June 28,
2004
It would be a match unlike any other as Woodlands
With only
11 games left after this match, it cannot get any tighter & many are
tipping the winner of this match could gain that extra mental toughness to win
the championship.
These 2
sides both coached by English coaches – Woodlands Wellington by Simon Clark
& Home United by Steve Darby – are tied neck to neck with only goal
difference separating them.
With the Protectors having gone through winning a championship one must
feel confident about the Double Champion but not Steve Darby as he cautioned
that this season championship is a total different ball game to last season
when his team strolled to the title without any resistance from rival clubs. He
felt it is a result of the fact that all the 10 teams in the S-league have
improved from last season so every clubs could end up having a say where the
title will end up.
Luck could
be another factor as well in Steve Darby eye but he would rather not depended
on that as there is no guarantee that it would land with the Protectors.
For the
Rams player-coach Simon Clark, he faced the biggest challenge of short coaching
career in getting his players to overcome the mental test of continuing to
challenge for the title as apart from Ahmad Latiff
& Masrezwan Mastrui
none of the other were ever involved in such a situation & there is no
telling how his player would react.
Therefore
he keep telling his players not to worry about others & just be convinced
of their own abilities, for this season they have already exceed all
expectation.
Certainly a
match that could have an important say in the title at Woodlands