July 3, 2004

Tanjong Pagar United have missed out on the signing of Pitipong Kuldilog after a shocked & possibly funny development with the Thai striker deciding to be a monk.

The Thai international had spent a week training at Queenstown impressing the coach & had already agreed terms with the Jaguars.

However he departed back to his homeland to settle personal problems but now he will not be coming back after deciding to put on the saffron robes.

The reasons behind that appeared to be that his parents feeling Pitipong Kuldilog was having a bad year & wanted him to turn to monkhood so as to prevent worse things happening to him. Pitipong Kuldilog agreed with his parent & will be a monk at a monastery for the next 1 month

Tanjong Pagar United coach Karim Bencherifa may have engineered a revival but it is clear the Jaguars are still in need of a class act upfront with only Haris Sumri leading the line.