Malaysia vs. Chelsea FC

I've got many stuff to write since there's lots of cool happenings over the past two days. Btw, I just came back from an outing with *someone* today..haha. Lol, I'll type about all the events slowly, starting from yesterday's long anticipated visit of Chelsea to Malaysia where Stan is fortunate enough to get a ticket for the match.

So, after class, Vincent and me went to change and then set off for our venue at 4.30 pm. It was a comfortable train ride from Nilai to KL central station. But from KL central station, it's just total sardines mashing. We gave one train a miss because really too full already. Then, when the second one came, it was so funny. Vincent just walk inside the train slowly and suddenly a massive jolt just threw him instantly deep into the carriage. Ack, I feel the "love" from all the Malaysians that are squeezed together in the KTM train..lol. We reached Shah Alam station at about 7 pm plus and we had NO idea how to go to the stadium because there's like no taxi or buses in sight. Just lots of clueless blue-coloured fans wandering around the area. We just realised then that we should have stopped at Batu Tiga where all the people just walk straight to the stadium. Fortunately, there's two other Indonesian guys looking for a taxi too and in the end, we found one willing to take us there for around RM13 (with each of us paying RM3 each). That funny taxi fellow was unwilling to take us nearer to the stadium because he scared of the traffic jam but we keep telling him that we won't get out of the car until we catch at least a glimpse of the stadium =p. Btw, we passed by Kelab Shah Alam where I used to hang out when I was small coz my mama used to bring me there.

Shah Alam stadium is simply superb! This is like the third time I'm attending a live football match with a massive crowd (30,000 above). But I have to say, the Singapore national stadium in Kallang is pale in comparison to Selangor's stadium. Anyways, Kallang stadium is old and that's why they wanna pull it down and build a new one. There's a replay screen in the scoreboard of Shah Alam stadium. The atmosphere in the stadium is just wonderful. The roar of the crowd is deafening and it just instills some form crazy feeling that you wanna join with the rest of the stadium and scream your lungs out. Btw, another funny thing is that when the big brothers of Chelsea like Terry, Essien and Lampard got their name called, the stadium roars with excitement. But when it comes to other people like Wayne Bridge or Alex (in which they are quite well known to football watchers though), the crowd didn't shout as enthusiastically.

The match started with cheers from the whole stadium and barely two minutes pass, something 'lol' happened and it looked as if it's like a 'Malaysia boleh' moment. *clears throat*..Wayne Bridge MISSED his kick while trying to receive a high ball. (that's why Cashley gets the left back spot, dude) Oh man, the result was that a Malaysian player went on the attack and nearly drilled the ball past Cech who was feeling a bit blur at the start. Later, it was Chelsea with the majority of the chances. Anelka and Shaun Wright Phillips did a couple of nice runs and beating the offside traps. It was Anelka who drew first blood after using his pace to outrun the sole defender man-marking him. Chelsea did tried a couple more times but kudos to the Malaysian goalkeeper for keeping them out and performing a few nice saves on some shots to keep the score at 1-0 during half time. A few players were introduced during half-time and Chelsea managed to get another one up through "Cashley" Cole. It looked like Chelsea is giving chance to Malaysia but seriously, a scoreline of 2-0 only?? I think the stadium crowd anticipated more in that if they wanna win, they should go all out and butcher the poor Malaysian side. A minimum of 4-0 is expected. They wanna see the GOALS. And Shevchenko still can't score......against a Malaysian side..lol. In any case, it's a nice experience watching a bunch guys which you always see playing in the TV and they are playing right in front of your eyes now. For the Malaysian players which played against Chelsea and exchanged jersey's with them, I think they'll be telling the tale to their sons and grandsons for years to come. Who knows, all of them could have went for a mamak session together late at night =p

The match finished at about 10.45 or so but Vincent and me had no idea where to find the KTM station. We definitely cannot catch the last train already but the problem now is that we don't even know how to get out of the stadium area. It's massive traffic jams and we were clueless where we should spend our night at. One scenario is that we take to KTM station and then spend the night sleeping there and taking the first train that comes. Thankfully, we need not take that path because we were fortunate to have one of Vincent's friend staying around Sunway to get a transport to fetch to us to his house where we tumpang for 1 night. So, I kinda feel glad to be able to get some proper sleep at a proper place to get the freshness in preparation for an anticipated outing that I had with *someone* today..lol. So, we took the 8am something train and headed back to Nilai where I'm going to take a shower and have a change of clothings. The next part of the story will be continued in tomorrow's entry :)