Soccer fans will need no introduction to Malek Awab, who played for Singapore in what can be called our glory days of the Malaysia Cup. Jerome talks to him about the last match Singapore played in the Malaysia Cup in 1994 – when Singapore won the cup beating Pahang 4-0.

Malek Awab and Jerome Lim of The Long and Winding Road

Jerome writes:

There is probably some level of excitement over the news of Singapore’s re-entry into the Malaysia Cup competition amongst the older football fans who have since 1994, been starved of an annual football tournament that brought a nation together. It was in supporting the Singapore team bringing people from all walks of life, as many as 70,000 of them, on the terraces of the National Stadium and many more who in the comfort and safety of their homes, felt one with those in the crowd. It was in lending support to what had effectively been the National team, and in the experience of the numerous lows and the few highs when the pinnacle was reached, participating singing and chanting both on the stands and at home, that fans wholeheartedly stood as one, as Singaporeans and football fans first.

What was midfielder Malek Awab’s memory of that final match in 1994? Read about it in Jerome’s post here.