Goodbye Grand Old Lady
I went to the closing ceremony of the National Stadium on 30 June 2007. To speak the truth, the farewell was really not befitting of the fond memories that the National Stadium had brought to so many of us. The legends match was decided on a tossed coin after a 1 all draw.
Though the Singapore-Australia match was entertaining, Singapore was still trashed 3-nothing. The finale was even more cliche. We were left to our own imagination when the emcees asked us to follow a tracking spotlight to an empty goal mouth ad asked us to imagine Dollah Kassim dribbling past 3 Malaysian players??!! What is this?
What made it worse was that the march past of the past and present athletes was made in total darkness. The floodlights were switched off!!! See what?? The fireworks were also like ‘Huh??!! Like that only ah?’
Oh well, I still managed to get some pictures, fo
r what it’s worth.
Sun sets on the Grand 
Old Lady
