Kingdom Of Castle Peak

I believe this is going to be the talk of the week or the month by every Singaporean or Thai that have watched the match. A very strong support of 55,000 audience at the Singapore National Stadium, probably the last official match held in there.

The match ended 2-1, either half scoring one with a penalty given to Singapore at the 83th minute. Singapore will be bringing this scoreline to Bangkok, Thailand on the return leg. But this will not be the talk of the week or month that i was talking about. It will be about the penalty given by the referee at the 83th minute, over the challenge of Singapore striker Alam Shah. However, even with today's technology, the replays were unable to show a distinct view for anyone of us to confirm whether the decision by the referee was the right one. Well, i believe that the challenge if outside the penalty will be given a foul, but being inside and foul, the decision by the referee is going to be big as it will make a difference in the score. I guess everyone tomorrow will be talking about it, but i would like to bring it to another level. I would like to actually question about the match officials. Although i have not played international football, or understand the difference between English or Asean football, but i believe that the same FAS rules apply. It shouldn't be much of a difference, and why is it that the Thais were able to just walk out of the field and gathering together at the Thailand corner, staying there for full 15 minutes and worst is, the match officials were unable to get the Thais to get back the game. Even after they come back to the game, the game was extended and i don't see a reason why there should be extra time given since it was the Thais that wasted their time instead of getting back to the game.

As watched in outside cups on tv, even if the referee gives a wrong decision, the players can only be unhappy about the decisions given and they still have to be back to the game playing. Moreover, European finals are only playing once in a neutral field, and Asean Championship are already going to have 2 legs so although going back with a goal down, they still have 90 minutes to play for, and playing in their very own homeground, they shouldn't be so upset about it and concentrate in their game if they wants to win it the 4th time. As both countries are past winners, they should be concentrating in the win for the Asean Championship again, bringing glory to their country.