Tag: football
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Global Hub For Football Match Fixing
Jialat man. Our legit brands (apart from SIA) still struggle to make a dent internationally, and this fella stamps his authority globally simply by buying greedy football players and referees! Our Ya Kun Kayas and Crystal Jades mais well give up. The magnitude of the unfolding match-fixing scandal is mind boggling. English football matches and…
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StarHub Loves Every Football Loving Bro (And Chick)
I have often been frowned on by people when I refer to the sport as “soccer”. I never knew how much people here love football. And with these lovers of football, I have something special to share. But first, let me tell you why Americans and Australians sometimes call it soccer. When the game as…
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Thank you, Lion Cubs
I must have been one of the biggest skeptics of the inaugural Games, but over the last 12 days, I’ve been treated to some of the best things it has brought to our shores. I’m just hoping we’ll forget trying to show the world how we can do this and do that – it may…
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Gold for Singapore football?
OK chope. I’ve only just discovered that there are only 6 teams competing in the Youth Olympic Games football competition. So it’s not exactly a world stage for our boys due to a ruling that each country can be represented in only two team sports at the Games. That means the chances of a gold…
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Local hero: Fandi Ahmad
16 July 1982: Ajax Amsterdam offers Fandi a three year contract Fandi Ahmad got his first pair of football boots when he was 12. You’d think he’d have owned a pair earlier, or even been born wearing them. But early in his career (he started playing for school at 10), he wore hockey boots with…