Monday, January 29, 2007
When the Lions Roar
Last Saturday was memorable, truly my first time in 24 years. We actually bought tickets to watch Singapore VS Malaysia for the Asean Championship. *wahaha!*
The fact that we whacked Laos like crazy made me abit proud of our home team. The fact that we had a draw 1-1 with Malaysia (who has always been our very strong competitor) when we were playing on their grounds, made me abit curious about who will emerge as the better men on the 2nd match. The fact that the match took place at the Kallang stadium, made me abit enthusiastic to go since it's going to be taken down soon.
Luckily the rain was not significant enough to affect the match, if not we will have to hide under newspapers, whip out our ponchos or put the very oh biang plastic bags over our heads, those red colour ones they give you when u buy vege or fish from the market lah.
I must say I am stunned at the crowd who turned up. Almost the entire round of the spectator stand was occupied and even halfway into the match, there was still human traffic constantly streaming in it, looked like nomads migrating; everybody obviously wants to be a part of the action.
Malaysia supporters occupied one tiny column of the stand, wearing yellow & I must say their group is pretty tiny as compared to the proportion of the Lions' supporters but they were quite loud & sounded quite pro in cheering still, so kudos to that! We had almost everybody on our side donning red a.k.a our national colour, as a display of support. Therefore, couldn't help but felt abit Kuakuakuakua...when the Lions appeared in blue jersey that night. (-_-)
Anyway, the atmosphere was damn high, ok maybe we were high. We cheered, jeered, scolded, yelled, hollered, kallang-waved, clapped, got nerve-wrecked, all in unity, oh and plus the swearing was pretty united as well. *lol* Everybody broke out in laughter when some random ah beng screamed "hoi! Nab** C***B**!!!" It's weird how vulgarity can suddenly seem so amusing in that setting.
Much as I thought it was pretty unnecessary to shower so much jeering towards the opposite team, everybody had no qualms of making it evident that we didn't have much sportsmanship. *lol* It was still funny to hear people yell things like "Referee Kayuuu!" or "Mai geh geh lah!!" or "Go home sleep lah!!" and erm...some other not so politically-correct stuff which i shall not mention here. But all were in the name of fun & it was honestly, simply for the sake of yelling lah. No harm done. We did applaud the opposition, when they walked towards us at the end of the match though! :)
I think it was seriously more happening than NDP. It was my first time hearing & seeing Singaporeans sing the anthem with so much gusto & pride. We had sore throats after which manz...Haha...soccer is rowdy but indeed a very influential sport...What else can I say but...Power to the People! ¶ J poppycocked at 6:26:00 PM
Last Saturday was memorable, truly my first time in 24 years. We actually bought tickets to watch Singapore VS Malaysia for the Asean Championship. *wahaha!*
The fact that we whacked Laos like crazy made me abit proud of our home team. The fact that we had a draw 1-1 with Malaysia (who has always been our very strong competitor) when we were playing on their grounds, made me abit curious about who will emerge as the better men on the 2nd match. The fact that the match took place at the Kallang stadium, made me abit enthusiastic to go since it's going to be taken down soon.
Luckily the rain was not significant enough to affect the match, if not we will have to hide under newspapers, whip out our ponchos or put the very oh biang plastic bags over our heads, those red colour ones they give you when u buy vege or fish from the market lah.
I must say I am stunned at the crowd who turned up. Almost the entire round of the spectator stand was occupied and even halfway into the match, there was still human traffic constantly streaming in it, looked like nomads migrating; everybody obviously wants to be a part of the action.
Malaysia supporters occupied one tiny column of the stand, wearing yellow & I must say their group is pretty tiny as compared to the proportion of the Lions' supporters but they were quite loud & sounded quite pro in cheering still, so kudos to that! We had almost everybody on our side donning red a.k.a our national colour, as a display of support. Therefore, couldn't help but felt abit Kuakuakuakua...when the Lions appeared in blue jersey that night. (-_-)
Anyway, the atmosphere was damn high, ok maybe we were high. We cheered, jeered, scolded, yelled, hollered, kallang-waved, clapped, got nerve-wrecked, all in unity, oh and plus the swearing was pretty united as well. *lol* Everybody broke out in laughter when some random ah beng screamed "hoi! Nab** C***B**!!!" It's weird how vulgarity can suddenly seem so amusing in that setting.
Much as I thought it was pretty unnecessary to shower so much jeering towards the opposite team, everybody had no qualms of making it evident that we didn't have much sportsmanship. *lol* It was still funny to hear people yell things like "Referee Kayuuu!" or "Mai geh geh lah!!" or "Go home sleep lah!!" and erm...some other not so politically-correct stuff which i shall not mention here. But all were in the name of fun & it was honestly, simply for the sake of yelling lah. No harm done. We did applaud the opposition, when they walked towards us at the end of the match though! :)
I think it was seriously more happening than NDP. It was my first time hearing & seeing Singaporeans sing the anthem with so much gusto & pride. We had sore throats after which manz...Haha...soccer is rowdy but indeed a very influential sport...What else can I say but...Power to the People! ¶ J poppycocked at 6:26:00 PM