reporter ask: "there have been rumours that fandi might be returning as the assistant national coach. Are you open to working with anyone or is the situation ok right now?
raddy reply: "if you go to a sony shop and you ask which mobile phone he will recommend, i don't think he will recommend samsung or motorola"
reporter: can you elaborate?
raddy: Go think about it...
reporter: what is lions coach raddy talking about?
LOL....dis reporter pretend to act blur.... okay lah..let me intepret for you lah....
wat raddy trying to say is:
If you go to a halal restaurant, of cos the waiter will not recommend u any pork dishes lah....right?
so noordin of cos will recommend fandi lah.. he will not recommend another serb right...
..like dat also reporter also donch understand..or try to act blur only...
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The whole interview was really weird. The example cited took the cake. He reminds me of Rafa Benitez who used to answer ANY question with something like "I don't know; I just focus on my job." I have never met the man so I don't know whether is this the way he explains his tactics and strategies to the the team.
We will never know the truth - Raddy or FAS or the reporters (by selective use of statements) between them have managed to muddy the waters.
The first para in ST states: RUBBISHING a newspaper report that he had offered to quit after last month's Cup failure, it went on to say that he "set the record straight" by saying that he was not going anywhere.
In NewPaper, Winston Lee FAS Secretary was quoted as saying "...I met with him the day after we came back from Hanoi....he accepted responsbility...left his future for FAS to decide."
Nordin explained his U-turn about the sacking of the entire team by attributing it to "lost in translation" because only Berita Harian was told initially. If the interview was conducted in English, then it is really weird.
This is actually a moot point. FAS signed a new 2-year (usual length?) JUST BEFORE the Suzuki Cup, which means that if they fire him, he will get paid in full for the rest of the contract. Shades of what the England coach Fabio did just before the World Cup, by intentionally being seen having dinner with some Italian team club chairman. The English FA fell for the trick hook, line and sinker.
Every mother and his dog say all the politically correct things - great job, he is the man blah blah ad nauseum. The simple truth is that under his reign, we have gone down T W E N T Y B L O O D Y P L A C E S in FIFA rankings - and he's the man?
And they want to imply that is not exactly well paid for the figures of $350,000 per YEAR or the other quoted figure of $40,000 per MONTH. This is tax payers' money and no one is talking? Even kachang putih listed companies need to indicate salary bands in the salary scales.
If you have a couple of million to spend on marketing, would you put even a small percentage to sponsor a team, including having your face on the jersies if you want to. The news reports in the past few weeks are enough to make one puke - the elegant silence of the mis-judged coach, the FAS who made the claim that HE decided to sack the national team (hah - how does one sack a national team? ONE man decide football matters in Singapore?) the ongoing saga of the misbehaving footballers - some nameed and some not named but never mind, it is not "policy" to shame them in public; the club managers who rant and rave about not enough funding, don't know how much they are getting - and the season starts in a few weeks. Oh, we are also waiting for the 12th team to be announced. Not to mention the story about the school boy who had to give up soccer because the allowance was not even for him to have a decent mean.
Oh man, and this was the year we were to have made an appearance in the WORLD CUP Finals - we came back from the Asian Games before the opening
ceremony.
Well I guess we WILL be in the World Cup Finals sooner than we think - if the proposal to host the 2034 WC as part of the regional effort. Till then, I will stick to watching old men and ladies lawn bowling at Kallang.
