WP MPs and PAP MPs share a football field
Image taken from MP Zaqy Mohamad’s Facebook Page
Opposition MPs from Workers’ Party and the ruling PAP last Friday in a show of unity came together to form a Parliamentary soccer team to compete against a combined team comprising of media staff and representatives.
The parliamentary soccer team was formed by MOS Teo Ser Luck in August which comprises of Parliamentarians as well as Parliament staffs. Last Friday’s match up with the first game the team played.
MP for Aljunied GRC, Pritam Singh, one of the Workers’ Party players, shared his experience in a Facebook note which tickled our funny bone.
The game was played in good spirit and friendly banter. Before the game, I informed MOS Tan Chuan Jin I was a leftie (both in terms of my kicking foot and my general ideological leaning) and that I would be happy to play anywhere on the left side of the pitch. He responded noting that the WP appeared generally rather centrist, to which I agreed to play in the centre if need be, but not before adding in jest that I could be “right-winged” on some matters. A round of laughs ensued. On the bench at the start of the second half, Ag Minister for MCYS MG Chan Chun Sing jokingly noted that if the Parliament team won the game, the media probably would not report the story since we were competing against a combined Singapore media team. I jokingly retorted that such non-reportage would prove the mainstream media was biased! Speaker of Parliament Michael Palmer in good humour, promised me an extra minute of speaking time in Parliament after I scored a consolatory penalty.
Now if this is the direction that the new Parliament is heading, it only bodes well for Singapore. After all, regardless of party affiliation, we all bleed Red and White.
Tan Chuan Jin (MOS) has a photo album of the game on his Facebook page.
