Padang Datuk Arumugam, named after the Port Klang local boy and national footballer, is no longer playable due to lack of maintenance. ― Photos: RAJA FAISAL HISHAN/The Star
PADANG Pekeliling in Port Klang was renamed in honour of Selangor and national goalkeeper Datuk R. Arumugam in 2018, but the football field where one of Malaysia’s finest sportsmen played at is a shadow of its former self.
These days, what is left of the football field are two rusty goalposts and a playing surface that is overgrown with waist-high weeds, shrubs and even a few unplanned trees.
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