Naz,
This is only half true actually. I've been to a couple of matches where big teams come down to Malaysia to play. True enough 75% of the stadium wears anything but Malaysian jersey but when we're close to scoring, 99% of the stadium cheers for Malaysia. Its a fact. Look at how happy the Malaysians were when we came back from 2 goal deficit to equalise against Man Utd middle this year.

For me, im Arsenal thru and thru and when it comes to national teams, i don't support any team in particular except Malaysia. Well we play crap football to begin with but if we ever do play, i'm all for Malaysia.

To be honest, i dont really get too excited when big tournaments come up, i mean i don't feel the need to wake up at 3am to watch Euro or even World Cup group stages. But if its WC Final or Euro Final, of coz its worth getting up. BUT, if its Arsenal game live on TV on weekends, it must take something big for me to not watch it.

Yes, agree with you JonC. You know the funny thing is, we've changed like a dozen of national team coach, we've changed like hundreds of players since the glory days of 80's. We've changed a couple of team managers and even after the multiple team management and players change, our football still sucks. Funny thing is, the only 1 thing that has not changed is the FAM. The same guy or at least his son who's at the helm of FAM for the past 20 years or so. Don't they realise the problem is with FAM top guy and not the hundreds of people who's been part of the national football team be it coaches or players.

Im definitely not watching any local football till improvement is seen. People talk about how expensive it is to watch English football, be it flying to England or just the complaints about Astro increasing their subscription price. The way i see it, if they're playing good stuff, im enjoying the game and the thrills, i don't see a reason to complain. Even if it means saving up to fly to England to watch. Its the whole experience of watching a really good game, the atmosphere, the thrills when your team score or concede a goal. Is it worth putting in a couple of thousand of $, to me yes. My point here is, would i pay a whole lot of money less, say RM15 to watch a local game. Answer is, NO. Thing is, they're playing lousy football and you end up feeling like you wasted your time and the RM15 to watch bad football, there's no thrill and enjoyment, so its money wasted more than anything else.

To put it in another perspective, i'd rather pay RM50 to have a really really good meal than to pay RM5 for shite meal.