Four ex-journalists have created something so connective, humane and glorious as sport through an event called Sports Flame.
PETALING JAYA: When it came to leading the sports conversation in the past decades, four newspaper journalists took the ball and ran.
Football greats Chow Chee Keong , Soh Chin Ann and Santokh Singh at the third edition of Sports Flame. He said Sports Flame was also about the pride of achieving dreams at the highest level, surviving the challenges that came with it, and bringing glory to Malaysia. What was to be a dinner reunion of 10 different sports personalities every month morphed into seven casual, warm and cosy yearly editions.
The first edition saw Malaysia’s 1975 hockey world cuppers meeting India’s Aslam Sher Khan – the full-back who virtually put the host nation out of the final – for the first time after 36 years. “Sports bonded us,” said Velu, 73. “They were not people whom you interviewed and forgot about later.” “We were not experts in some of the sports, and they taught us well, supplying the news that made great copy.”
Das and his amigos brought thoughtfulness and humanity to sportswriting as reporters, columnists and editors with the New Straits Times, Malay Mail and Sports Mirror.At times, their searing opinions got them into battles with sports figures and associations.It involved Sultan Abu Bakar College hockey coach Douglas Gomez who was allegedly assaulted by the then sultan of Johor.
Rokk, Fauzi and another prominent journalist, Johnson Fernandez, were at the centre of the semi-pro football match-fixing expose of the 1993-94 season.
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