today marked the end of the national stadium. but seriously, did they really have to make such a big fuss about it? i mean, yeah , the football games with Malaysia and Australia, good idea, but whats up with the olympic-esque ceremonies, like the carrying of the torch by our "world-class" athletes like REMY ONG (rolling balls on polished lanes in air con. why the hell is bowling a sport anyway?) I think the SSC forgot about the fact that in our illustrious donkey years competing in the olympics, we have won a grand total of 1 medal( silver, mind you), and even that, was during a time when sports was not as prominent as it is today. Although Today newspaper is able to recollect every second of our "heroic triumphs" at the stadium ( i can count them on 1 hand), why is it that they seem to have developed partial amnesia, forgetting about the many many many many many times when Singapore got raped at that very ground? come on, SSC. wake up and smell the roses. In order for sports to excel in Singapore, we need to be nurturing talent at a young and tender age. kids need to kick balls around even before they learn their ABCs. which, in a Singaporean context, is quite impossible. While children in England and Brazil are growing up playing football in the streets, we are having maths, science, english and mother tongue tuition. i think it would be more realistic to extend Goal 2010 a few hundred years or so, maybe when cyborgs hit the fields instead of humans. it takes much more than 3 years to change a lifestyle.

Australia beat Singapore 3-0. A fitting end to the "Field of Dreams", where Dreams are invoked( stimulated by watching our side play soccer), and we can only dream. dream on.


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