The Malaysian Junior Hockey farce


KUALA LUMPUR: The MHC-Milo-NSC Malaysia Junior Hockey League (MJHL) made its debut in 1995. Yet after all these years the Malaysian Hockey Confederation (MHC) competitions committee cannot run the league professionally.

This year’s league is just three days old. But from the day they held their team managers’ meeting on Dec 28 there has been one blunder after another.

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