I read with embarrassment the news that relate to the football situation in Brunei.

Give me a break, people. There’s no need to create a power struggle if there isn’t any. This is not politics, this is called a playground argument of who should be the head of the see-saw equipment. BAFA, the registrar of societies, ministry of culture youth and sports, the new football federations, who is who, makes me sick. I’ll give you my opinion, all of you are pure 100% premium grade idiots.

What is the hassle all about anyway? The more this fiasco moves along, the more i am convinced that we are a nation who really can’t run things. If this is what happens in football, then imagine how we run things in flood management, wealth management and road networks planning?

oh wait.. *palms face*

As far as i am concerned why was BAFA deregistered in the first place anyway. Aside from not sending minutes of their AGM and financial statement, what else is there? Who has time to read all of the society’s reports anyway in the home affairs ministries? with that much scrutiny involved, you’d think that we’d be safe from financial scams that plagues our nation anyway. If theres a group of guys who are enthusiastically in playing scrabble, why the hell would you want their annual report. Fuck me if id find out a scandalous operation going on with subversive elements running in a scrabble club.

This issue also exposes how whiney people can be as well. The BAFA association still insisting that FIFA recognises only them, etc. Please, don’t complicate things if theyre not complicated. and b) I think we should realise once in a while, that these are times when we should let go. Wait, who forgets to send in their AGM minutes anyway? Are you THAT BUSY, BAFA? This is a flashback of the Olympic fiasco we had for Beijing 2008. What the hell are you people doing anyway, no wonder we’re still ranked 192 in FIFA.

I think all of you should just start a brand new piece of paper. Registrar of societies, piss off. Ministry of culture, youth and Sports; please come to work full hours, at least. and plan for the bloody London 2012 olympics. BAFA, get over it, move on. Form a futsal club, get another job or something, whatever.

Does it matter a lot? Of course, i think football in Brunei matters. For anyone who was extremely lucky enough to witness Brunei winning the 1999 Malaysian cup, i haven’t seen such level of national pride in my life. I have never seen this nation pulled together in unity than the time we won the Malaysian cup. Football fields were packed because kids played wanting to be like their heroes, people actually looked forward to going to work because of their mood and our form of entertainment was way cheaper because we didn’t rely on debt crunching consumer goods to keep us excited.

At darkening times like these, the nation needs confidence that it can do things properly. Bringing victories through football is one really cheap option. Cause hell, we need heroes