Lets look at the Football Association of Ireland. It is stuffed full of cronies, corruption, leakages, patronage, know who rather than know how. Unfortunately, this is from a developed, “First World” country. The Gaelic Athletic Association suffers from the same problems on a National scale.

Or Italian Football, and when it comes to corruption and Italy, they wrote the manual and exported it. You need only look at their Prime Minister for proof of that, and I’d be more concerned about “crossing” Silvio Berlesconi than Mahathir, Daim , Khairy or Najib.

I have’nt even mentioned speculation and the effect of gaming syndicates in Asia on match fixing, were’nt some Malaysians involved in turning the lights out when Fulham were playing a few years back. Or the antics of Bruce Grobelaar? Gaming is a useful vehicle for entertainment. Its also a useful vehicle for exposing corrupt practices provided its legalised, taxed and regulated, since market moves will raise a Red Flag. Even take a look at two of the most honest countries going according to Transparency International (Denmark and Sweden), in the 2004 European Cup, they played each other. Provided the score was 2-2 they both went through, and knocked Italy out of their group due to goal difference. The dividend for a 2-2 score is normally 15.0. It dropped to 6.50. The final score….

The fundamental difference is that there is a talent pool in both respective nations, and a decent supporting infrastructure. The average professional footballer is not going to be academically gifted enough to survive in other fields in the private sector outside of football. Less than 1% of those who aspire to be the next Beckham, Best or Pele ever get a chance of getting there, and ALL sports are like that in terms of the difficulties in getting to the top.

Finally, the MACC. They engage in selective prosecution, and are yet another toothless Tiger. The real fun and games are starting with this week at PWTC, and that will be a part of the city to be avoided, as there is certain to be trouble of some kind amongst the dumbo Youth.

cicak – By turning out to vote at the next elections.

stupe – I disagree – it all starts with politics. Because when they siphon money out of sports, you will only have peanuts. And when you have peanuts, you will only attract monkeys. And with pathetic pay, you think the educated would be interested? That’s why there’s also bribery. Trust me, it all starts with politics.

Nick Phillips – Well, anything and politics don’t go together. Yeah, but imagine if Nicole David was a bumi? A datukship title is worthless these days when every tom dick and his balls can get a hold of it.

wel – Where there is money, there is politicians, natural parasites.

The only sport that is doing well is Squash and I hope no greedy politician gets his grubby hands on that sport.

It’s sad to see really, thinking back, i was a hardcore Selangor supporter since as far as i could remember. Who(my peers) would had forgotten who Karel Stromsik was? My late father in law was good friend with Soh Chin Aun and if you speak to the old man now, he is still full of passion. Ask him why football decline…he will not have any answer!

The passion is all gone (for the players nowadays).

As for badminton, THe biggest mistake the government made was when they offered money to the winner of the Thomas Cup back in 1994 (?) where the Sidek brothers spent it all on cars (STI’s) and their Perodua dealership went under the drain. Only Foo Kok Keong did the right thing by investing into his business.

Nowaday, the players (Badminton) has lost it. While other country are constantly churning out new players every other tournament, we are still counting on the “has been”.

Lets not even go to Hockey for now.

They even help us to keep our money in their own pocket just in case we misused it, wasted it, or being cheated by some guys in their suite. We are so naive ^^ Thanks to our beloved government, now we finally going to make another huge step in earning some big cash for our own country.

badminton? whats that? lets just stick with congkak and guli ^^

They even help us to keep our money in their own pocket just in case we misused it, wasted it, or being being cheated by some guys in their suite. We are so naive ^^ Thanks to our beloved government, now we finally going to make another huge step in earning some big cash for our own country.

badminton? whats that? lets just stick with congkak and guli ^^