It's a BIG weekend. Man u play Spurs and will Spurs finally kick that hoodoo and win? On top of that Man City need to march on minus Tevez, and will Ballotelli finally deliver? Chelsea expect a tough game at Blackburn, whilst Arsenal WILL have 75 chances to score against West Ham but probably convert 3.
Closer to home though, it's the Malaysia Cup Final with Holders Negri Sembilan meeting Kelantan, the team they beat last year 3-1. Last year though, coach Sathianathan took over Kelantan in the midst of their campaign and made the best of it. This time around though, from day 1, it looked like he was working on their defensive duties and discipline when defending and their fitness.
The result was a harder to break down Kelantan team, but they also looked like they lacked ideas attacking. However, slowly but surely the new brand of football has gotten them to the Final. This time around they are still the underdogs though, with Negri scoring in almost all their matches. But it most areas of the pitch, Kelantan, on paper at least, do have any advantage.
The Negri players have been there and done that and there's no substitute for experience at this level. Kelantan have the weight of expectation of every Kelantanese in Malaysia and they were their hearts on their shirts for sure.
All in all, this looks like it'll be a totally different Cup Final from last year and something to look forward to. The word is that even the 30k tickets allocated to Negri fans have been snapped up by Kelantan. This means the fans could mix in the stadium.
The police will have their hands full, so the hope is that the only action is the one on the field and that we have a Cup Final to remember. My pick is Kelantan to win.
After the past few weeks of ridiculous decisions against Sathia, I hope he wins the trophy and the officials at FAM who hand it over to him, realise this is 2010 and that coaches and players SHOULD to able to talk to the press.
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