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| For an S-League to play a friendly in a school is just, SAD! |
It will do wonders!
The friendly matches in the past month or so made me realise one sad thing about Singapore football. The clubs do not own the stadiums that they call "home".
Yes, I do understand how costly it is to own a piece of land in this country but why not at least give the clubs partial ownership of their stadiums?
Some of the friendly matches were held in schools like MJC, ITE Simei and Temasek Polytechnic. It is the equivalent of having Manchester United play in one of the secondary schools in the Manchester district!
If clubs and their chairman own their own stadium, there would be that much incentive to make their stadiums a "homely" place for their fans to be proud of. Consistent renovation without complicated approvals can be done, friendly matches can be held at their own stadiums, clubs can run their Centre of Excellences at their own ground and even the highly demanded concept stores can be set up! Furthermore, if clubs have ownership of their stadiums, naming rights can be sold to corporations and this can pump in the cash and investment that is sorely needed and it benefits everyone!
So what if the public wants to also use these ground? It can be made a regulation that the tracks must be made open to public as well on non-match days!
Currently, these stadiums are owned by the SSC and clubs have very little say and even have to pay rent to use them during off season.
Is it really a lose-lose situation if there is a Tampines-Creative stadium or Choa Chu Kang -SIA Arena?
What are your thoughts?
Or in my case, Coca Cola Stadium. LOL
ReplyDeleteDaniel
the hurdle would be the landlord - the SSC.
ReplyDeleteAs not that long ago, Balestier's vice-chairman mentioned something like SSC are to charge the club "commercial rate" should there any kind of revenue netting activity to boast the coffers of the club.
And in fact, few years back there was actually a proposal to have this "naming right" thing at one of the HDB stadium, but nothing progressed after the news was made known
well,ssc wants to ve the right to own the stdium coz they are the governing body for sports in singapore and sports stadium are for community use in sibgapore.it is understood that during pre season clubs are not allowed to use the turf at their own stadiums coz ssc wants to preserve the field for the new season and knowing singapore`s unpredictable wearther they do not want the grass pitches to be damaged,as for games being played at 5pm which forces most of us fans during weekdays to miss the friendlies is the cost of paying for floodlights at night which is quite expensive also.lastly the frienlies played in the schools as u noticed are played on artifical turf which is weather proof and less damage also to the ptich.
ReplyDeleteBtw? How did u get to the song "go lions"? Very catchy. Maybe we could sing the song during nation team matches.
ReplyDeletehi anonymous:
ReplyDeleteIt is from a cd in the 1994 Malaysia cup team. :D
oh thanks... btw, in 94 i wasn't even born. So thanks for informing.
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