Sorry guys for not posting for so long. It had been a tedious, tiring and stressful month for me and I think for everyone as well. Tests are coming and the workload is increasing. With CCA and homework to juggle, it is quite a marvelous feat for me to be still surviving and not dead from exhaustion. We are only secondary 2 and I wonder how we are going to manage in Secondary 3. However, this is not the point of this blog post. Just wanted a channel to vent my “anger”.

Moving on. I am sure that all of you, if not most of you had heard of the ACSI and SAS “interesting” and “exciting” rugby match. It was more of a boxing tournament though. Some background information for you guys, for those who have yet heard about this incident.

At the B Division finals of the rugby competition, ACSI emerged victorious against SAS by a mere margin of one point, 8-7. This is such a thrilling match that is not to be missed. However, the show was not over after the final whistle. A fight broke out involving Leonard Wee and an opposing SAS player. It left Leonard Wee with a bloodied mouth and nose.

I am sure that all of you will think that the SAS player is in the wrong for hitting Leonard and that he should be punish. I also thought that way too when I first read about it. You might think that the reason why the SAS player hit Leonard is because they lost the match by only a point and cannot swallow his pride and wanted to take revenge and thus hit Leonard. However, that might not be the case if you know the full story.

According to some of my friends from ACSI, it was Leonard who first provoked the SAS player in the first place. He called the SAS player a loser. If I am not wrong this is what Leonard said, “ Loser! Go back to ITE”. From what I have heard, the SAS player was formerly from SAS but went to ITE. And SAS called the player back to play for their school. What the ACSI said was really insulting. If I were the SAS player I would also not be able to take the insult and punch him in the face. You might notice how I emphasize that all this information was from my friend and might not be true. So it is your choice to choose which one to believe in. Whether Leonard provoked the SAS player or the SAS player punched Leonard because he cannot accept the defeat. Whatever the case, I want to point out that both Leonard and SAS lacked sportsmanship.

After the game, the SAS player should try to accept the defeat no matter how hard it is and admit that both sides fought hard and tried their best. The SAS player should at the end shake hand with the opposing team and congratulate them on their achievement. While Leonard upon winning the game should not agitate the losing team even more but instead encourage the losing team that they have to try harder next year and meet in the finals again. After the match both team should shake hands with each other to show that both teams had a wonderful game with each other and it is an honour to be part of this thrilling match. This should have been the case for this rugby match so that none of the fighting would began in the first place and of course this also applies to other sports as well. This is what sports is all about to make new friends and of course to work hard and strive for excellence and not all about winning and fighting(except for sports like judo, wrestling ,etc).

Violence will not solve problems but instead creates more. So if one insult you, you should not resort to violence but instead tell it to the teacher or coach, etc to solve the problem diplomatically. Once a fight starts more will follow and it is hard to stop it, similar to the case for both World Wars. Therefore, we have to be more friendly towards each other and try not to agitate the person purposely to prevent such incident from happening.

Hence, I conclude that in sports, having sportsmanship and discipline are important and these traits are what make athletes special, different from those who don’t take up sports. Let play our part and not tarnish the image of sports.