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Champions must show up
Fri, Dec 19, 2008
The Straits Times

By Wang Meng Meng

WAS the glass half-full or half-empty?

Singapore coach Raddy Avramovic certainly felt it was half-empty after the Lions came away with a 0-0 draw against Vietnam in the first leg of the Asean Football Federation Suzuki Cup semi-final on Wednesday.

Yet his rare public rant, calling his defending champions' below-par performance at Hanoi's My Dinh Stadium the team's 'worst' of the tournament, is understandable.


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