What a sad state of affairs that the Singapore football fraternity finds itself in. First, none of the local teams have managed to win any kind of local silverware in the past two years. Yes, all out local competitions have been won by a foreign invited team. To make things worse, the Japanese team Albirex Niigata even went the whole year unbeaten.
That is how lousy Singapore football is. And the national team? Under Sundram, they did not win any official match at all in 2017. All the so called stars of the Singapore teams now ply their footballing skills overseas, in the better leagues of Malaysia and Thailand. This November, the Singapore Lions are scheduled to play Indonesia and Timor Leste at the National Stadium for the AFF Cup group stage.
But our local football have gotten to such a bad state, that national football icon and current national coach Fandi Ahmad have to make a video appealing for fans to come down and watch! Where once fans queued for hours just for tickets to watch Singapore play, now you could probably drop in halfway through a match and still gain enough tickets for a whole army battalion! What a sad state for Singapore football.
