Singapore football sucks!!!

The Singapore U23 football team loses to 1-2 to Vietnam in the opening game of the SEA games in Manila. Don't be fooled by the scoreline. Singapore deserves to lose by a bigger margin because they literally play like crap, and simply because they are not good enough. Time and again, the inherent flaw in our national team has been exposed cruelly by our opponents. Imagine the feeling of dejavu and helplessness when your national team concedes a goal at the very last minutes of the first half... again. Just what is up with our national soccer players?!!!

If you were to ask me, I don't think there is very much difference between the two sides in terms of the skill level to begin with. What is lacking in us, is that we have a WEAK mentality. We just don't seem to have the winning mentality inculcated within our players. The confidence is lacking, not to mention the drive, the hunger and obviously the pride and passion in playing for the national team.

What we are lacking in may be attributed to the fact that our Singaporean players have it too good going for them. That is, living in a far developed country that has everything one can possibly ask for. We have become soft over the years, or rather, we were never tough before. Vietnamese players, as well as those from other developing countries that only recently began to prosper have more hunger and bite than our own lions... I mean pussycats because they are very much depending on their survival instincts, much like their countrymen to survive in this competitive world we live in today.

It pained me so much to see the equalising goal go in for Vietnam but I forced myself to sit through the second half. It was the same old story, I saw no improvements for our team and once Vietnam had taken the lead after going behind, I said to myself: "That's it, I had enough of this nonsense." I switched off the TV immediately. Our national football team is a sad and sorry bunch of never-was and will continue to be a joke to the footballing fraternity. And did you say we won the Tiger cup only this year? Ah, tyco only lah, we only played well because the other teams didn't.

As they say, form is transient, class is not. Our boys DON'T have any class at all. Period.