I don’t understand why Sg wants to invest in football in particular as opposed to all other sports. We have limited land space and football fields are huge, void decks prohibit playing football also (for safety reasons). Kids have nowhere to play currently so you can’t develop football culture easily. Better to invest in an easily accessible sport which can easily have kids playing from young - like badminton, running, etc - helps cultivate a healthy nation with a competitive spirit. Football? Nah - we’re historically probably hundreds of years behind countries like Brazil and England. I got a feeling that we want some of that wealth from football commercialisation but it’s not practical in Sg imo. Also you need an entire team of top-notch professionals to win in football CONSISTENTLY - coaches, players, psychologists. No country in the world has been consistent at football as it’s so damn hard (how many can even afford to win the World Cup twice in a row? That’s how short lived it is) - you can’t just rely on one genius player like Cristiano Ronaldo but a whole team of top players playing at the same time with Chemjstry (if not, remember how England flunked out in the 2010s despite having world class players playing together). We’re wasting a lot of money at this rate trying to win at a losing and highly unpredictable game.

If we don't have the football fields readily available at grassroots, at all heartlands location for kids to kick balls around n engage in districts competition, no way to build or spot talents for next level selection. FAS in the last 30 years has no clue to how to forward Singapore football nor do Bernard who's just stating the obvious. Bernard did used the excuse that we are a small country n are limited

Patience is key, and so we wait.

People keep comparing to the Singapore Team in the Malaysian league. I think that is a wrong comparison. Singapore in the malaysia cup was only a semi pro club team. Singapore the national team was not ever a powerhouse even in south east asia let alone whole of asia.

we don't have icon? Ma'am Ho Chin? Isn't she? another one - LHL, holy shit, both covered 3/4 of Singapore sky. - If we don't give our young graduates a chance to be employed in Entry level, how we get them into Midlevel and to Managerial level? - you say, no one is interested, I don't think so. After all they selected and had invested his own time in that subject. Obviously there are areas where, no choice no fish, prawn also good or burn out. But majority will not want the work is becz the peanut you pay them compering the bragging u put to world about Singapore high salary etc.... let discuss.. n identify where went wrong....

Very brave for the president to even agree tot his interview, but are we hanging on too much to the past?

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Step down please with you around football can't stay long

One only needs to use the MOE secondary schoolfinder filter to find out that, no SAP secondary school offer football as a CCA. Only about half the secondary schools offer football as a CCA too. Address that, make every school have football CCA, help the school if otherwise, then we talk about other things.

Please, please spend some money and play countries like San Marino or Andorra in friendlies and from there gauge what is reality first.

Pay each footballer $20000 per month

if this clown got iq singapore football wont be so shit already

Win the SEA Games GOLD first, b4 embarking on more ambitious plans. Otherwise, forget about 'qualifying' for the World Cup.

Don't forget that in Malaysia Cup football, there's such a thing termed 'KELONG'! Could this have led to our 4-0 victory in th 1994 final?

Glad to hear Bernard’s conviction and FAS’s plan to improve Singapore football. Let’s support this dream!

Accepted as a rice bowl?😅

Has the Min of sports taken all the credit?🤭🤣🤭🤣🏳️🏳️🏳️🐑🐑🐑🐑

I love the 7-0. Very humbling 🏳️🐑

I think if we really want to improve our football, we must pour in billions to put our money where our mouth is. It is not that we are greedy or lustful, but he world has changed so much if we want to play the game we must put in the money where all the merchandise and franchising action is. To put it simply, football is big business. Not just for the players and officials but also the spectators. Pour in the billions Singapore if you are really interested, otherwise, forget about the whole thing.

It's mission impossible. No point investing in football. We don't have the money like other countries. Football is a big money game. We should not keep on pouring money into a losing game

Singaporeans have a negative culture called Bo Bian which is essentially SURRENDER without trying due to FEAR. So, we can just give the excuse that the present pathetic situation is Bo Bian one mah. This way, we don't need to find an excuse nor do anything about it

Together with Hock Seng and Thava

STEP DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He always gets his message across with a little icing on it, just in case...😂😂😂😂

Wow! What happened to Viswa? Trying to mellow down.Nah....you know I know lah! 😅😅😅😅😅😅

It is obvious that the interviewer is critical & subjective in his questions to corner the interviewee. Whenever Kishore is trying to explain or elaborate, he will just cut his answers and divert to another question asap. This is never an interview about Kishore latest book release. The interviewer is only interested in Kishore controversies with various academics & his pro-China views in his books. The interviewer didn't seemed to read any of Kishore books and was rude to say Kishore is cocky and not looking in his eyes in the past. It is more like a personal grudge that he has been seeking so many years to get back on Kishore in a video. He also tried to be sarcastic by suggesting that the China is the country whom has downloaded Kishore book the most (suggesting a pro China book is only interested by the Chinese), which was then replied with a slap on his face when it was revealed the book is written in English with top 3 readers from Malaysia, Singapore & USA. Even the US has more readers than China. It is also rude to suggest that the Kishore as an insecure person as if he is a close friend for many years or a psychologist of Kishore? What a joker!

Bro living in 1994 when Singapore was just a state club while other SEA nations are moving forward. He'll bring us nowhere

Honest words indeed

The game is a failure in the last 15 or 20 years i n Spore the success was in the Youth olympic team in 2010 go coach Kadir players where are they Mr Bernard Tan get your house in order still luv my Spore soccer active involve in Aust soccer😂

Are we prepared to ask inconvenient questions? I think not because such questions require suspending your beliefs and worldviews, and it's a lot easier to stereotype and make judgements and not have to consider other permutations of the "truth".

Oh plse!!! Dun get swell-headed shorty. U are just a PRC apologist

Viswa.... u r too politically correct to be conducting these interviews. Bertha wants to day more and you are teasing it out from her. She was raring to offer more.... and it all ended so abruptly. Very anticlimactic.

With respect to Pap they rule Singapore like thugs. Gangster similar like almost dictator rule how to respect such rulers unfit. To rule there 4. HV to b replace d intention was for them to rule not attempt to Own. Stupid ministers thinks Singaporeans so. So so silly we. HV to b bold n confident to speak what is d Truth. It is 2025 January not. In d 70ies

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There wont be reasoned discussion because as you said, there is asymmetry of power. My opinion wont be as right as the prime minister or any minister. They are always right i,as an ordinary powerless citizen, is always wrong.

Singapore is only a democracy as young as an infant compared to Robust , advance economy and democracy of South Korea. The two countries have similarly well educated citizenry but singaporeans have a lack of democracy culture that's true to the term democracy

Great episode👍 Viswa's take on why Indian singaporeans or Indian race at large are more vocal tallys with my personal views. I like Indians in this perspective. Many non Indian singaporeans like me who are vocal and not brainwashed by the state want a sg with more vocal citizenry who are not Encumbered by the Fear factor in singapore so that they can speak like a free human. But reality is there js a Shortage of such people in singapore where Indian race form a minority. We need more of them but may not be able to achieve this due to race Ratio that's being maintained in some ways. In addition, not all indians are vocal but generally due to their linguistic genetics or centuries of culture of learning and using one of rhe most difficult languages in the world. There are a million languages in India at least. The rest of singaporeans generally are prisoners of Fear though there are exceptions. Once FEAR is murdered, Change will come. Change can mean Forcing PAP to change so that they stay IN Power or just kick them out if all things fail

First try to understand human shortcomings which every human is inherited with eg subjected to illusion, imperfect senses, tendency to make mistakes and finally the tendency to cheat. If this is so, then no human is perfect hence trying to make someone change for the better through youtube would not make much difference. The saying goes " it is easier to wake up a sleeping person but not one who pretend to be asleep. Guess what race am i?😅

Unless someone has a backgound of what he is thinking, onnly he himself understands what he is trying to say. As usual, quote LKY.

Regarding the point Kumar brought up about foreign workers, I do not know specifically he was referring to the professionals or those in the blue collar jobs. For blue collar jobs, what can we expect if not many S'poreans want to do construction work, clean the streets, road digging etc ? In fact, I do respect them for helping to do all these dirty work, and also there were even some who had saved S'poreans from dangers risking their lives too. Yes, they do have their own cultures , but being so far away from their homes, and meeting their own in a foreign country , they too need companionship and celebrate in their own ways.

The malay Pm ok ok lah...but still have to voice out 4 malay who love yo be SAf polit or SIA pilot...

Encik yatiman semoga sihat2 selalu..aamin.

Wow, very interesting views

Dun forget that in 1965, everybody has a choice to choose to be a Malaysian of Singaporean.

Don't know who this guy is. Why don't they interview Akmal saleh from Malaysia? Akmal is actually the real allah.

I thoroughly enjoyed the interview - really helped with my thoughts. Talking about special privileges. What I have always questioned is whether there are equal opportunities for everyone. So is it right that the children of certain powerful people are given opportunity that common people don't enjoy? For example, that internship in a prestigious banks/law firms etc.

Amazing lady, such articulate, intelligent and very eloquent!

Funny comedian kumar😂

Both parties should apologize to voters. Footages of videos leaked to social media showed volunteers from both side doing childish acts. Who is right or wrong but need to show respect to each others!

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