Before the game

Having a chat with Tampines coach Steven Tan before the game. Pic Andrew Him.

Andrew Him, a photographer in Singapore, snapped a couple more pictures of me before the match began on Wednesday night. He also took some great action shots of the game, which he's posted onto his Facebook page. He felt the floodlights weren't strong enough for good photography, but then he's never been to a game at the Olympic Stadium under lights. Then he would have something to be annoyed about. I hear the AFC tested the Olympic lights for their lux value recently and found them hopelessly understrength for international matches. No surprise there.

Reviewing the opposition team line-up with Crown coach David Booth. Pic. Andrew Him.

Back of my head

Updating Facebook at last night's Singapore Cup game. Pic Andrew Him

This guerrilla photo was taken behind my back, quite literally. Andrew Him is a photographer from Singapore who popped up to the press-box at the Clementi Stadium last night and sent me this reminder that I spent most of the match updating the Phnom Penh Crown Facebook page or jumping up and down and shouting whenever we scored - not a great idea as I was sat next to the match commissioner though I gave him a copy of the Crown Yearbook to keep him happy. Thanks for the picture Andrew. For the first time in my life I look almost studious.
I had a brief chat with former Crown head coach Bojan Hodak yesterday as his new team, Kelantan from Malaysia are in the Malaysian FA Cup Final this weekend. The people of the province of Kelantan are mad about their football and in two days of going on sale, 30,000 tickets had been snapped up for the final. They are expecting a 90,000 crowd at the national stadium in Kuala Lumpur with Kelantan providing the majority. In fact the provincial authorities have declared Sunday, the cup final day, as a national holiday.