Loh Keng Fatt says people are too concerned about watching football.
WHAT did you do last weekend? What are you planning for this Saturday and Sunday? What about next weekend?
Chances are, quite a number of people were — or will be — tuning in to football matches, even if they may not be top-drawer clashes.
Has the game become a fixture in many people's choice of weekend relaxation?
Have wives and girlfriends become soccer widows as a result?
Are fathers doing things with their children only outside football-on-TV hours?
I ask all this because I detect a growing hard core group of addicted followers.
If not, why would so many folks be super upset when it was announced that there would be a change of EPL broadcast provider, from StarHub to SingTel?
Sure, the issues they raised, from the propect of paying more to subscribe to two content providers to the incompatibility of set-top boxes were legitimate.
But the scale of the furore is such that one might be tempted to think that the fans were in danger of being denied a very basic service or need, like cheap medical care or the right to send their kid to any primary school.
It was not that long ago that Singaporeans had only one game to watch a week on television. And the luck of the programming draw meant that lousy teams were featured as often as the good ones.
Now, there are a lot more live matches to watch — not all interesting, I must say — and many people seem to be making time and space to catch as many as possible.
They ignore the fact that there are other, more worthwhile, things in life to pursue too, be it a hobby or taking the family out more often for a movie or dinner.
Certainly, I have no great desire to watch all the games. What I prefer is the option to pay only for the match I want to watch.
This will be the big game, the critical showdown, and it won’t be Arsenal vs Wigan or Liverpool vs Hull.
But I want to be there for Man U vs Liverpool.
Or Chelsea vs Man City.
If the telco can come up with a pay-for-view option, I will sign up in a jiffy. I don’t need to subscribe for a whole season’s worth of games.
Sure, life can be a ball — but not all of it should be experienced from watching the action on a field.
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A good blog to place this.
ORA ET LABORA.
An end of an era. Soon...gone forever.
The end of Bro Director in a mission school.
For all us Josephians, this is nostalgic.
To remind us of the good old days, the mee goreng in Waterloo Street, the aircon Catholic Centre,the nudge-nudge wink -wink at the convent girls across the road but most importantly, to thank the Brothers who gave us their all in teaching and wisdom. Hopefully to make us the good citizens we are today.
To remember the likes of Bro Patrick, who at 80 is still hale and hearty .
NOTE: Big renunion on 29/11/09 at SRC.
Be there.
Call anita/veronica at SJI for details.
ORA ET LABORA.
To a neutral's point of view, weekend soccer entertainment may mean nothing to them. However, to those soccer fans out there, it means a lot more.
Decisions and choices in our lives are made based on our perspective of it. Don't criticize soccer fanatics just because they choose to spend their Saturday or Sunday Nights glued to the football channel.
They have the whole day to bring their families out for a nice outing, have a filling dinner, enjoy themselves thoroughly and come home just in time for a 10pm match.
Life may not be a ball, but life is certainly round.
Life should be a ball. If it can be reported.
Am I missing something or what?
THIS is news!
One must wonder what the world's press think of Singapore!!
Law Minister Mr K. Shanmugam said in a speech in New York that Singapore's low -ranking for press freedom is absurd.
C'mon....133rd out of 175 countries is good. It could have been worse, all things considered, don't you think?
He went on to say.."Our approach on press reporting is simple: The press can criticize us, our policies. We do not seek to condemn that."
Er..helloo..first..where is there press freedom in Singapore?
Second, WHEN..ever did we EVER read of the Straits Times EVER criticising the government?
Which ST cronie would even consider writing such a piece let alone have the guts to show it to his Editor who in turn will do the only thing..and bin it.
And what then will become of the hapless ST reporter?
What of his CPF, his home, his job and his life ....all down the tube in one fell swoop.
C'mon, pull the other leg!!
When oh when...will our government and the media stop insulting our intelligence!!
Cable football does bring people together. When my extended family of uncles decide to congregate at someone's house to watch a big-ticket match, their wives and children come along too. The mothers enjoy a lot of talktime with one another and the cousins catch up on each other's progress in life.
tan kl: you say.. you smelt a rat?
THAT STINK OF SPH WAS THERE MANY YEARS AGO.
IT NEEDS FUMIGATION.
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