Unthinkable Singapore

So we might not get to watch the World Cup.

They say you can feel the pulse of the nation on sammyboy.com, and yes­ter­day, a heart­felt plea from “Rogue Trader” summed up the dis­be­lief and des­per­a­tion among soc­cer fans around the island.

Dear singtel and starhub,

i writes to you as a foot­ball fans. Please show us all world cup matches this year.

Please note that I write only “matches”. We don’t needs any other chan­nels like:
1) “bench area” view for the both sides’ sub­sti­tute bench and man­agers,
2) the “tac­ti­cal” top-down view where we can only see which player is bald­ing.
3) “Beck­ham” view to show him for full 90 min­utes (or “Chris­tiano Ronaldo” view etc).

I know sin­ga­porean telco/ISP very high tech can show all this. prob­a­bly last time you can charge us more for these chan­nels we didnt choose to subscribe.

Just show us the Live game from the match cam­era view. This way your bid can become cheaper. And then we can all watch the world cup this year.

Thank you!

The other unthink­able thing I read about was how Sassy­jan and her fam­ily were harassed by loan­sharks who struck — the usual paintjob, phonecalls and rip­ping her front gate out — with appar­ent impunity, because her calls to the police resulted in merely inef­fec­tual advice (install a CCTV) while she and her fam­ily cow­ered in fear, half-hoping that our Home Team would be on the job, and that the Inves­ti­gat­ing Offi­cer had a very, very good rea­son not to return her call for an entire week.

Maybe they should change the name of the “The Home Team” to “The Go Out and Pro­tect Our Cit­i­zens Team”. That might do the trick.

Shame!