Actually, this is a good time for someone to fall on the sword to save face for FAM and the whole country. If I am there lah, I would offer to sacrifice myself for some payment of course. Later I go apologise to the whole country and take all the blame for doing this and maybe go to jail for falsifying government docs (need one fall guy from JPN also). They just need someone to be the fall guy so that we can all move forward from this embarrassing incident. Keep trying to menegakkan benang yang basah is absolute stupidity on the part of FAM.

FAM = Aeon Tebrau

next episode on the expendables.
But if FAM gets thrown under the bus, den why even pursue CAS?

Tunku Ismail also reiterated his defence of the seven players involved in the scandal, insisting that questioning the National Registration Department’s (NRD) integrity could lead to a slippery slope where the citizenship of every Malaysian is questioned.


“Say you have two documents - a foreign one saying that your grandfather was born overseas, and another local one saying your grandfather was born here. Which one is correct?

“Why does theirs have to be correct and ours have to be wrong? If our documents are wrong, you all might not be Malaysians - you could be Indonesians. If you can question NRD’s documents, maybe none of you are Malaysians,” he wryly added.

Pointing fingers

He also lashed out at certain quarters who he said appeared intent on “blaming” him for the situation affecting FAM and the national players, highlighting that such unfounded accusations do not tally with his contributions to the football scene.

Tunku Ismail said such finger-pointing aimed at him is often coupled with a lack of focus on more pressing issues, such as concerns about why Malaysian football “is not progressing”.

“Like the crisis of financial mismanagement in clubs, and inadequate grassroots development - why don’t these topics ever come up? Players not getting their salaries also get no media coverage.

“Everyone wants to point fingers, everyone wants to act like they’re right. Even if they blame me, what do they get out of it? I’m still here. I still love football. I don’t understand what their initiative or main agenda is,” he lamented.