Support Our Local Football Team?
Lately I’ve been hearing on the radio about how important it is to support your local football team in Malaysia. There's this couple of guys with western accent talking about how great the match between two local team that they witness last night followed by two local guys telling which EPL football club they support. It’s been aired again and again with the attention of getting us local to support our own local team and not those from EPL. It’s a good idea actually but how much exposure do these local teams have on TV (local media)…
Take for an example; how many times do you have the chance to see Sabah's state team playing live on TV? Sarawak? Melaka? Not much isn’t it…I dare say that I haven’t seen much of the smaller teams on TV at all. Even those matches between bigger team shown on TV are sometimes recorded ones. Do you still feel the excitement watching recorded matches knowing well how the score lines ends? I don’t…
As much as I want to, it’s just a pain in the @$$ when it comes to getting the latest information about the status of our league...try going to FAM website. Add that with the bewildered league system we have here in Malaysia, we get a blank pakcik that don’t know which league his state team is playing in. For all I know, we have the “Liga Super” that Sabah isn’t playing in. I miss the simple league system that we have before. Simple and tidy I might say. The new system/format isn’t producing any outstanding local player, only foreign ones (not that I don’t like them). Plus that with so many different leagues we have here in Malaysia, we really do have a lot of foreign players playing here. Why not ask them to wear our national jersey? We are loosing a lot of money on them anyway…
Just to let you all know, I'm not against the call to support local teams. I also know that there's a lot of us Malaysian here who really want to. It's just that it isn't making any sense to support a team that you can't even see playing on local TV station. And please...don't even ask me about the playing level of our local players...
Take for an example; how many times do you have the chance to see Sabah's state team playing live on TV? Sarawak? Melaka? Not much isn’t it…I dare say that I haven’t seen much of the smaller teams on TV at all. Even those matches between bigger team shown on TV are sometimes recorded ones. Do you still feel the excitement watching recorded matches knowing well how the score lines ends? I don’t…
As much as I want to, it’s just a pain in the @$$ when it comes to getting the latest information about the status of our league...try going to FAM website. Add that with the bewildered league system we have here in Malaysia, we get a blank pakcik that don’t know which league his state team is playing in. For all I know, we have the “Liga Super” that Sabah isn’t playing in. I miss the simple league system that we have before. Simple and tidy I might say. The new system/format isn’t producing any outstanding local player, only foreign ones (not that I don’t like them). Plus that with so many different leagues we have here in Malaysia, we really do have a lot of foreign players playing here. Why not ask them to wear our national jersey? We are loosing a lot of money on them anyway…
Just to let you all know, I'm not against the call to support local teams. I also know that there's a lot of us Malaysian here who really want to. It's just that it isn't making any sense to support a team that you can't even see playing on local TV station. And please...don't even ask me about the playing level of our local players...
Labels: Rants
hehe FAM = Fools and Morons. last week they postponed Sabah's match 2 days before actual match.
our football can never get better with the old cocky ruler still at the helm....
Posted by
mrBadak |
9:22 am
mrbadak
~I did not even know about that...just see how hard it is to get info on our own local team...and they say we aren't patriotic...
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Anonymous |
11:32 am