GentlyWeeping

Went to watch the Singapore-Lebanon world cup qualifier on Wednesday, pretty cool match I must say. Not watched a live match since the 2005 Singapore cup final and was starting forget the whole atmosphere and thrill from watching two teams battling out in front of me.

Singapore foorball has to be a very adequate expression of Singaporean culture I must say, what is Singaporean culture then (can it even be defined)probably not but i would like to say that what you see in Football matches probably reflects some elements of our culture.
Example, the fact that we can never be satisfied. we were up 2 goals and yet we were complaining, i was no exception of course. 2 goals where got enough? watching bloody Khairu Amri strolling in an offside position was super frustrating. This probably reflects our whole competitive, cut throat culture we have here, nothing is ever enough, always need to get the best and latest of everything. Of course I am generalising but I would like to suggest that one cannot deny this element of our culture.
The fact that we openly curse and swear at the players during the matches probably also reflects this whole opressive atmosphere we are in, we always seem constrained in our ability to speak our mind. Usually this happens in the whole concept of respect, and the whole frustration of it all seems to express itself during football matches where we are somewhat free from authoritative structures.
OF course one may say that I am probably reading too much into everything, but since whatever we do is guided by our cultural environment i would think its a pretty adequate argument