More predictable than the World Cup

THE other day, during a StarTV podcast I hosted with former deputy minister Ong Kian Ming as the guest, I asked him about this month’s most important prediction: Who will win the World Cup?

Ong confessed he has a soft spot for England. Despite years of inevitable heartbreak, he told me he still hopes that this time, football is “really coming home”. I told him that I used to be an England fan myself, but after enduring consecutive disappointments for decades, I finally gave up on them.