Schools rugby back on the front page

So it seems the Great Padang Riot of 1984 has been matched by an inci­dent of thug­gery at the schools’ rugby final.

Accord­ing to the ST report, a Saint Andrew’s School player punched an ACS (I) player after the final whis­tle had gone, spark­ing a melée at the Police Acad­emy (wah, dar­ing ah?) field that involved sev­eral dozen school­boys and teachers.

Thugs, these SAS boys! What on earth were they think­ing? But the ACS boys prob­a­bly pro­voked their oppo­nents with a bit of smart mouthed sledg­ing. Things like, “Hey, look at the score­board. Oh wow, you lost. Geez. Sorry”.

Cos it was like that when I played, and we had play­ers from oppos­ing teams call up their ver­sions of the dreaded Sar Lak Kau, who’d be wait­ing for us at the bus-stop after the game, to beat us up, only to be sledged again before the cops arrived.

But any­how, con­grat­u­la­tions, boys, for putting school rugby back on the front page! Don’t mat­ter if ACS or SAS won. School sports was the win­ner on the day!