The Singapore Gooners

First, the 10%. I've been on porridge diet for the last two days. HATE IT!!! Why did God put in wisdom teeth? What's their role? I've decided not to put in the pics of my extracted teeth. It's really too gross...

Today, I will relate how it is to be a Gooner in Singapore. Ardent Arsenal fan Nick shared with me...

... It's always refreshing to find a fellow Arsenal fan in Singapore and i was almost on the point of despair because you hardly find Arsenal fans in Singapore where everybody is either a Man Utd or Liverpool fan. Someone was telling me the other day that Arsenal fans in Singapore are like the Sith because they are hardly any of us compared to the multitudes of Liverpool and Man Utd supporters...

Nick took the words right out of my mouth. There are indeed more Singaporeans supporting Man U and Liverpool. Throw a stone into the blue oyster bar and you'll probably hit a red devil. Brother Blog is one those boggers buggers...

Let's use my workplace as another illustration. From the time that I've been working there, I am the only one of two Gooners flying the Arsenal flag. The other followed the Gunners by default cos of some ex-boyfriend. She has since left. So I'm the only Gooner left...

And the rest?

The big boss is a red devil. My immediate boss is a liverpudlian. (amazing how I'm still surviving) There are another 8 or 9 other red devils or liverpudlians, not counting those that have left. Oh, there's also have one ru$$ian-loving blue.

So to all those lone Gooners in your office cubicles, school classrooms, army camps, drinking holes, gambling dens or even in the gahmen houses, I feel your pain & at the same time, pride. Just remember: stay firm and don't let them bully you into an unthinkable defection.

Speaking of fair-weathered fans, I noticed that there are more and more Chel$ea supporters these days. I really despise those who just conveniently state their allegience to the latest winner and start to don their colours, trying to convince people that they are long-time supporters. We'll only know they are true fans if they still stick to the team when they are no longer on top - which will be soon... ;)

Remember when Blackburn won the league? I recall vividly the hordes of Singaporeans wearing their shirts. No disrespect, but where are they now?

Anyway Nick, I don't know about being a Sith, but we are certainly not a small bunch. If you were at the Elizabeth Hotel for the 2006 Champions League Finals, you would have known that the crowd that night was insanely massive.

For the rest of the other Singapore Gooners, come on out and make your voice heard here in our nice corner...