Ugly people

After watching the Tiger Cup semi-final second leg between Singapore and Myanmar on Channel 5 last night, I was pretty relieved I did not carry out what I originally set out to do, which is to watch the live soccer game at the national stadium. Thanks to the rain of course.

I watched. The game went into extra-time. The drama went into overhaul.




It was ugly.


The soccer pitch was water-logged and muddy, the slippery conditions forced the already unskillful players to be even more inept. The football was pretty shitty. Of course, deep down you will still be rooting for your country considering they had an advantage in the first leg and of course being a Singaporean.


So in the end Singapore won with 4 Myanmar player sent off. One for two bookable offences, one for a late lunge on a player, one for kicking mud on the officials and one for throwing a water bottle at a Singapore player and injuring him. The Myanmar team were behaving very much like hooligans on the pitch and such gamesmanship left me bewildered.


Unknowingly, i was mouthing some vulgarites when the reserve goalkeeper of the Myanmar team admitted at throwing the water bottle on a Singapore player's face. He was sent back to the dressing room, clearly unhappy and unrepentant about his disgusting behaviour, thrusting his hips and swinging his arms when the Singapore fans taunt him. The Singapore supporters probably felt the same way as me. Who are these bloody ruffians in my country?

Expectedly, there were some minor brawls between the Singapore and Myanmar supporters, dustbins thrown around, fingers here and there and no short of variety of foul language. A Myanmar fan apparently got smashed in the head with a whisky bottle by some Singapore fans and got admitted to hospital.


So yes, the Singaporeans are also the culprits of such senseless meelees.


In the end, it doesn't matter if it's Myanmese ( i hope that's right ) or Singporean, many people in the world are still incredibly stupid and seneless. These are the thugs, the gangsters, the losers who resort to violence. These are the stupid people that the terrorist groups and triads recruit to kill more people in the world.

The world should really grow up and get wiser. We need to set things striaght in our education systems. We need to mould our people to have at least that little bit of sanity. Logic with a fair sense of intuition and character. Ironically, it is moral education that people dread and it is precisely the thing that people are severely deprived of. But that is for the education ministers to think about and sort it out. We dun pay for taxes for nothing.

So, like that reserve Myanmar goalkeeper for example. It just takes one person to spark a fight, a brawl and a war. We cannot allow our societies to breed such people.
We constantly forget the world's greatest weapon is the human mind. We have to make full use of that in the right way. Human morality and logical behaviour have to be emphasised and re-imposed individually and domestically at a global scale before we can tackle uncertainties, wars, crisises in the future.

All it takes is one human being.