Manchester United visit: Poor planning on FAM’s part
Friday, May 25, 2007

IT is regrettable to see the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) in a fix over its decision to go ahead with the proposed visit by the Manchester United football team here in July.

Surely the FAM, having signed the contract — Organisation Association Agreement — which states that no match can be held during the Asian Cup on July 7-29 and three days after, should not have invited or agreed to the English Premier League team’s visit during those dates? To justify the visit on the grounds of it being Visit Malaysia Year 2007, is even more preposterous. FAM could have planned the team’s visit well outside the Asian Cup dates, if it wanted the visit to coincide with Visit Malaysia Year. What happened here is that a lack of planning and foresight on FAM’s part has put it on a collision course with the Asian Football Confederation. There is no doubt that many Malaysians want to see MU in action here, more so during VMY 2007 as it would give a boost to the tourism programme. But we seem to end up doing the right thing for the wrong reason. We believe the Malaysian public had, before this MU row surfaced, spoken enough on the performance of the FAM. What has now transpired only reaffirms what the public has been saying all this while.

Posted by gjoe 11:44 PM  

1 Comment:

1. drvynum said...
   September 4, 2007 at 5:20 AM  
   I think you have moved away from United.Hope to see you back buddy.

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