singapore won 2-1 to thailand.
couldn't understand what was so good about soccer. to me,it is just 20 people chasing after a ball, having 2 people standing at the 2 different goal posts to guard their territory, waiting for the ball to come to them and try to stop the ball. no offense to people who are into soccer. :X
but then i realised that most sports seem to be stupid. for basketball,it is 10 people snatching one ball dribbling it around and trying to score goals. for both badminton and tennis,it is hitting the shuttercock/tennis ball away from each other without them landing on the floor. and golf it is to hit the golf ball as far away from you as possible and get it into a hole. the faster the better.
and i couldn't figure out why some people can be that crazy about soccer to wake up in the middle of the night just to support their favourite team. i would rather sleep on. perhaps it is just like the passion i have for basketball, willing to travel all the way to SP to watch SIM play against the others in IVP. it is the passion,i suppose.
but that was before i went to the stadium to watch the match today. the atmosphere at the stadium was great! =) fabulous.
singaporeans can be rather united at times when the referee seemed to be biased against us in the soccer pit. i wonder would we be as united if a disabled person is discriminated by the same referee (for example) at some other places. will there be people jumping into the defense of the handicapped? i suppose not but i guess not. back to esap(which i learn from sharon and sonia), we are all majority. it would take a minority to take the action before others follow suit. all the jeering and cheering at the stadium was initiated by a minority and the rest followed suit. like the kallang wave. there got to be a person who started it before the wave can actually be formed.
the match wasn't very exciting. especially in the beginning. the actions came in when singapore scored the first goal in the game. i dunno how to describe the feeling but it felt like it was the long awaited goal (though it is only like 17 min away from the start of the game.) but glad we got in the first goal. =)
then they caught us unaware in the 50th min almost after the half time (i suppose that is what the soccer people call it? i am more of a basketball person.. :p) and i suppose our defenders were sometimes quite cocked up.(no offense) one of them (i dunno the name) almost headed the ball into the singapore goal post (the area where thailand score) and that would have been own-goal sia. but we were lucky that didnt happen.
then when the eight minutes remaining,the thai got a penalty and we had a free kick. and the drama arised. i suppose the coach of thailand feel that the referee was biased against them and signaled all their players to get off the pitch. which i supposed was an abnormal move. coz there are people jeering at them saying that this is soccer and not basketball, no time-out.
most of us thought that the game will be over as thailand abandoned their game. and they would have been disqualified. and we would have been the winner!!! haha.. but they chose to go back to the soccer field after about 15 minutes of discussion.. which caused most of the singaporeans to boo and jeer. this had never happened before i suppose. and to the book of law (mr lee), any abandon of the field would have caused them to be disqualified.
but anyway, the game continued. the referee allowed them to play anyway. and we scored again from the free kick. and after that there was quite a lot of excitement though it is like 14 min away from the time the game end.
and we won 2-1.
to sum out everything in just one word: wow. =D
so glad that i had this opportunity to go watch. it was a wonderful experience. =)
thanks eugene for asking me along. =)
p/s: all the minutes and stuff were from the straits times. otherwise wont be that accurate. :)
p/p/s: enjoyed the KTV session in the morning. been quite some time since i last went to KTV. and i sang quite a number of songs i had never sing before. quite an achievement. =) but perhaps this will be the last session since exams are really coming soon. *stressed*






