what i learnt from soccer today

almost had a cardiac arrest while watching liverpool vs real betis this morning. in my totally soccer noob opinion, technically liverpool was the less lousy team between the two. BUT HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT STEVEN GERRARD HAD 9 SHOTS ON TARGET BUT DID NOT EVEN SCORE ONE??? yes i counted. and that peter crouch spent most of the game crouching and curling up in pathetic defeat after missing countless chances again and again at the goal. is that what happens when there is almost zero chemistry between the players? and that cisse is another story altogether. he was so significantly insignificant, with his selfish plays, trying to force the goal. to me, he's the guy who hit and cursed at a BOY for taunting him in a park while the former was filming a commercial. what a loser! sissy cisse. 9 SHOTS!! grrr. van nistelrooy would have needed only 3 chances to get one in. argh. such a frustrating match.

THEN i had to ask for it and watch the singapore vs indonesia SEA games soccer game. during this game, i learnt a few things.

1. Lionel Lewis is good for nothing but scratching his thighs and hitching his shorts up.
2. singaporean soccer players think that the best way to defend their goal is to freeze, rooted to the spot, hoping that their psychic power would deflect the ball magically away.
3. indonesian players think that a soccer match is a pseudo-wrestling match- poke, push and jab when you feel like it.
4. indonesian players also have never heard of man-on-man defence; like bees to honey, as soon as a singaporean player gets the ball, at least two or three of them tries to tau pok him.
5. never watch a SEA games soccer game, ever.

but it's pretty cool that there's a player on the singapore squad- the only useful one, i dare say- named precious. well, sounds like it. and he certainly proved to be precious indeed when he saved the goalie's ass when he deflected the nearly-in goal away to safety.

that's why real men play rugby.