Back to the article, it's a wishlist for the new S-League Season. I have a few comments, with all due respect, in pink.
- sirennights
[from S-League Website]
Wednesday, January 03, 2007 
QY Chen
Hola! Ohaiyo! Ni Hao! Selamat Datang! Hohoho, a very merry 2007 to all you readers out there!
As we bid a tearful farewell to our horrid hangovers, beer bellies and sore lungs from too much revelling and screaming (what else but the universal countdown chant of “10, 9, 8, 7...”) over the long weekend, it’s time to get down to the most important thing at the start of every swanky, new year – Wishlist Time!
Yes, making a wishlist is as pivotal as coming up with resolutions, because, well, wishes, when they actually do come true, are so much more gratifying.
Yours truly here, happen to have wishlists for everything, for example, Ten Irritating People I Hope I Don’t Have to Meet in 2007, Ten Phrases I Hope I Will Not Blurt When I Get Pissed Drunk in 2007…and the titles go on. Of course, being one of the few female writers of sleague.com (Ladies, where are you? Please drop me an email if you are interested in writing for us!), I thought it’ll also be neat to have a wishlist for the upcoming S.League season.
Too much testosterone can be awfully draining - no innuendo intended -, and once in a while, you need the chicks to come up with plans to make the S.League better. Football, after all, is about having fun, so, who better than us girls to brainstorm and whip up some really smashing ideas that are out of the box and perhaps, actually workable?
Shout-outs to my fellow female partners in crime for your delightful inputs over kopi! You know who you are.
Football hath no enjoyment like a woman high on caffeine. This is what we’d like to see in 2007, and what we think will make S.League rock like never before:
1) S.League Line Dance & Tai-Chi Nights
We’ve seen enough of the Dare Challenges at S.League matches during half-time. Some of the games have been rehashed so many times till we can already predict what will be presented beforehand! Why not have our senior citizens from community centre groups or leisure clubs perform their Line Dance or Tai-Chi routines during half-time? Most of them practise really hard at their craft, so the S.League should provide them with a platform to showcase their effort and passion!
(Hey, HUFC is one of the first local club to have a half-time entertainment for every home matches. At least I have seen Lion Dances, Traffic Police and SCDF performances, dancing, cheerleading etc. I heard that they are bring the half-time show back, can't wait.)
Of course, this is also a way to bring the S.League closer to the local elderly folks. Many people in their mid-life crisis start fearing that they have nothing to do after retirement, what they don’t know is, they can come watch the S.League games LIVE at a stadium near them!
(We used to have an ardent old man in a wheel chair who would come to every HUFC match. He's our most loyal fan. How about line-dancing and old folks singing competition. A few Elvis gig would be really cool.)
2) S.League Theme Events
We figure the S.League is not drawing many teenagers and kids at the moment, primarily because it is just a lot of football…and football. Why not have Theme Events, like S.League Halloween Night (on Halloween, everyone who dresses up in fancy costume enters FREE and gets a FREE pumpkin) and S.League Kimchi Fiesta (now that we have a Korean club playing, make one of their home games a Korean Day of sorts, with free flow of authentic Korean dishes, plus Korean traditional games and dances)?
(Er, you mean you come to matches not for football? So, my gut feel and hypothesis that there are more female spectators when we play Albirex. Works for me though. Voyeurism is an entertainment.)
Football has to be still the main draw of course, but with fringe activities like these (and not just the usual boring free popcorn and lollipops *snooze*), the S.League will be so much more attractive!
3) S.League Clubbing Nightouts
Do S.League and Zouk go together? We think it might just very well do! Clubs with clubhouses (throws seductive winks at Tampines Rovers and SAFFC), please don’t waste your facilities!
Capture the early 20s’ and PMEB crowd by coming up with S.League Clubbing Nightouts, where after an exciting 90minutes of football action, fans & spectators are invited to club and dance to hiphop and trance at the home team’s very own clubhouse! An entrance fee entitles you to two beers/housepours, age limit applies.
(Clubs are great places to relax and network. Just make sure that our local blokes don't club with the same intent and frequency as their England EPL counterparts. Also remember "IF YOU DRINK, DON'T DRIVE!" Hey, HUFC is tagged to MHA.
4) The S.League ‘Yan Dao’ FC
If there is one sureproof way to get the fairer sex to attend S.League games, it would be to start a ‘Yan Dao’ FC (‘Yan Dao’ means suave and handsome in the Hokkien dialect); a 20-man squad comprising the best looking dudes in the league to compete against the other 12 teams.
Who cares if they can play good football or not? If each of them looks like Takeshi Kaneshiro or Bae Yong Jun, you can bet that sheer numbers of ogling aunties and teeny boppers will be turning up in full force, armed with cameras and microscopic lenses!
(I knew there was an ulterior motive. The players from the other 12 teams will probably try to disfigure the faces of the "Yan Dao" team - so that they can join the Yan Dao team themeslves.)
5) The S.League Superstar/Idol Contest
Look at how Singapore Idol and Project Superstar have created a storm in Singapore. Mark our words, Reality TV is BIG and we hope S.League jump onto the bandwagon too.
Round up a bunch of weekend warriors, give them the chance to make the leap from amateur hero to professional S.League-r (the winner gets the chance to play a major S.League game with the club of his choice), and tada! Not only does S.League get maximum exposure, this could very well be the next biggest show on television.
(Another great idea. Chicks Talk Football probably yearn for a swimsuit category.
<--- Anyway, for preview, check out the new H2O ad featuring some of the S-League boys. Think they forgot the HUFC guys by accident.)
Chicks Talk Football is an irregular column that strives to give the female voice in an otherwise very masculine world of soccer. The writer might seem to ramble with irreverence, but seriously, she hopes her points are taken with heart.
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