The Kallang Roar! (Part Two)
It was a soccer-crazy school circa 1974 at Tyrwhitt Road. Boys would form 2 teams and play with a plastic ball before or after school at the basketball court and suddenly when you could hear a pin drop that was when the discipline master just stood there watching. When there was a friendly match at the school field, the old school doors left wide opened was ideal, only the teacher conducting lessons was a distraction. When ordered to shut the doors, half of our spirit just died. Fresh from a Malaysia Cup game over the weekend, some teachers would begin by talking about the game - how good Kim Song was, etc. Our school teams were always in the Schools Final be it C, B or A Division. We packed Farrer Park soccer pitches on many Saturdays for social or inter-class games. It was a dream come true when the National Team would sometimes train at our school pitch when Jalan Besar was occupied and I watched first hand how the legendary Uncle Choo Seng Quee trained his charges. That was in...