Simplicity: Man Utd Malaysian Tour

3 times European Champions Manchester United played a remarkable friendly match with the Malaysian XI on Saturday. It was their first visit to our country since 2001 when they trashed the national side 6-0. Manchester United were supposed to come here on 2007 but the tour was forced to be cancelled because their tour clashed with the AFC Cup in which the Malaysian national team participated.

It was always good to see top european club like Manchester United ( I am a Man Utd fan ! ) to visit to Malaysia because local fans can get themselves a fantastic opportunity to get a glimpse on their favourite players and also some of the world best footballers, you can't get better opportunity than that. But instead, i was a bit disappointed because i couldn't get a glimpse on superstars like Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez. Both of them had left to join Real Madrid and Manchester City respectively. Besides, my favourite MU player -- Nemanja Vidic also failed to make the trip after suffered an ankle injury whilst playing for his country. I was hoping to get a signature from him, if i'm lucky T.T.

I could have actually seen Cristiano Ronaldo if Man Utd came to Malaysia 2 years ago. It was an absolutely disappointing decision made by the government to prevent Man Utd from coming to Malaysia 2 years ago. I was so angry at that time.

I only went to Bukit Jalil stadium once in my life and it was 7 years ago, i went there for an athletics competition in which 20+ school representatives participated. I can still remember i participated in 100m and 4x100m. Although i didn't win my pet event -- 100m, but at least i did made it into the final and got so close to get a medal. It was a great experience and huge satisfaction to run in the stadium. Speaking of 100m, i miss it so much.

I bought the ticket for RM 58, the cheapest price and went there with my futsal mates. BUT SUPRISINGLY, WE HAD TO SIT SEPERATELY BECAUSE OUR ENTRANCE GATES WERE DIFFERENT even though we bought the same ticket OOMMFFGG !!!!!!!! Me and my futsal mates weren't aware of this zzzzzz. Ended up had to sit alone T.T ( err... i mean stand alone, at the railing near the entrance there )........... tak biasalah watching a football match alone o.O"

The crowd started to roar after the first Manchester United player ---Edwin Van der sar came out from the tunnel. Most of the people inside the stadium were wearing red shirt.

Both teams produced great quality during the match, especially Manchester United. It was indeed an interesting match to watch as both teams had their own playing style. But sadly, malaysian players were booed when they miss-pass or miss-shot.

Wayne Rooney and Nani scored to put MU 2-0 ahead before Mohd Amri Yahyah scored 2 goals to equalise for Malaysian XI. I gotta admit that both goals scored by Malaysian XI were lucky goals, both of them were scored because of goalkeeper's mistakes, especially the second goal. Ben Foster made a schoolboy error to allow the ball to roll past his leg when he was trying to control it, allowed the on rushing Yahyah to score into the empty net.

The crowd began to roar and cheer loudly when Michael Owen was introduced. He was a good substitution though as he scored the winning goal on 85th minutes, his frst goal for his new club on his debut. The goal shows that Michael Owen was not a bad signing, but instead a bargain signing, he is getting his form back, and when he does, Rafael Benitez and some of the Liverpool supporters will be pissed hahahahaha.

After the match, i waited for my futsal mates to come out. We struggled through the crowd to go back to the Carefour basement parking where Wei Kong parked his car but we were stucked inside the basement parking for about 45 minutes zzz. Traffic jam inside the basement parking ?? thats something new o.O. Anyway, we still reached home safety.

Man Utd will be playing again tonight against the Malaysian XI after their Indonesian tour was cancelled. I wanted to go but sadly i am broke and besides, buying ticket at this time would be troublesome...

It was a superb experience to watch Manchester United playing in Malaysia. I sincerely hope that they will come here again in the next coming years.

Here are the photos, i took it using my handphone because my mom wouldn't let me to bring the RM 3000 camera along, my futsal mates brought the camera but we had to sit seperately zzz. So while waiting for them to send me the photos, these are all i have. Since i took the photos with handphone instead of a camera, so don't expect good quality photos lol.