Foreign Column

“THE ELEPHANT FUTSAL” SCANDALS

The elephant is one of the intelligent animal. Scientist said that the elephant will be mournful if another one of a herd were died. It is no wonder! when the elephants are drilled how to play football, they will do it very well. Thus, the elephants are the best football team in the animal world. Even, the simpanse, the most intelligent animal, can’t do it.

Nowadays, we heard that two Indonesian Premier Division clubs are being investigated for trying to throw a match that saw five own goals scored. Group N leaders PSS Sleman and PSIS Semarang were squaring off in the final match of their group in the third round of Indonesia's second tier when the farcical scenes took place in what is coming to be known as the "elephant football" scandal.

The question is what was wrong with the elephants? The elephants can play football very well in their world. It was something that the other animals can’t do it. So, the problem is that sometimes we were played futsal looks like the elephants did. We played football with no respect to the team mate, the rivals and to the fans. The game was so absurd, even more, it was disgusting.

Tiger cup 1998, Sleman 2014, and Old Topografi yesterday scandals should became our lessons learned. We have to learn from those amazing animals. Playing with respect and dignity should be shown to the fans. So that, the bizarre scenes like the Sleman scandal last week and Old Toppo yesterday should not happen anymore in the future.    

*Best TEMPE Regards_ Sang Man(Tan)*.