OMG! The Tiger Cup Finals at the National Stadium last night was absolutely awesome, cool, spontaneous!! The mood was undesripable! Every Die-Hard football fan like me came in red to show our support for the Lions!!
Collected the official die-hard fans t-shirt at the booth for Singapore supporters only. Cut the bloody long queue. muahaha. the people around me was so nice! They let me jump the queue man. The shirt's not bad at all. Woah..the crowd was like 55,000!! Fortunately for us, we got the 6th row seat, that was like so near the pitch and goal-post!! OMG!!! At like 6.15pm, the Lions came out to train. Everyone was showing their support. I could hear familiar drum-beats and the good ol' cheer during the Malaysian Cup days of "Ole..Ole...Ole...Ole..!!! Ole.....Ole!!!!".
I was one of them who was shouting,screaming and cheering myself hoarse! OMG!!! Then I spotted Baihakki. He was wearing the red die-hard t-shirt during their training . OMG!! My heart was like beating 120 beats per minute. then he ran-followed by a 100m dash toward every distance. They did stretches too, like push-ups and leg stretching. After that, they paired up. Baihakki paired up with Danielle Bennett. Then when Danielle threw the ball..Baihakki practised using his head to hit the ball, kicking the ball oh and the hottest one was when he used his legs to kick the ball in a back-thrust style! I was screaming away!
Finally at about 7.30pm the match started. they sang the National Anthem before the game. Baihakki was easy to spot as he was the tallest among his other team-mates! When the game started everyone cheered with their loudest possible voice. Haha..the funniest thing was that the entire stadium cursed at the Indonesians..there was a beat followed by a shout by the audience: Buto [its the Malay f*** word] though I've never heard it before I just played along. Within the 1st half of the game, Singapore lead by 2-0. Everyone knew it will be victory for one and all Lion supporters.
First goal was scored by Indra Sahdan while the other was scored by Agu Casmir. Singapore did not score any goals during the second half of the match but Indo scored a pathetic one, bringing the total second leg score to 2-1.The total aggregate of the finals is 5-2!!! Singapore won!!! Victory as we did the Kallang wave..clapped...shouted...screamed...cheered..anything you could think of.
Like 10 mins before the game ended, Lionel Lewis, Goh Tat Chuan and Baihakki Khaizan smelled victory as there was just no way the indos could catch up with singapore. They asked us to cheer.
Singapore have just crossed a milestone and the Lions have created history once again!! Lionel Lewis and Baihakki hugged each other straight after the match. OMG! So nice! The Lions carried their coach and I could see the coach was in the highest of spirits and proud of his boys!! Then I saw Baihakki taking of his jersey to exchange with the Indo player. hotttttttt!! Then the coach passed him a clean jersey. Once again he took of his shirt in front of like the whole stadium. I was totally freaking out!
After they received the Tiger Cup trophy and the cash prize of US$100,000, the entire team ran around the stadium holding up the trophy with pride!!! OMG! The Lions have done Singapore proud!!! Continue to work hard...can't wait for the SEA games man. Woo-hoo!!