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hAhaz~ Singapore won the Tiger Cup 2005 with a aggregate score of 5-2!!

watching the match at home and watching it at in national stadium is certainly different. thank God there are soccer fanatics in Security and Brother TaiFong managed to get the tickets for those who were interested in going.

so, off we went to the national stadium.

the queue was SUPER DUPER long!! practically everyone was squeezing and trying to enter the gates and somehow, we managed to get to our seats with 1 minute to settle down.

when the game started, cheers erupted. but when the indo players gained possession, the ENTIRE stadium started booing them~ LoLz!! every single touch was met with a resounding jeer~

suddenly after 10 minutes and a blunder from a indo defender, Singapore scored the first goal of the match!! it happened so fast that we didn't really notice how did it happen, only until the people around us started cheering.

the atmosphere charged up and everyone was singing, cheering and doing the KALLANG WAVE!! HAhaz=P

then, the match got REALLY boring. the singapore defenders were just pumping the ball up to the strikers and all the strikers do is just sprint after the ball. there wasn't much proper build up of play and most of the players didn't control the ball.

so it was like - ball come, whack away.

until the moment when a Singapore player was brought down in the penalty box, everyone started cheering, and jeering at the indo players, the atmosphere charged up again~ Agu Kasmir scored from the spot and the stadium erupted.

most of the time, Brother TaiFong, Bro Michael, KaiKeong, Cain and i were entertaining ourselves~ when the second half started, the referee went on a yellow card spree and started giving out SO MANY yellow cards!! it even resulted in a Singapore player getting sent off because its his second yellow card.

most of the fouls committed by the indo players were left unnoticed, but MINOR fouls by the Singapore players were met with yellow cards~ shEeShHhh.. referee kelong manz!!

anyway, the match got exciting towards the end when Singapore finally played proper soccer and controlled the game pretty well, though indo scored a goal back.

after the prize presentation and stuffs, we headed to the old airport market and had our dinner. met up with Brother ChongKeng and other security personnels and talked about the match~ most of us had siminar thoughts that the game was pretty boring~ loLz=P

it was the crowd that made the experience lively, not the game. loLz=P