Singapore vs Australia

Singapore vs Australia is an interesting match. It's not the straightforward one way traffic that many people might have expected before the match. It was nice to turn on the TV at 40 min and see that Australia hadn't broken Singapore down. Eventually Singapore's defence gave way after Kewell and Viduka cut them open, but Singapore were denied by the woodwork twice. Another case of the scoreline giving them an unflattering impression. 3-2 would have been a more accurate reflection of how things went. It's almost a form of flattery that these guys started hacking a few of our players down. But why do this sort of thing in the last football match played at the Kallang stadium?

A few weeks ago, they posted this article by this dimwit for Soccernet. Minus 10 marks for failing to mention that that match was supposed to be the closing ceremony for Kallang stadium.
And this guy had the temerity to suggest that Australia is the home team simply because people watch a lot of EPL. It's like saying that Wembley has a lot of Arsenal fans who would cheer Thierry Henry on in a England vs France match. It doesn't work that way. It's almost like saying that Singaporeans have no national pride. Abbas Saad is considered one of Kallang Stadium's legends, of course, but only when he's wearing the red shirt.

If Australia were to play against Italy in the world cup (they came within a hair's breadth of knocking the eventual champion out) we would cheer for Australia, because they are almost an Asian side. If they were to play any other Asian team, we would cheer that Asian team. Even if that Asian team is Japan.

He also denigrated the quality of the Australians who played for Singapore, saying they wouldn't make it anywhere else. I heard that Abbas Saad won a few caps for Australia, so I wonder where that bullshit came from.

At least he mentioned the Malaysia cup matches, but he said that the matches were political because of the split from Malaysia. I think it'd be more accurate to say that every Malaysia Cup match, and every Malaysia Premier League match involving Singapore and any other team is a derby match. If Celtic or Rangers were to join the EPL then that's more or less what they'd expect.