Comments by "ORIGINAL THAI" football supporter

"Singapore is not an original team! The team is made up of foreigners. I want to be at the stadium for the final because I am proud to be a Thai. I want an original Thai team to beat this team of foreign recruits. Maybe they should not call this the Asean Football Championship. They should rename it as the World Cup because almost half the Singapore team came from other countries."

- Ma Wen Chang, a 56yr old Thai-Chinese businessman


I say, your brain is at the back of your arse! Stop being sore about lossing the first leg to us! Ain't your fore fathers from CHINA? So tell me, in what way do you consider yourself ORIGINAL? Pls do not indirectly INSULT yourself. It just makes you look silly!

Stop being narrow minded and discriminating. Just because they are of different skin colours and of different culture, they are no less Singaporeans?

We are a multi-ethnic squad but we are united.

On the 2006 French national soccer team, 17 of the 23 players were members of racial minorities, including many of the most prominent players. The team features players from the overseas dept and players who are themselves immigrants or the children of immigrants from former French colonial possessions. Among them, Zinédine Zidane, Franck Ribery, and Nicolas Anelka are Muslims; Zidane is the child of immigrants from Algeria; Lilian Thuram, William Gallas and Thierry Henry are all of Antillean origin, the first two coming from the overseas department of Guadeloupe and Henry the child of parents born in Guadeloupe and Martinique; Anelka's parents originate from Martinique; Florent Malouda was born in French Guiana; Patrick Vieira immigrated as a child from Senegal. Also, Éric Abidal was born in Martinique, Claude Makélélé from Zaire, and Louis Saha, Sylvain Wiltord, and Pascal Chimbonda having parents who hail from Guadeloupe.

There are, of course, many examples of countries playing with a ethnic diversity background.

This world will be a much better place, if peeple like Mr MA, can stop having caveman like mindset!