudos
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