It was very easy for many of us to get angry with Malaysia's 10- 0 humiliating loss to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
It was easy to make jokes about the team's performance, the players, coach Dollah Salleh and of course everyone's favourite rag doll - the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM).
I was one of them, forwarding jokes, memes and all that.
Yes, Malaysia were terrible. Worse than terrible. They deserve the brickbats or their performance. No doubt about that.
It wasn't as if they played against Uruguay, Argentina and England right?
Dollah definitely has to go and there definitely needs to be a revamp of FAM from top to the bottom.
But we Malaysians supporters are no better. We are die-hard fans when they do well but are quick to dismiss them when they lose.
We also like to point our fingers at everybody else but ourselves.
Whether it's at FAM, the coach, the players, politicians and even the government.
But I can say that we are not the greatest of fans. Except for the AFF Cup final games or the odd game such as against Singapore, the stadiums are almost empty.
The team is not performing but they are not 10-0 bad. Just like Brazil are not 7-1 bad. Sometimes it just happens in football. It is one of those unexplainable things in football.
We can continue to support the likes of Liverpool and Arsenal although they can lose 6-1 or 8-2.
We can always proclaim that they will never walk alone and such, but why can't we do the same for our national team?
They need our support, but we can't even go to the stadium to show it.
The team is at its bottom now. We Malaysians have to rally behind the troops.
It is easy to wear the colours of your favourite team when they are winning but not when they are down.
Harimau Malaya will play against Saudi Arabia this Tuesday in Shah Alam.
The fans can go to the stadium and show that they support the team no matter what - win, lose or draw.
So let us get behind our own team. Selamanya!
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