Two footballers fined

[MarrickG]

With this level of discipline, you expect to be in the World Cup?!!! In your dreams Sinkapore!

DEFENDER Baihakki Khaizan and right-winger Ridhuan Muhamad have each been fined $750 for keeping the national football team waiting on the bus that was to take them for their crucial Asian Cup qualifier against Jordan last month.

In a statement released by the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) yesterday evening, the two players were found guilty by the disciplinary committee (DC) of breaching Clause 8(i) of the FAS Code of Conduct & Professional Ethics for National Players.

According to the charge, Baihakki and Ridhuan failed to be punctual for the departure of the team from the hotel at 3.45pm on March 3 for the match against Jordan in Amman by turning up to board the bus seven minutes late.

Singapore lost the game 1-2 when they needed a draw to qualify for next year's Finals in Qatar. It would have been the Republic's first direct qualification ever, apart from hosting the tournament in 1984.

It took the DC over an hour to reach the verdict at the FAS' office at the Jalan Besar Stadium.

The two errant players, who started the match against Jordan, were not present but had earlier submitted a written mitigation. The Straits Times understands that Baihakki and Ridhuan had pleaded guilty and did not wish to contest the charges.

 

[evisionary]

7 Minutes cost $750. One hundred dollars for each minute and fifty dollars for admin fees.

Who cares about local football?

 

[Queen Seok Duk]

Both are m&ds. Put them in a circular room.

 

[halsey02]

Both are m&ds. Put them in a circular room.

what is with the circular room?

 

[Queen Seok Duk]

what is with the circular room?

When the team was waiting for the 2 m&ds in the team bus, where were the 2 m&ds ? Relac relac at a corner lah, what else ? You put them in a circular room, they sure cannot relac one. Because circular room NO corner mah.