Hello, football is not a wrestling match
YoursayPublished: Feb 6, 2014 12:34 AM | Updated: Feb 6, 2014 1:43 AM
YOURSAY ‘The Johor fans must take responsibility for their few troublemakers.’
Johor FA chief named in police report on brawl
Sa Tombs: Whenever Johor is involved in sports, they are poor and sore losers. Poor because bets are lost and sore because they ventilate anger and violence on those not to their liking.
With this kind of attitude coming from higher-ups, Johor can have fat hopes that there will be investments in the state.
HRH (His Royal Highness) who has the interest of the people at heart will surely be ashamed that guests who are invited to participate in sports were treated shabbily by his own citizenry. God help us all.
Ferdtan: When the chiefs of Johor Football Association acted arrogantly without regard to the laws, what do you expect from the lower officers and its supporters? They break laws with impunity knowing that they would be protected from prosecution.
Teams should be banned from playing in Johor. Instead, they should play on neutral ground. If not, then Johor should play in empty stadium in home games; this is the only way to stop hooligans.
The message must be clear. No ifs or buts. Follow the Fifa or European method of punishment - the Johor fans must take responsibility for their few troublemakers.
Onyourtoes: This is the genesis of all problems we face today - double standards, and there are people who are beyond police investigation and prosecution irrespective of the wrongs committed.
This is also the problem where some who headed the sport bodies are beyond organisational discipline and accountability. How third world do we want to be?
Siang Malam: I remember a decade or two back, there was the assault of a hockey coach and much later another assault of a hockey goalkeeper, and much later some tourists at Pulau Rawa and later some Negeri Sembilan royalty...
I wonder when these will all stop and who will stop these?
Debater: What do you expect from a bunch of spoilt kids grown up without knowing how the real world is and have nothing better to do. They should be trained to perform charity work to pay back to society who supports them.
Anonymous #06001393: Where is the sportsmanship? This is not a wrestling match with fights outside the ring. FAM (Football Association Malaysia) and police need to take stern actions against the culprits.
Siang Malam: Most Malaysians have an opinion on the royalty but none want to express their opinion publicly - not yet - because of the Sedition Act. So, things will come to a boil and then we see the opinion comes out full force.
Angry Citizen: It’s obvious that the royalty has to be relieved of its involvement in sports associations.
One hockey coach was so badly traumatised by the brutal treatment at the hands of the Johor royalty many years ago that he eventually lost his sanity and committed suicide and his demise was not even reported by the mainstream media.
Let’s see if the police and our sports minister has the balls to take action against the culprits, whether there are rakyat like you and me or those despots who stride the earth like it belongs to them and them only.
Single Malt: They are protectors of Islam in this country. They are beyond prosecution. Umno Baru will see to it. I may even be charged for sedition.
Oriole: Bullies in the schoolyard are seriously disturbed kids. When it progresses to adulthood, it becomes a criminal offence and the person needs to seek help.
Such persons are not capable of leading anything or anyone because violence does not constitute leadership, it denotes a person consumed with fear and anxiety.
Melayu Tulen: This is Malaysia football biggest problem. How to improve? No wonder South Korea is now always in World Cup. Malaysia go backward 20 years.
Raja Chulan: Now that Dr Mahathir Mohamad is no more in power, we see all the worms coming out of the woodwork.
Perhaps, we need a new Dr M (who?) to handle this matter once again. Only this time, once and for all.
KSC: The final result from the investigation? The victims will "forgive" the assailants.
T-Team twisted the facts, says JDT coach Ferrando
Mushiro: IF T Team twisted the facts then why didn't Johor Darul Takzim (JDT) make a police report first as the JDT coach said he was assaulted by T Team's coach.
Rakyat1M: Why was the cameraman asked to stop recording and they threatened to break his camera if he doesn’t stop.
MfM: If JDT thinks us Terengganu people are going to take this sitting down, they are sorely mistaken. We saw the video, we know what happened. We have our sultan as well.
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Johor FA chief named in police report on brawl
Sa Tombs: Whenever Johor is involved in sports, they are poor and sore losers. Poor because bets are lost and sore because they ventilate anger and violence on those not to their liking.With this kind of attitude coming from higher-ups, Johor can have fat hopes that there will be investments in the state.
HRH (His Royal Highness) who has the interest of the people at heart will surely be ashamed that guests who are invited to participate in sports were treated shabbily by his own citizenry. God help us all.
Ferdtan: When the chiefs of Johor Football Association acted arrogantly without regard to the laws, what do you expect from the lower officers and its supporters? They break laws with impunity knowing that they would be protected from prosecution.
Teams should be banned from playing in Johor. Instead, they should play on neutral ground. If not, then Johor should play in empty stadium in home games; this is the only way to stop hooligans.
The message must be clear. No ifs or buts. Follow the Fifa or European method of punishment - the Johor fans must take responsibility for their few troublemakers.
Onyourtoes: This is the genesis of all problems we face today - double standards, and there are people who are beyond police investigation and prosecution irrespective of the wrongs committed.
This is also the problem where some who headed the sport bodies are beyond organisational discipline and accountability. How third world do we want to be?
Siang Malam: I remember a decade or two back, there was the assault of a hockey coach and much later another assault of a hockey goalkeeper, and much later some tourists at Pulau Rawa and later some Negeri Sembilan royalty...
I wonder when these will all stop and who will stop these?
Debater: What do you expect from a bunch of spoilt kids grown up without knowing how the real world is and have nothing better to do. They should be trained to perform charity work to pay back to society who supports them.
Anonymous #06001393: Where is the sportsmanship? This is not a wrestling match with fights outside the ring. FAM (Football Association Malaysia) and police need to take stern actions against the culprits.
Siang Malam: Most Malaysians have an opinion on the royalty but none want to express their opinion publicly - not yet - because of the Sedition Act. So, things will come to a boil and then we see the opinion comes out full force.
Angry Citizen: It’s obvious that the royalty has to be relieved of its involvement in sports associations.
One hockey coach was so badly traumatised by the brutal treatment at the hands of the Johor royalty many years ago that he eventually lost his sanity and committed suicide and his demise was not even reported by the mainstream media.
Let’s see if the police and our sports minister has the balls to take action against the culprits, whether there are rakyat like you and me or those despots who stride the earth like it belongs to them and them only.
Single Malt: They are protectors of Islam in this country. They are beyond prosecution. Umno Baru will see to it. I may even be charged for sedition.
Oriole: Bullies in the schoolyard are seriously disturbed kids. When it progresses to adulthood, it becomes a criminal offence and the person needs to seek help.
Such persons are not capable of leading anything or anyone because violence does not constitute leadership, it denotes a person consumed with fear and anxiety.
Melayu Tulen: This is Malaysia football biggest problem. How to improve? No wonder South Korea is now always in World Cup. Malaysia go backward 20 years.
Raja Chulan: Now that Dr Mahathir Mohamad is no more in power, we see all the worms coming out of the woodwork.
Perhaps, we need a new Dr M (who?) to handle this matter once again. Only this time, once and for all.
KSC: The final result from the investigation? The victims will "forgive" the assailants.
T-Team twisted the facts, says JDT coach Ferrando
Mushiro: IF T Team twisted the facts then why didn't Johor Darul Takzim (JDT) make a police report first as the JDT coach said he was assaulted by T Team's coach.
Rakyat1M: Why was the cameraman asked to stop recording and they threatened to break his camera if he doesn’t stop.
MfM: If JDT thinks us Terengganu people are going to take this sitting down, they are sorely mistaken. We saw the video, we know what happened. We have our sultan as well.
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