Salute to the Lions!!!

Goalkeeper - Lionel Lewis

Defenders - Subramani, Aide Iskandar(cpt), Baihakki Khaizan, Daniel Bennett

Midfielders - Itimi Dickson, Goh Tat Chuan, Hasrin Jailani, Sharil Ishak

Forwards - Indra Sahdan Daud, Agu Casmir

Let's salute these players for bringing so much joy to the Nation.

Sorry, the pics are not very clear cos it's taken using my handphone.

Thanks to our dear Mr Lin Weiting who joined the long queue on the 1st day of the sales, we managed to grab 8 gallery tickets for the Tiger Cup final!!! Above is my tix. Weiting, Hanfeng, Zhixiang, Eric, Zhonghong, Sweekim and I are going. YEAH!!!


We entered the Stadium at 1700 sharp after supered skill of queue-cutting by horse and me. We were seated just next to the Grand Stand!!! It has a very good view of the pitch and the main crowd at the east stand!!!! Look at the crowd and the field. A sea of Red. It's only 1715 and the match will only start in another 2hr+ time.


The Lions coming out to greet the fans upon reaching the stadium at 1745.


Horse and me went out of the stadium at about 1815, wanting to go to Kallang Leisure Centre to buy dinner. But KNN, the whole complex 倒闭 already, 白跑一趟. And by the time we reached back the staidum at around 1850, though we holding pass instead of ticket since we already entered the stadium at 1700. Pissed, gotta bash through this crowd to join back the gang. This is only the entrance of the North Gate lor!!! Can imagine how many people around?


During the singing of National Anthems. 1st time singing it since my commission last year. haha. Anyway Indon's anthem sux man. very erxin!!!!


Some goal-mouth action. Anyway Singapore Team's Physio is very chio. Throughout the match, besides cheering for singapore, jeering the ref and indons and doing kallang waves, we were shouting the name of the singapore's physio!! Yeo Hwee Koon, she's really quite chio!!!


Do not need to talk too much about the match!!! Indra and Casmir scored for Singapore to earn a 2-1 victory on the night and 5-2 on aggregate. Singapore lifted the Cup and Lionel Lewis the MVP of the tournament.


The whole team parading the trophy round the Stadium!!!

HAHA. Anyway i think having 55000 pple watching a soccer match together in a stadium, all supporting for the same team, wearing the same colour is really a very rare experience. We can truly feel the atmosphere in the stadium even on our way there!!! In the mrt to Kallang, i can already see a lot of pple in Red. HAHA, i wearing the official fan-wear for Lion Supporter, the "There is a Tiger behind every Lion" T-Shirt. I think tt's damn cool, dunno why 1 of my friends says it's ugly!!!

I and horse reached Kallang MRT at 1555 and the station was already so crowded that waiting was not allowed at the station control!!! By the time we reached the stadium at 1645, the empty space outside the stadium was full of reds. If we followed the queue to enter the stadium, we would be at the very back!!! Lucky we very thick-skin one, cut queue and when we were inside, we managed to find seats nxt to the grand-stand!!! a very clear and supered view!!!!

Anyway for the atmosphere and the details of the match, go and read your newspaper!!! What i want to discuss here is the reason behind the victory!!! The media and the players give the credit to coach Raddy Avramovic.

Yes, of course Raddy is the architect for this success. The team now play with more discipline and brain. How the coach achieve that??? It's by choosing less and less Malays in the Starting-XI. Scroll up tot he top of the page to look at the team-sheet again. For the first time in my memory, there's less than 50% of Malays in the starting line-up. Only 5 Malays started the final.

Maybe that's the reason why Sinagpore is able to lift the Cup. Follow the right track and it can lead to even greater height!!!