Things That We Learned From Malaysia FA Cup Final

Terengganu 2 - 1 Kelantan (aet)

Piala FA bukan Rezeki Kelantan?

Dua final dalam tempoh 3 seasons, satu kalah dalam penentuan sepakan penalti kepada Selangor, dan satu lagi tewas selepas waktu tambahan kepada Terengganu... Mungkin 2 season lagi, Kelantan akan menang FA Cup dalam 90 minit perlawanan, who knows...

Bola sepak Sebenar Permainan Orang Jantan!

Banyak pemain-pemain yang terlalu senang terjatuh, tergolek dan injured atau buat-buat injured.... Seriously, orang yang paling aku kesiankan dalam game semalam ialah paramedic... Berlari ke hulu, ke hilir angkut stretcher, lepas tu pemain tadi bangun dan berlari-lari seperti biasa. Terpaksalah mereka usung balik stretcher tersebut keluar dari padang, dan itu pun kalau mereka bertuah. Kalau tak, mereka terpaksa angkut player yang rebah tadi ke luar padang, dan sebaik sahaja melintasi garisan padang, pemain tersebut akan bangun, dan terpaksalah mereka angkut stretcher tadi pulang ke kawasan bangku paramedic mereka... Gila penat kalau setiap 10 minit ada seorang player yang jatuh.

Pada awal permainan, pemain Terengganulah yang paling banyak rebah, kononnya nak provoke player Kelantan untuk dapat kad kuninglah tu, kot? Selepas Kelantan leading, the card's trade... which I am as a Malaysia Supporter raised question about our players ability to stay fit, and brushed away any tackles to stay on their two feet till the end of a game! George Best and Messi could survive a 90 minutes with harsh tackle, why can't our players?

Sentuh sikit, jatuh, baik pergi main trampolin lar weyh!!

Motivasi Penyokong/Peminat di Stadium Mampu Dipersoalkan?

Seriously, I always wonder, how many of them who were there last night is purely for football, supporting their own team, supporting the 'beautiful games' rather than just being there for the sake of the festive environment the sport events always bring in?

Apabila satu free kick dihadiahkan kepada pemain Kelantan di tengah padang pada kiraan aku pada pertengahan permainan separuh masa pertama, seorang pemain Terengganu enggan memberikan bola kembali kepada , jika saya tak silap, Piya (pasal terlalu jauh, so tak berapa sure siapa), Piya jadi berang dan bergelut beberapa ketika dengan pemain Terengganu tersebut (lagilah saya tak pasti siapa...). Pada ketika itu, para penyokong seperti work up! Terlalu teruja untuk melihat aksi pergaduhan dalam padang...

Seriously, if you wanna watch some fight, why don't you go and watch some Taekwondo matches? They both (football and Taekwondo) used leg/feet to kick, they both had referee issues, and while in football, the main purposed is to kick the ball into the opponent goals, and leg-breaking tackle is an accident, in Taekwondo however, the main purposed IS to kick the opponent head, and a leg-breaking block is unfortunate (not foul!)

Owh, by the way, in Taekwondo, we DO HAVE a video technology replay! Suck that, footballers!!

It's Time To Give The Attention Whore A Run For Their Money. 

Seriously, when this fucking attention whore, who the main reason they were in the stadium is to throw objects, and worst, firecracker and firework, will learn? Retard with firework issues shouldn't be allowed in the stadium EVER AGAIN! They almost cost Kelantan the game, even though we're leading the match! Some already blame them for the extra time of the match, which saw Terengganu equalized at the literally the last kick of 90 minutes match!

I can't help but to think this is somehow must be an inside job. In every gates, there were RELA (again, if I'm not mistaken, judging from their uniform, anyway...) inspecting everything that the fans bring in to the stadium, but somehow, they never catch the 'culprit', wonder how much they've been paid to let the fucking retard in, I ain't fucking know...

So, fuck this! If ever a final match been called out coz of this, I will blame those FAM for weak enforcement and those RELA who, during checking all the packages that brought in to the stadium, God's know how can they missed all of it...

And the retard(s), attention whore(s), if they ever being caught, should be ban from be anywhere near any SPORT EVENTS EVER AGAIN by court order, or face some severe fined!

Big Boys and The Glory Hunters!

There were group of people naming themselves as ABK (anyone but Kelantan)? Now, that's an approval of how strong Kelantan squad right now! :D

The only team in the world who famously had a group of anti-supporter known as anything but (which mean they've no team to support, except those who can beat the team that they unlike... a true scum, if you ask me, :p), is Manchester United, known as ABU (anything but United).

So, to have an ABK is like putting Kelantan FA as the same term with United, which is make me flatter, at least... The comparison is somewhat more damning when come to think that, Man Utd too, didn't won the FA cup for about 7 seasons, now...

Dan secara tradisinya, semua 'Big Boys' akan mempunyai Glory Hunter mereka sendiri! Selepas gol pertama Kelantan, seat depan stadium pada bahagian penyokong Terengganu mula kosong. Selepas gol penyamaan mereka, seat mereka di isi kembali, dan para penyokong Kelantan, hampir half of them is quiet like a dead man! Selepas gol kedua Terengganu, iaitu pada minit ke-20 waktu tambahan, separuh stadium sudah kosong kerana kebanyakan penyokong sudah pulang awal.

I can understand those who lived far and got little children with them, but those who don't? You fucking Glory Hunters!! Can't even stand behind your team when they need you the most?

Terengganu is A Worthy Winner!

Their pass was sticking, they play with more purposed and more simple, yet elegant! Honestly, if it wasn't the brilliant of Khairul Fahmi between Kelantan's post, Kelantan were set for humiliating experience last night!

One moment of brilliant from Kelantan's winger produce the first goal of the night, but that's just the start of a great comeback! After the goal, Kelantan was brilliant, they find their true way of play, keeping possession with shot passes. But then, somehow they tried to keep the ball at Terengganu corner flag, a strategy that cost them dear, mostly coz nobody could hold the ball there!

Whoever instruct those tactical is solely to blame for Kelantan defeat, we've got a free kick just outside the penalty box, with a minute more to play, but we choose not to try for goal, instead try to run out the clock, the strategy that turn back to us and cost us the cup...

Take nothing out from the Terengganu though! Although with a little bit of luck from an own goal and the set piece goal, they were brilliant all over the pitch. I don't know why, Kelantan seems lost, their entire midfield was missing, and without Shakir to hold the ball at the heart of midfield, we just had no chance against the rampant Terengganu forwards!

Maybe the win at Kuala Terengganu just four days earlier left them overconfident, but anyhow, there were matter to address by the coach!

It was so close, yet so far, so fucking far... One minute too far!

A Long Journey and Rome Wasn't Build in One Day.

Apabila TSAM mengambil alih tampuk kepemimpinan KAFA (Kelantan Amateur Football Assoc. that's right, somehow, KAFA still maintain the 'Amateur' on their name, despite the game had gone to pro for more than a decade now...), visi utama beliau adalah untuk meletakkan Kelantan sebaris dengan nama-nama besar bola sepak tanah air.

Walaupun selama ini, Kelantan bukanlah nama yang boleh dipandang rendah dalam bola sepak Malaysia. Skuad muda Kelantan telah banyak memenangi kejohanan Piala Emas Raja-Raja, satu pertandingan bertaraf FA Youth Cup di England. Skuad SUKMA Kelantan juga antara yang disegani. Dalam skuad senior pula, Kelantan ada beberapa kali mencabar kelompok teratas Liga utama Malaysia, dan pernah memenangi Liga Perdana 2 pada tahun 2000.

Namun, kekurangan konsistensi telah meletakkan Kelantan selaku pasukan yang kekurangan Piala untuk ditonjolkan sebagai bukti kehebatan skuad mereka dapa era 80-an, 90-an dan awal 2000...

Dengan penstrukturan semula pasukan dan pengurusan di bawah TSAM, Kelantan mula menjadi Chelsea Malaysia, membawa masuk pemain-pemain bintang dengan jumlah perpindahan yang tinggi. Banyak pemain diperoleh daripada key players pasukan-pasukan kuat sebelum ini. Ini meningkatkan keyakinan peminat Kelantan, dan masa suram bola sepak Kelantan pada penghujung 90-an yang di'hiasi' insiden rasuah dan keganasan penyokong disamping keadaan stadium yang dhaif, telah hampir pasti dilupakan...

Kini, dengan Piala Malaysia dan Piala Sumbangsih di dalam tangan, berada pada landasan betul untuk muncul Juara Liga Super buat kali pertama, bermain dalam final ke-lima dalam tempoh tiga musim, I think this team had remind me everything of Manchester United squad of 1992/93 season... The first Fergie's team to won the league, and the first of many which dominate England and Europe for years to come!

This Kelantan squad will be the final jigsaw. The first of many glories yet to come!

Be scared, be really, really scared!!

Gomo Kelate Gomo!!