Singapore 11 - 0 Laos-sy

i just love and laugh at the title of this entry. i don't mean to be rude towards the country of Laos and the Laotian people. but the journalistic and albeit cheeky and okay, yes, offensive side of me came out in the title. that's totally me lah. pun it if you can. But hey, if i was a journalist for The New Paper, i'd use the same title as my headline. I might get the boot eleven times from my bosses after that though. :P

who knows, maybe the reporter covering the match might use the same one.. but then i scooped him on that headline. that's just assuming he decides to use it.

i've just witnessed one of the highs of Singapore football. we just whooped a minnow of south-east asian football for ELEVEN. okay, so they are pushovers.. but the goal-fest would go some way towards injecting confidence in the players for indonesia on wednesday and in the local fans in the support of their national players.

my vote for the best goal, and i'm sure that of many others, would go to Noh Alam Shah, who scored 7, yes, SEVEN, and closed the match with an audacious scissors kick, which i'm sure even Fandi would have been proud of.

think the last time Singapore recorded a big win was in the Malaysia Cup when we whooped brunei 8-nil and razzler dazzler Sundramoorthy capped the win then with a spectacular bicycle kick.

I think debutants Hafiz Osman (right-back) & substitute Isa Halim (defensive midfield) played really well despite the "laos-sy" (sorry, can't resist it..) opposition. Their good performance tonight does not necessarily guarantee a distinguished national career, but it certainly augurs well for the future of Singapore football, given that first-choice right back Subramani is 35 years young and is retiring after this tournament.

For the record, here are the goalscorers for today's match:

Singapore - 11
- Ridhuan Muhd 10,
- Noh Alam Shah 11, 24, 61, 72, 76, 88, 92
- Shahril Ishak 47
- Khairul Amri 71
- Itimi Dickson 79

Laos - 0

the commentator, dez corkhill summed it up best when he said that "..there might not be enough time for highlights after the match..".

anyone up for the game on wednesday against indonesia?

(picture taken from http://www.sleague.com)