Sports or music?? I'll do sports again

Ahhhhh, sports; the all time favorite of us Malaysians, its either we like playing sports or we like watching sports. The late nights at the mamak stall watching football matches and sipping on the tarik. That’s the life, other people might think we’re crazy to be out so late at night just to watch a football game but the experience and the friend bonding is seriously awesome!!! Now, let me tell you what I think about Malaysian sports. Okay, let’s start with badminton. We all know that our beloved country is ranked one of the best in the world of badminton, thanks to Datuk Lee Chong Wei and the other players. He really has outdone himself and put Malaysia on the world map and let people know that Malaysia is actually good in sports (certain sport’s that is).

As good as we are on badminton; every dog has its day. Malaysia lost to Japan in the first time of history of the Thomas Cup Finals. Everyone was stunned, even my mom. No one ever thought that we will lose to Japan. It was really disappointing but it was a good game, that’s for sure. Well, maybe not. You see an incident occurred after the Japan game, doubles shuttler Mohd Fairuzizuan lost his cool after losing the game to Japan. The ugly incident took place after he retaliated to the foul language and a vulgar sign showed by a fan. Seriously, you’re a fan of Malaysia and this is how you show support to your country player? Sure, we might have lost, but we can’t win every time right? Now the poor guy has to receive disciplinary actions.

Okay now, enough about badminton. Let’s talk about football, I’m sure most of us are football fans right?? Sadly, I’m not talking about English football; I’m talking about Malaysian football. Yes, when people talk about English football, they have that happy joyful look in their eyes, but when it comes to Malaysian football, no one talks much about it. I’m sure there’s a good reason why people do not support our local teams. To start with, our local team has never really won any games other than Sea games. Well, maybe not Sea games, we are practically at the bottom of the barrel. Even Myanmar can beat us at football. Compare Myanmar to our country, we are so much better off and developed compared to them, and yet they are able to beat us. It’s a real shame actually, we are from Asia but it doesn’t mean we can’t qualify for the world cup. We should follow the footsteps of countries like Japan, Korea and China. South Korea even has a player playing for Manchester United, to have an Asian playing for an English Club, is something to be proud off.

Other than that, our Malaysian hockey team is doing alright. We are just one point below third place, but India is doing really well with ten points under their belt. China and Egypt are at the bottom two, with one and null respectively. Oh well, at least we’re not at the bottom.