yeah....Things will only get better

Alright, I'm not a seasoned writer on local football. I still watch the S-League every now and then, just to feel close to local football. Somehow I still prefer the term "football"; soccer sounds so horrible. Most of the time, you play the ball with your feet, not too sure how would a game where people dress in armour barge around with a weird shaped object, with minimal usage of your feet and call that game "football" ?

The Yanks tried to differentiate their brand of football and the type played internationally and called it "soccer". Why soccer? Well, it's the short form for Association Football. Now, how did the term soccer came about? You take the " SOC" from Association and yeah.. Soccer.

Back to local football. Alright the Lions got into the final of the Tiger Cup. While I won't call it a huge accomplishment, but well, it's really quite a progress for them, or rather for us. Being a Singaporean, who has faithfully followed the Malaysian Cup back in the 80's and 90's, it's defintely a wonderful feeling to know that I will be joining a full house Kallang Stadium come 16th January. If you haven't experience a full house before, I tell you, it's electrifying. Wonderful!!

Thumbs up for all of you that made the effort to get the tickets. I was at the Bishan Stadium the other day and saw a Hougang NPC Police patrol car parked in front of the stadium. Well, you do see police cars parked all over the place, especially in secruity-tight Singapore, what's the big deal? But well you see, Bishan NPC is just a 10 min walk away from the Satdium ? In other words, Bishan is under Bishan NPC and not Hougang NPC, which is technically speaking, another division. Saw two officers alighting, full in their patrol gear, yeah.. t-baton and all that. They looked around, as if scanning for any suspects. Slowly they made their way to the... ticket counter.

Haha...well these officers got their tickets no doubt about it. I guess Bishan Stadium is closer to the National Stadium? It's difficult for them to visit Singapore Pools outlet in uniform to get tickets so I guess, that's one of few rare occasions that you'll see a Hougang NPC Patrol Car in Bishan.

Well, at least the officers made an effort to get the tickets to support the Lions. I've gotten a call yesterday, late at night.

" Hello ah... still got tickets or not?"

Haha... well... just like what I've posted in an earlier post, Singaporeans are famous for last minute stuff. This is no exception. Just too bad if you delayed and delayed and ended up with no tickets. Heard that the black market is selling them for up to 200 bucks.

Oh well.. I won't sell mine. Try somewhere else perhaps.