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By IAN YEE alltherage@thestar.com.my During Tottenham Hotspur’s pulsating 2-2 draw at Newcastle United last weekend, Spurs fans witnessed a sadly familiar sight. It wasn’t that of Rafael van der Vaart getting substituted in the 64th minute looking like he’d just played the full 90-plus extra time, or that of another exciting, talent-filled Harry Redknapp side […]
By IAN YEE alltherage@thestar.com.my The young photographers who took part in our R.AGE Photowalk at Jalan Sultan in Kuala Lumpur last Saturday went back with so much more than just a bunch of nice photos. They went home with a greater appreciation for the history behind many of the storied buildings around KL city that […]
You know there’s something wrong with football when Roberto Mancini can take the moral high ground without the rest of the world keeling over in fits of laughter. But that’s how crazy things are over at Manchester City. A manager who spends a few hundred million pounds on players and still complains about not having […]
Dancer Norbaizura Abdul Ghani had to train for an entire month, seven days a week and 14 hours a day for her classical Indian dance performance at the Selangor Young Talent Awards 2011.
If there ever was a definite sign that a team will not qualify for the Champions League, it would have to be a humiliating defeat by Blackburn Rovers under Steve Kean. The naive little puppy of a manager somehow got his Rovers to put in a performance that much less inept than Arsenal’s, and that […]
The only thing more frustrating than Manchester United’s performance against Benfica last night was the bloody commentating. United were lucky to have drawn level? They were dominated by Benfica now, were they? Gimme a break. The two commentators just wouldn’t let it go. Yes United were below the lofty standards they’ve set for themselves this […]
Fabio Capello has been praised for giving youth a chance, while Roberto Mancini got a pat on the back for taking a gamble on a free agent. If I had not known any better, I would have thought that I had woken up to the footballing equivalent of 28 Days Later. Just imagine, a desolated […]
By IAN YEE We always joke about the stereotypical Malaysian student who returns overseas from an overseas university– we tease them over their accents (whether they acquired one or not) or whenever they order a “cafe latte” because, you know, “kopi O” just isn’t good enough for them now. Okay, so maybe some of them […]
I really don’t want to write too much about Manchester City. I really don’t. I was actually going to just do my predictions for the season, but right after my last entry on how City have been gleefully living up to their tag as the rich, noisy neighbours of English football, I read about that […]