FIFA World Cup Football Blog

This entry is not particularly related with World Cup, but with the next tournament is 4 years away the blog needs to go on right? Also this entry is not really related to the facts that I wanted to participate in Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger Group Writing Project and I need a fresh entry badly in order to be included
Why Malaysia some of you might ask. Well, the fact is I’m from Malaysia and we football fans are famously known worlwide as the ‘glory hunter’. We even had a special mention in a wiki page below: Wiki Glory Hunter. Better still if you type in ‘Malaysia glory hunter’ in Google, you will get what I mean.
Here are the tips to become one of us:

• You must always root for an English Premier League (EPL) team, any team will do. Eventhough the game is much better in Spanish La Liga or the World Champion came from Italian Serie A. Malaysian Super League is definitely a no no.
• But do not proclaim lifetime support for any particular team. Ever. You must be flexible enough to change teams accordingly. Always root for the ‘in’ team and current flavour. You do not want to be labelled as loser, don’t you?
• Do not buy the original shirt of your favourite team. Why spend RM300 when you can buy the same ‘localised’ version for RM30? No one will notice (yes, the counterfeiter is that good over here). Furthermore you would not feel too bad when the team become bad all of sudden and it’s time for the annual team-changing ritual.
• Once you settled for a team for that season, now is the time to get to know every playing staff of that team. Bonus point for recognizing their Reserve Team players too. The fact that you could not even named a single player from Malaysia national team squad does not matter.
• You must have enough stamina and energy to catch all those live telecasts matches showed at ungodly hours of local time. Even if it’s weekday night and you have an-all important Power Point presentation to your boss in a few hours.
• You must remember the facts from that match too. The facts will come in handy during lunch hour banter with your office colleague the next day.
• Read all the info related with EPL. Match reports, statistics, gossips, whatever. By doing this, you can impress the hot chick at the office with useless facts such as the number of passes Arsenal needed before they can score a goal. Even if you don’t have a slightest idea on which team is the reigning champion of Malaysia FA Cup.
• You must be realistic enough to know that there’s no chance in hell that Malaysia would be ever qualify to World Cup during your lifetime. So every 4 years choose an adopted country to support (Brazil and Italy always the safest choice). Repeat step 1-7 and adapt to international scene.