Singapore failed to take bronze after Vietnam Under 21 edge Singapore Under 21 1-0 with a goal in the 87th minute courtesy of Hoang Dinh Tung.Vietnam dominated the match but failed to convert most of the chances. Meanwhile,Iran clinched the trophy after beating Thailand 2-1 in the final held yesterday. Click to continue reading...

That's some cold, And-1 sh*t right there. If he could finish on a move like that the U.S. might have a shot at not looking like chumps next week in the FIFA Futsal World Cup. The Yanks are one of 20 teams competing this year and are in group with Italy, Thailand, Paraguay and group favorites Portugal. Click to continue reading...

Got this from the Vietnam FA websites. Group A Singapore 0-6 Iran Iran 1-0 Myanmar Singapore Under 21 need a win against Myanmar today to advance to the semi-final.Iran through to the semi-final. Group B Vietnam 4-2 Malaysia Malaysia 1-4 Thailand Thailand and Vietnam are through to the semi-final. Click to continue reading...

I've mentioned, nay, mocked, the absolute lack of goals up in the Thai Premier League on a good few occassions. If we look at title challengers Chonburi, who currently sit second a point behind leaders PEA, they have played 26 games and these, as best as I can transliterate, are their leader scorers

6 - Thana
5 - Ekkapon
4 - Pithip, Jules Baga
3 - Nattaporn (? Click to continue reading...

Thailand's King's Cup will be held next January between the AFF Cup and the Asian Cup Qualifiers. With the team going to Hanoi next month for the Agribank Cup new coach Peter Reid is hitting the ground running.

The Thais have also appointed Tawan Siripin as Reid's assistant. Tawan was the first Thai player I came across during the dream team era of the mid 90's and it's good to see his experience is being put to good use. Click to continue reading...

Singapore Under-21 team will be participating the competition that will be held on 20 September at Hue City,Vietnam.Singapore is grouped together with Iran and Myanmar in group B while Thailand,Vietnam and Malaysia are in group A. Top two teams in respective group will qualify for the semi-finals.Only three players in the Young Lions squad are in [. Click to continue reading...

Apparently there is some Tournament Challenge Cup being hosted by Myanmar in November which Indonesia are considering entering. Possibly featuring the likes of India, China, Thailand, Maldives, India as well as Myanmar and Indonesia but at this moment no one is too sure whether it is to be an Under 23 comp or not. Click to continue reading...

The Young Matildas will be playing in the ASEAN CUP in Thailand so they'll miss the big W-League kick-off.

Sydney FC Coach Alen Stajic will also miss the Sydney opening couple of games. He's the YM Coach. Apparently the AFC changed the dates. Great work AFC. One of the few National Women Leagues in Asia and . Click to continue reading...

It finally looks like the National Stadium has shut for good. Now it has been revealed the turf at Jalan Besar Stadium will be relaid in December, during the AFF Cup.

Should the Lions reach the semis or final the games will be played home and away and now Singapore's flagship stadiums will be unavailable. Click to continue reading...

My column this week on espnstar.com looks at Peter Reid and the challenge he faces taking Thailand to the 2014 World Cup Click to continue reading...

Thailand have changed their official colours from red to yellow. Yellow is the colour strongly associated the highly revered monarch and officials hope it will bring them luck in the new era that sees Peter Reid tasked with helping them qualify for the 2014 World Cup.

Blue will continue to be their second shirt. Click to continue reading...

When Joey Barton fought the law (and the law won), he gave up his right to play professional football.  Barton's criminal record contains not just a solitary infringement of the law but many.  Perhaps Barton's most gratuitous act of violence came when he assaulted of 15 year-old Everton fan in a pre-season tour of Thailand, [. Click to continue reading...

Taken from the Bangkok Post

Thai trio wait and see
TOR CHITTINAND

The selling of Manchester City to the Abu Dhabi United Group for Development and Investment will not immediately affect the three Thai players on the club's books, according to an associate of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Click to continue reading...

Here's one of those random news stories we read about every season: Born in the same Liverpool suburb as current well-known midfielders Steven Gerrard and Joey Barton, Peter Reid had a solid playing career, most notably at Bolton, Everton, and Manchester City. He won the FA Cup and old First Division twice (both at Everton). Click to continue reading...

Here's one of those random news stories we read about every season:

Born in the same Liverpool suburb as current well-known midfielders Steven Gerrard and Joey Barton, Peter Reid had a solid playing career, most notably at Bolton, Everton, and Manchester City. He won the FA Cup and old First Division twice (both at Everton). Click to continue reading...

The draw for the tournament was held today in Jakarta.

Initially there will be a qualification round in Phnom Penh featuring Philipines, Timor Leste, Cambodia, Laos and Brunei. The top two will then join the six seeded teams and fight it out for the AFF Championship in December.

Defending champions Singapore return to Indonesia who they beat in the the first leg of the final 3-1 back in 2005 at a wet Bung Karno if I recall

Group A -

Indonesia, Singapore, Myanmar, 2nd Qualifier

Group B -

Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, 1st Qualifier

Two venues are to be used in Indonesia, Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta and Jaluk Harupat in Soreang, West Java.

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Found this shirt on e-bay. The sale is over now, but I think it came from Thailand. Made me laugh. I actually considered buying it, and wearing it out in public, and waiting for some snooty person to say, "Ahem. Nicolas Anelka is NOT a number Click to continue reading...

Manchester City have problems both on and off the pitch. Off the pitch their future is uncertain; their Thai  owner Thaksin Shinawatra has offered to resign from the club's board and is on the run from the authorities in Thailand. On the pitch, they have problems in attack with Valeri Bojinov, Benjani and Darius Vassell [. Click to continue reading...

Plus ca change. In June 2007, we expressed our concerns over the new ownership taking over at Manchester City. "The military government in Thailand have already tried to seize all of his assets once", we said. "I can imagine more stable financial backgrounds that he could have come from", we said. Did anyone listen? Click to continue reading...

Chelsea are ready to raid Manchester City with an £8million move for teenage striker Daniel Sturridge - and make him the new Didier Drogba. Roman Abramovich's club have the cash to snatch the 18-year old prospect who has been on their wish list for a couple of seasons, and rumour has it a three-man delegation representing Chelsea watched him playing last night. Click to continue reading...

I wrote a couple of days ago about Thaksin Shinawatra, the Man City owner and how he had skipped bail in Thailand and and was effectively "on the run" in London.  I speculated on what Mark Hughes must have been thinking with the whole situation after only being in charge at Eastlands for three months [. Click to continue reading...

While the leagues in Europe are just starting up there is still plenty of footballing news. This week transfers, Olympic football and Joey Barton all feature. The good The Olympics are in full swing and so is Olympic football. Not so important in Europe but taken very seriously by South America. So far it's been good [. Click to continue reading...

At a press conference yesterday the FA were forced to defend the quality of the upcoming Independence Cup.

Libya were once runners up in the African Cup of Nations but only when they hosted it while Cambodia and Brunei have had marginally less impact on the football stage than a three legged hedgehog. Click to continue reading...

Thaksin is running from the law in Thailand, seeking asylum in England, dirt poor, and...

...shopping with his family! Click to continue reading...

Despite all the rumours of human rights abuse, Thaksin Shinawatra passed the Premier League club owner "fit and proper test". Why? Because he had money. Lots and lots of money. But now Shinawatra is in all sorts of trouble. The Thailand Supreme Court has issued a warrant for his arrest, after he failed to appear in [. Click to continue reading...

Suzuki Motor Corporation will be AFF Cup title sponsor and will be name AFF Suzuki Cup 2008.The biennial event will be co-hosted by Thailand and Indonesia in December following a five-team qualifying tournament in Cambodia in October. Six team have qualified automatically for the AFF Cup 2008.They are Singapore,Thailand ,Malaysia,Vietnam,Myanmar and Indonesia. Click to continue reading...

Here are the fixture: 9 Oct:Philippines vs Singapore 11 Oct:Singapore vs Thailand 13 Oct:Singapore vs Australia Click to continue reading...

We gave a little plug to a Newcastle United fan site in Thailand yesterday, and we've had requests to publish other Newcastle fan web sites around the world – so we will be putting these up on a sidebar, with where they are all from. Click to continue reading...

The draw for this year's ASEAN Football Federation Championships, to be hosted by Indonesia and Thailand, will take place in Jakarta on 27 August.

The tournamnet will be held in December and has been won the last couple of times by Singapore. Click to continue reading...

14/01/09 Oman v Indonesia, Iran v Singapore, Jordan v Thailand, Malaysia v UAE
28/01/09 Indonesia v Australia, Singapore v Jordan, Thailand v Iran, India v Malaysia
14/11/09 Kuwait v Indonesia, Singapore v Thailand, Uzbekistan v Malaysia
18/11/09 Indonesia v Kuwait, Thailand v Singapore, Malaysia v Uzbekistan
06/01/10 Indonesia v Oman, Singapore v Iran, Thailand v Jordan, UAE v Malaysia
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Canberra's Nick Schlie is representing Australia at the World Deaf Cup 2008 in Patras, Greece.
Australia are drawn against Russia, Thailand and open today against Turkey. Click to continue reading...

Although it's unlikely we will have any overseas guys back, so maybe not so easy.


Draw is on July and five teams in each group and two go through from each group.
THE SEEDINGS AND POTS

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
1. Japan 6.China 11. Click to continue reading...

On June 7 2008,  the Japan National Team had a match in the 3rd Qualifier of the FIFA World Cup 2010 against Oman. This was the same opponent as last week in Japan but this time it kicked off at 5:15 PM in Masqat, Oman. The weather was astonishingly humid and muggy and because [...] Click to continue reading...

The latest home defeat to a team from the Gulf, this time Bahrain, has meant the Thai national team's World Cup qualifying hopes have all but disappeared. Played in extremely humid conditions and in front of only a half-full Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok, the home side played all the quality football but a lack of [. Click to continue reading...

The former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra flew back home today for the first since he was ousted in a coup 17 months ago, and immediately surrendered to immigration police who arrested him on corruption charges.

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