Harimau Malaya sound more vicious than Harimau Malaysia. But of course those in Sabah and Sarawak will feel unfair.

Biasalah, tiada match pasti sunyi.

Liga M match still all at 8.45 pm? Everytime only broadcast 2 matches (RTM and Arena). Should put different time a bit for few matches.
BTW, got 2 RTM channels right? Why can't use RTM2 for LIGA M broadcast?

yeah... after i read further... ASTRO will only pay RM30 per year for the tv rights... and then they will invest another 100mil to improve their live coverage facility specifically for the M-league..

i think we can hope for more live matches folks...

wonder who is the 'big' sponsor is... technically they can only start announcing it after 26th January after contract with TM expired...

Cheers and chants are all right when the team is winning. But it only take a freak accident in the bathroom to wreck Mahali's or Faizal Abu Bakar's career. No state will offer them a contract before their injuries healed. They have to recover on their own and fight again from the bottom. In the mean time, how do they, as the provider of the family, look into at their children's eye and say we have to think twice abount eating at KFC or buying toys untill daddy can find a job... who would cheer and chants for them then? will that be enough?

i wont be saying this if our players are all millionaires like in the BPL. But the truth is the financial state of our league is dire. There are not enough money from outside coming in. A lot has been said about how short the span of a sportsmen career is.. job security are very treacherous... so as a proffesional, they must work hard to be the best of the best so to ahieve financial stability and collect retirement pool as much as they can while they are at the top.

Of course not one of them ever come out to say they want any reward. I have no doubt they only did what they did in the spirit of love for their country. if there are no reward, they would have still do no less then what they did. But if they can bring the priceless joy to us, why not we do the same to them?

The most important reason, the main reason why i type this is, i want to break the stigma that football is a self-torturing-labour-of-love type of career. When we read football players can receive hundred of thousands of ringgit in yearly income if they are good, parent would start sending their young kids to academis for training.. not only parents will be proud to see their children get the adulation on the field, but they are also will feel safe to know that the financial side of their children are also backed. This stigma is the real killer of our football youth developement.

And we also have to start questioning the notion a sports player perfromance will suffer if they receive bumper reward. There a lot of reason why performance drop. Could be the training problem, personal problem, oppponents just get better and they cannot cope or simply because they overachived with their performance in the first place..there many casses of athletes become not good with or without bumper rewards... But stingie, fickle and butthurt people mainly choose to focus on the monetary reason because they sick of their mundane 9-5 jobs that barely worth to pay their debt and they get jealous when these SPM-pon-tak-lepas sportsmen receive more money then they do.

Datuk LCW and Nicol David has shown that monetary reward does not necessarily make the player's performance drop. If anything it will spur the athletes to get better as, with good enough income, they can leave their worldly problems at the gates of their training ground and just concetrate on training. Right now, some players even worried that their car will be repossesed at the parking lot when they are training...

finding a commentator with local footbal passion and knowledge complete with radio friendly voice and presentation is very tricky..

the Englishman are born with radio friendly voice and presentation, so they just need to pick an ex player who knows what there are talking about and they are good to go. Commentary are among the main reason why EPL broadcast are more delightful than other foreign league programme IMO..

most BM commentators has an annoying voice tone on air... like the old Radio Klasik model... what we need is Radio Era level of radio station revolution to the local football match commentatory...

Rizal Hashim for me has a smoothing radio friendly voice..

I'm so sorry that this is a rather short notice but for those who didn't get the invite to the Nike's meet and greet session with Harimau Malaya tomorrow, here is your second chance:

http://www.lowyat.net/v2/meet-and-greet-th...-weekend-2.html

Open to under 26 years old. So sorry this one still ada age limit. Not me decide ah...

AKace: Huit, awat hang mention nama aku...malunyer

So I take that as you want to come tmrw la ni?