safety of players is the priority-My brother Dharma and Roslan decided to wet the pitch than their throat. |
A hockey fan went for a National Hockey League game today with the hope of watching a quality game between THT and UITM and ended up disappointed.
What a day for this hockey fan watching how hockey has fallen to the lowest level today. He shares his interesting day as below.
I left competitive hockey in 1995 since then have not touched or watched hockey till early 2018 maybe. So I decided to come to watch a National League game today and was shocked to see the difference from then to now. The stadium has only max about 20 spectators and the way the organisers have organised this prestigious tournament(once upon a time) is an utter disgrace.
Before the game, THT officials complained of a "Dry Patch" in the field. Next minute I see the THT officials themselves are carrying water in a container to water the dry patch.
This is ridiculous, where are the organisers? Malaysian Hockey Confederation, don't you make sure the game pitch is fully functional for a game of this standard?
What a disgrace the organisation of hockey in this country has become.
Where are the stadium officials to properly water the pitch? It is an AstroTurf for god's sake, if not wet can be dangerous to players. Let that, even on half time 3/4 of the pitch became dry due to sun and pitch was not watered. Seriously, what the hell are you organisers doing? Where is all the money going?
MHC organising committee needs to be answerable for this.
Next is out National Sports Council who I believe is tasked to manage and maintain the first hockey stadium in the country. If not mistaken, it hosted the Champions trophy in 1993 but the upkeep of the stadium, make me want to cry. We used to have a working digital board for high-level games but today we have to human, mending a manual board.
The scoreboard is there. Where is the crowd? |
What else to say, officials should set example,when sports schools teachers smoke bwhat do u want their students t do,
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