Battle of the Boys?

While hiphop continues to be the modern art form of the dance scene, it seems that football has also taken on a form of it's own.

Here's why...

Nothing's going past me today

colourblind? tackling their own teammates!

i want nobody nobody, but the ball! i want nobody nobody but the ball...

Singapore's funniest football bloopers

Would you think players are in the pitch just to play some football? Well...think again.

These jokers sure know how to lap up the spectators with their unexplainable antics.

get past my backside and i'll let you score

thought that stunt belonged to the bowling alley?

someone farted and pretend nobody knows

instead of chasing the ball, someone chose to look for his 50 cents

fashion show? the latest 2010 midriff baring jersey

Top Scorer Chart - Matchday 3

21 - Muhd Hazly Bin Shamad (BM)

12 - Ahmad Khidhir Bin Khairul Anuar (MP)

11 - Karthigesan s/o Vijaykumar (GW)

8 - Muhd Khairulnizam B Kamis (BK)
8 - Muhd Sharul Bin Omar (BK)
8 - Muhd Harry Bin Abdul Rahman (MacP)

7 - Radin Zainuddin Bin Radin Badruddin (AMK)

6 - Noorisham B Rizam (AMK)
6 - Suresh Kumar (GW)
6 - Abdul Khaliq Bin Idris (MP)

5 - Sabir Da Silva (GW)
5 - Mohd Afiq B Abdul Rahman (BK)
5 - Noraliff B Mohd Noor (BM)
5 - Farid Moktar (SB)
5 - Muhd Luqman Bin Riffin (MP)

4 - Muhd Zaki Bin Azman (AMK)
4 - Noralim B Mohd Noor (BM)
4 - Muhd Fadhil Bin Johar (SB)
4 - Muhd Zharif Bin Abdul Aziz (SB)
4 - Mohd Shalan Bin Mohd Noor (BM)
4 - Muhd Ikhsan Bin Mohd Nizah (GW)
4 - Shafiyuddin Bin Mansor (MP)

3 - Mathan Kumar (MacP)
3 - Huzaifah Abdul Aziz (MP)
3 - Muhd Shah Bin Jafridin (AMK)
3 - Mohd Danial B Zainalabidin (TJ)
3 - Muhd Aidil B Shahrin (BM)
3 - Mb Azree Aszeman (BM)
3 - Muhd Firdaus Bin Ramli (GW)
3 - Sazali Bin Mohd Ali (SB)
3 - Aidil Iskandar Bin Salman (MP)

2 - Mohd Faiz Bin Jafridin (AMK)
2 - Muhd Firdaus Bin Ramli (GW)
2 - Shafiee Bin Abdul Wahab (GW)
2 - Subramaniam s/o Thanabalan (MacP)
2 - Irfan Azaman (SB)
2 - Muhd Izzat Farid Bin Razalie (BM)

1 - Leow Wei Sheng (GW)
1 - Muhd Noorhadi Bin Mohd Suhaili (AMK)
1 - Muhd Sir Haiyun Bin Sawi (AMK)
1 - Muhd Shakeel s/o Iftikharezaman (BM)
1 - Muhd Izzat Farid Bin Razalie (BM)
1 - Abidin B Abdullah (BM)
1 - Muhd Fakhruddin Bin Malwah (MacP)
1 - Mohammed Faazil (MacP)
1 - Muhd Asshiddin B Wahid (MP)
1 - Muhd Remy Bin Rashid (SB)
1 - Mohd Serajudeen (GW)
1 - Muhd Syafiq Bin Ramlee (TJ)
1 - Muhd Firhann Chhetri (TJ)
1 - Muhd Faiz Bin Sulaiman (TJ)
1 - Syed Ahmad Naqib Al-Attas B Syed Alwi (BK)

Matchday 3 - Results

FICO Sports Hub

Pitch A

Bedok 2-3 Geylang West
Man of the Match :- Muhd Ikhsan Bin Mohd Nizah (GW)

Ang Mo Kio 0-5 Bukit Merah
Man of the Match :- Muhd Aidil B Shahrin (BM)

Sembawang 0-3 Geylang West
Man of the Match :- Leow Wei Sheng (GW)

Ang Mo Kio 1-2 MacPherson
Man of the Match :- Radin Zainuddin Bin Radin Badruddin (AMK)

Bedok 1-4 Sembawang
Man of the Match :- Sazali Bin Mohd Ali (SB)

Ang Mo Kio 8-1 Taman Jurong
Man of the Match :- Norrisham Bin Rizam (AMK)

Sembawang 0-5 Bukit Merah
Man of the Match :- Mb Azree Aszeman (BM)

Ang Mo Kio 2-4 Geylang West
Man of the Match :- Karthigesan s/o Vijaykumar (GW)

Pitch B

Marine Parade 3-0 Taman Jurong
Man of the Match :- Aidil Iskandar Bin Salman (MP)

Bedok 0-4 Marine Parade
Man of the Match :- Abdul Khaliq Bin Idris (MP)

MacPherson 1-3 Bukit Merah
Man of the Match :- Muhd Harry Bin Bin Abdul Rahman (MacP)

Marine Parade 3-1 Geylang West
Man of the Match :- Karthigesan s/o Vijaykumar (GW)

Bukit Merah 6-0 Taman Jurong
Man of the Match :- Muhd Hazly Bin Shamad (BM)

Bedok 3-1 MacPherson
Man of the Match :- Muhd Khairulnizam B Kamis (BK)

Marine Parade 1-0 Sembawang
Man of the Match :- Muhd Syahir Bin Mohd S (SB)

MacPherson 1-2 Taman Jurong
Man of the Match :- Muhd Firhann Chhetri (TJ)

Season Heats Up

Here's a few more pics to relish before we kick-off the most important weekend. Matchday 3 may be title-winning day for Bukit Merah if they stay undefeated. Does Marine Marade have what it takes to spring a surprise push to the championship all the way to the final day?

Or would we finally see Geylang West and Sembawang battle consistency and mount a serious challenge to the trophy?

The rest of the clubs will be looking to collect as many points as they can to snatch 4th place, and count on it as a successful campaign to finish in the top half of the table. Taman Jurong needs to play for pride and get that first win.

Matchday 3 will take place at the FICO Sports Hub in Jurong West tommorrow at 3pm.

Goals await you!

Hey! Aim and shoot at the goal, not my head!

too ambitious, even Adebayor won't attempt a shot from his own half

Strikers need to tackle and create their own scoring opportunities too

interception! i'm gona break your goal-posts with a rocking shot

Shooting Stars...

The glamourous job of bagging goals for your team may be seem glittering and limelight-catching, but the pressure of keeping up the goalscoring rate may also put them to blame, more often than not.

The strikers' task look easy with just the need to put the ball into the back of the net. When you are facing some of the best defenders in the League, let's see how easy this task is.

typical fox in the box striker, needs the team to work for him

prepares to line up a long try

get outta way...i'm taking a shot lah

If you can repeat Maradona's one man show against the entire defence

These long range efforts no longer works

Defence of the Ancient?


Defensive players are typically at the front of the firing line, whenever their goal is breached. They take the most stick from critics about their defence and are also expected to run the flanks to create opportunities for the strikers, sometimes even has to score a cracker or two.

A tribute to the men at the back.

Packing your defensive line like sardines do help

Ball watchers. All of them. Like bird watching in a park

At times you really have to put your heart and soul, even your whole body into it

and get entangled together. We don't wana join in, it's not fun

legs, hands, heads, whatever it takes to stop him.

Football Frenzy

Highlights of the action at The Cage

On route to another hat-trick

finding it hard to break the deadlock

is this going to be a Beckham-styled curler?

don't pass to the wrong black! we're gold not white!

rebuilding might take a few setbacks

Changing of a dynasty
- report by our special correspondent

This is football. Manchester United FC is the English powerhouse, but not Leeds Utd nor Newcastle Utd. Great teams build their success on solid foundations. They are always able to cope with transition periods. Afterall, Cantona, Sir Bobby Charlton and George Best cannot play forever. And they always seem to go one further after losing their best players.

Ever since the T-Net Club Premier League started in 2007, it has almost been a 2-horse race between Bukit Merah and MacPherson. The other teams are seen as the bridesmaids, never the bride. Back-to-back championship triumphs by MacPherson only adds more heartache for the boys from Bukit Merah. It is painful to recall the times when the title seemed so near, and yet so far.

However, as the League enters it's 3rd year in competition, those who have been following (it) regularly, looking at the results and standing will be as shocking as seeing Michael Jackson walking along Orchard Road. A mere 6 miserable points, pathetic 10 goals to show and an incredible 25 goals conceded from the 2-time defending champions? (more than the total of 2 previous seasons put together, in 28 games) One began to suspect if their players were hit by the notorious swine flu and were quarantinedin Aloha resort, thus sending out a bunch of 10year-olds to make up the numbers.

Fortunately, the Influenza H1N1 did not hit the T-Net Clubs. The unfortunate part is that MacPherson did not field a team of primary school children. Now, we are looking at a test for a team who, either is still basking in past glories, or a team that will always be considered great. Star players such as Muhd Fairuz (Season 1 Golden Boot winner) and Abdul Razip (Season 2 Player of the Season) are no longer eligible to play due to coming of age. Their trusty younger teammates suddenly found life much harder without their seniors. Just ask Mathan Kumar. With 13 goals tallied in 2008, he failed to register his name in the score sheet in the first 4 matches this year. Succession didn't come as fast as the swine flu did.

Good news for the boys from MacPherson, they did manage to claim all 3 points against Taman Jurong and Bedok last weekend, at Matchday 2. This season could be a testing period for character building though. It has never been club culture to engage teams from the public to compete with others. Does this ring a bell? Sounds like Arsene Wenger (Arsenal FC manager).

Can the boys from the Circuit Road neighbourhood emerge from the shadows of their illustrious seniors and build an empire of their own? Only time will tell. But for this season, a mid-table finish shall be the defending champion's top priority.

Goalscoring Prowess

What a spectacle at The Cage yesterday as we enjoyed a flurry of goals from all the teams, most notably Marine Parade and Geylang West, which accounted for 26 of the total 65 goals scored on Matchday 2.

Did you miss the 3 hat-tricks by Muhd Hazly of Bukit Merah? The goalmouth dangerman has now amassed a scary 14 goals, making him the runaway top scorer at the moment.

The regular contributors are now hot on the heels behind Muhd Hazly, with Khairulnizam (BK), Karthigesan (GW) and Mathan Kumar (MacP) finally wearing their scoring boots.

Two players have quietly crept up the chart and are helping their teams be where they are now. It is no wonder Ahmad Khidhir (MP) and Muhd Sharul (BM) are new important assets to the 2 teams sitting comfortably at the top of the table now.

Let's now shift our attention to Geylang West. It certainly hasn't gone unnoticed that almost the whole squad can score goals. Just look at the chart and you find every player contributing to the goal cause. So...you ask. How to stop conceding goals to Geylang West then? The answer is to park your team bus in between your 2 goal-posts. Forget man-marking. It just will not work. By the way, just scroll down the list and you'll find last season's goal machine, Mohd Serajudeen. He is back!!! Don't say i didn't warn you guys!

Ang Mo Kio, meanwhile, is depending heavily on Radin Zainuddin and Muhd Zaki to convert more of the limited chances they have now, to try and improve on their best placed finish.

The plight of Taman Jurong is getting more anxious by every Matchday as they have only Mohd Danial to thank for at the moment. That is the main reason why the team is rooted at the bottom of the table. If you don't score goals, you don't win matches. Simple as that.

If Sembawang are to avoid the disappointment of last-day jitters of the past 2 seasons, they may have to cough up more goals and secure more victories and hold on to their position in the table. It's not looking too good at Matchday 2. They have relinguished the runner-up spot and now start as underdogs next week.

As we run through the list, it's easy to spot at least 10 names who are going to light up this season's Premier League. We'll be on alert to see the storm that they will be stirring up soon...

Matchday 3 will come to you live at the Fico Sports Hub in Jurong West this coming Saturday at 3pm. You won't miss us!

Matchday 2 - Standing & Results

Matchday 2 - Results

The Cage Indoor Football Stadia

Pitch 5

MacPherson 4-1 Taman Jurong
Man of the Match- Muhd Faazil (MacP)

Bukit Merah 3-1 Ang Mo Kio
Man of the Match- Mohd Shalan Bin Mohd Nor (BM)

MacPherson 2-0 Bedok
Man of the Match- Muhd Fakhruddin Bin Malwar (MacP)

Bukit Merah 0-2 Sembawang
Man of the Match- Muhd Syahur Bin Mohd S (SB)

Geylang West 4-1 MacPherson
Man of the Match- Suresh Kumar (GW)

Ang Mo Kio 3-3 Sembawang
Man of the Match- Radin Zainuddin Bin Radin Badruddin (AMK)

Ang Mo Kio 2-1 Bedok
Man of the Match- Noorisham B Rizam (AMK)

Geylang West 2-1 Sembawang
Man of the Match- Leow Wei Sheng (GW)

Pitch 6

Bedok 3-1 Geylang West
Man of the Match- Sabir Da Silva (GW)

Marine Parade 4-2 Sembawang
Man of the Match- Muhd Luqman Bin Riffin (MP)

Geylang West 6-0 Taman Jurong
Man of the Match- Shafiee Bin Abdul Wahab (GW)

Ang Mo Kio 0-4 Marine Parade
Man of the Match- Abdul Khaliq Bin Idris (MP)

Bedok 3-0 Taman Jurong
Man of the Match- Muhd Khairulnizam B Kamis (BK)

Bukit Merah 1-1 Marine Parade
Man of the Match- Abdul Khidhir Bin Khairul Anuar (MP)

Taman Jurong 0-6 Bukit Merah
Man of the Match- Mohd Shalan Bin Mohd Nor (BM)

Marine Parade 4-0 MacPherson
Man of the Match- Muhd Luqman Bin Riffin (MP)

Highlights of Matchday 1

At the end of the opening day's matches, we were left wondering what some of the stars of the previous seasons were polishing their boots. In the unpredictable footballing world, the unthinkable would be to experience the second season syndrome, where teams just fade into the wilderness. (see Reading FC)

An exodus in the Marine Parade team has actually done more good, as the reshuffling and rebuilding exercise propped them up to 3rd place with 2 wins on Matchday 1 alone.

With award winning players like Karthigesan back to strengthen Geylang West's striking department, he has failed to shake off his injuries which left him out of the squad in Season 2, thus unable to produce the form that brought him the Player of the Season.

Last season's top marksman, Khairulnizam is still wondering where he left his scoring boots, as he struggled to make an impact on Matchday 1. Bedok must be eagerly waiting for their talisman to start banging in the goals to help their push for honours.

In a surprise package that comes in 2 parts, last season's wonderkid who blasted his way into the footballing scene in the League, Mathan Kumar, who turned everybody's head with an amazing 13 goals has yet to smell the goalmouth, with none to show after 4 matches. Part reason why MacPherson is rooted at the bottom at the moment. Everyone's anxiously anticipating him to break his duck soon, and the goals will flow...

On a positive note, another player has not gone unnoticed. We're talking about Muhd Hazly from Bukit Merah. The pint-sized playmaker puts most strikers to shame as he slammed home 7 goals in 4 games to finish top of the goalscoring charts. He converts chances presented by his hardworking teammates and even creates his own openings, that is 1 player we will be looking out for from now on...

Geylang West has its team, building on foundations that go back to the first season, will be hoping the backbone of the squad, with silent contributors like Da Silva, Leow Wei Sheng and Shafiee would make them serious title contenders this term.

Bedok has always been blessed with safe pairs of hands, with the ineligibility of overage custodian, Abdul Munaf, the team have found another promising player who might just shut out the goal supply of the other teams. Nawi NurHakim is certainly one gem waiting to be polished. Watch out for him!

Some of the other players that came to out attention include Muhd Zaki from Ang Mo Kio, Muhd Faiz from Taman Jurong, Muhd Farhan from Sembawang, Shafiyuddin and Aidil Iskandar, both of whom plays for Marine Parade. Let's see what's in store from them in Matchday 2 as we continue to lookout for more raw talent.

Youth United!

Football Frenzy

After 4 rounds of competition in Matchday 1, we have witnessed several early surprises in the Premier League. Back-to-back defending champions of the past 2 years, MacPherson, got off to a disastrous start as they slumped to 4 straight defeats, ending the opening day holding the wooden spoon.

In a show of prowess after final day disappointments in the last 2 seasons, Bukit Merah is set to show the rest of the teams they won't be early season wonders and will not be slipping up that easily this year. They romped home 4 crushing defeats to their opponents, breaching their goalmouths 16 times in the process. Sembawang makes up the other promising title contenders as they also notched up 3 wins and a draw to finish Matchday 1 hot on the heels of leaders Bukit Merah, just 2 points behind.

Marine Parade, on the other hand, have assembled a reasonably strong squad this season as they strive to move away from the basement cellar of previous editions. They are certainly finding goals easy to come by and is the main reason why they are sitting comfortable in an unusually and unfamiliar 3rd place, just ahead of regular challengers, Geylang West on goal difference. Pin your hopes on the latter if you're looking at a possible new champion.

The trio of Bedok, Ang Mo Kio and Taman Jurong, too have made significant changes and additions to their squads and are mounting a strong challenge to fend off their stronger opponents, determined to end the season at the top half of the table. Ang Mo Kio, yet to register their first win, is fast gaining reputation as a draw specialist, which would not help them in the points tally. While Bedok is gaining momentum slowly with a decent 4 points from 4 games, they will have to step up their game on Matchday 2 if they want to stand any chance of being title contenders. Meanwhile, Taman Jurong, who have displayed none of the flamboyant style of play from the past 2 years, are finding it hard to find the back of the net and is also badly let down by its ultra leaky defence.

For more action, head on down to The Cage Indoor Football Stadium this Saturday, 11 July 2009 for more thrills and spills.

See you on Matchday 2!

The Squad of 2009

Here's introducing the registered players for this season's league representing the 8 clubs. They are featured here in their official squad photograph in their respective team's colours. As the weeks passed, we'll all be more familiar with these budding footballers.

T-Net Club @ Ang Mo Kio

2 Mohd Faiz Bin Jafridin
3 Muhd Solihin B Rizam
4 Abdul Rahman B Abd Aziz
5 Muhd Hilmi Bin Azman
6 Radin Zainuddin Bin Radin Badruddin
7 Amin Kurniawan Bin Kasim
8 Muhd Hafiz Bin Roslan
9 Muhd Zaki Bin Azman
10 Mohd Aris Bin Ariffin
11 Muhd Shafiq B Mohd Amin
12 Muhd Sir Haiyun Bin Sawi
13 Norrisham B Rizam
14 Mohd Shah Bin Jafridin
15 Muhd Noorhadi Bin Mohd Suhaili
16 Muhd Kamarul Bin Ismail


T-Net Club @ Bedok




2 Mohd Afiq B Abdul Rahman
3 Syed Ahmad Naqib Al-Attas B Syed Alwi
4 Muhd Adam Bin Hamdan
6 Muhd Amirul Adli Bin Ismail
7 Muhd Syafiq Bin Tuah
8 Danni Iskandar Bin Ahmad
9 Muhd Khairulnizam B Kamis
10 Muhd Irwan Bin Roslan
11 Muhd Fazli Bin Jamal
14 Muhd Sharul Bin Omar
15 Muhd Shariyan Bin Latiff
16 Nawi NurHakim Bin Robani


T-Net Club @ Bukit Merah




3 Muhd Aidil B Shahrin
4 Muhd Izzat Farid Bin Razalie
6 Muhd Hazly Bin Shamad
8 Noralim Bin Mohd Noor
10 Muhd Shakeel s/o Iftikharezaman
11 Noraliff Bin Mohd Noor
12 Mohd Shalan Bin Mohd Nor
14 Mb Azree Aszeman
16 Abidin B Abdullah


T-Net Club Geylang West





2 Muhd Firdaus Bin Ramli
3 Muhd Ikhsan Bin Mohd Nizah
4 Ser Nur Mohd
5 Karthigesan s/o Vijaykumar
7 Sabir Da Silva
8 Leow Wei Sheng
12 Shafiee Bin Abdul Wahab
14 Suresh Kumar
16 Vicneswaran Visvalingam


T-Net Club @ MacPherson

3 Muhd Shahiran Bin Pakirdin
4 Muhd Fakhruddin Bin Malwah
5 Muhd Harry Bin Abdul Rahman
6 Mathan Kumar
7 Mohamed Faazil
8 Muhd Asyraf Bin Chumino
9 Md Zulqarudin Bin Abdullah
10 Subramaniam s/o Thanabalan
16 Abdul Majeed s/o Ismail


T-Net Club @ Marine Parade

3 Muhd Aiman Bin Idris
5 Huzaifah Abdul Aziz
7 Muhd Asshiddin Wahid
8 Shafiyuddin Bin Mansor
9 Muhd Luqman Bin Riffin
11 Ahmad Khidhir Bin Khairul Anuar
14 Muhd Zulhilmi Bin Harris
18 Muhd Yousuf Akmal B Mahmood Shah
19 Abdul Khaliq Bin Idris
23 Aidil Iskandar Bin Salman


T-Net Club @ Sembawang

2 Fariez Haziq Bin Abu Hanifa
3 Irfan Azaman
4 Farid Moktar
5 Muhd Zharif Bin Abdul Aziz
6 Muhd Fadhil Bin Johar
7 Muhd Remy Bin Rashid
8 Muhd Farhan Bin Jailani
9 Muhd Firdhaus Bin Jailani
10 Sazali Bin Mohd Ali
11 Muhd Shahrihan Bin Farhan
12 Muhd Syahir Bin Mohd S
16 Muhd Akhbarruden Bin Zolhalmi


T-Net Club @ Taman Jurong








3 Muhd Azmeb Shah Bin Abdul A
5 Muhd Fahmi Bin Ramleey
7 Muhd Syafiq Bin Ramlee
8 Mohd Danial B Zainalabidin
9 Muhd Firhann Chhetri
10 Muhd Faiz Bin Sulaiman
13 Muhd Hafiz B Abdul Razak