December 21, 2004

Several S-league clubs are unhappy with the lacked of transparent of Paya Lebar Punggol as the Hougang based club is not revealing details on 2 of their donors who contributed close to $100000 to the S-league newcomer.

One chairman was reported as saying the S-league had always been careful about who give money to the clubs because of the existing betting element & clubs have a responsibility to declare who give them money, especially if the donors are individuals & the amount considerable.

But Paya Lebar Punggol vice-chairman Steve Lee rebut that as their donors are people from the grassroots & they want to remain anonymous  for fear other clubs might bother them for donations a well.

S-league though is backing Paya Lebar Punggol as the S-league deputy chief executive officer How Seen Tong said at this point there is no reason to believe anything is amiss & they trust Paya Lebar Punngol have taken extra precautions to find out where their source of funding is coming from.

Also he added the club have given the S-league guarantee that the money is not from undesirable sources