someone needs to come up with an Azkals cheer I can capslock everywhere.

1. A football stadium will always sound like a football stadium, anywhere, no matter what the language is, but a football stadium in the Philippines sounds exactly like a football stadium in the Philippines. I love our crowd.

2. That statement above actually applies to everything about the football stadium. The advertisements were for KFC, McDonalds, Clear, and Rexona for men, in contrast to Fly Emirates. There was a gutter along the outer side of the pitch. I mean.

3. Look, I am comparatively happy about the result, or at any rate okay with the result, but if someone makes a comment about the Philippine national team not being Filipino I am going to eat them whole. I'm not sure what gives you the right to determine who's Filipino enough to play for the team. If football is still mostly the domain of those with foreign-sounding surnames then maybe that's a statement on the game's popularity in the country, not on the players.

4. WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT GOAL, MR. CALIGDONG. LOOK. LOOK AT THAT GOAL. OH MY GULAY. LOOK, YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU LIKE IN YOUR GOAL CELEBRATIONS, OKAY, BECAUSE WHAT WAS THAT GOAL.

(I'll replace the video with a proper video once I find one, but literal screencaps will have to do for now.)

5. Stating the obvious here, but: football players are people. They can have things like off days, and they can do things like improve. And things like games that start and stop and start ad nauseam can't possibly help their performances.

So it's a 2-0 win for the Philippine national team against ten-man Mongolia. Well. Here's to you, guys. May you keep on getting better, may you always have audiences that treat you like movie stars, and may you never blow four-goal leads. Say whatever you like about the cliches regarding football bringing people together, chances are I've agreed with you, but sometimes cliches write themselves. And work. Up Azkals.

someone needs to come up with an Azkals cheer I can capslock everywhere.

1. A football stadium will always sound like a football stadium, anywhere, no matter what the language is, but a football stadium in the Philippines sounds exactly like a football stadium in the Philippines. I love our crowd.

2. That statement above actually applies to everything about the football stadium. The advertisements were for KFC, McDonalds, Clear, and Rexona for men, in contrast to Fly Emirates. There was a gutter along the outer side of the pitch. I mean.

3. Look, I am comparatively happy about the result, or at any rate okay with the result, but if someone makes a comment about the Philippine national team not being Filipino I am going to eat them whole. I'm not sure what gives you the right to determine who's Filipino enough to play for the team. If football is still mostly the domain of those with foreign-sounding surnames then maybe that's a statement on the game's popularity in the country, not on the players.

4. WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT GOAL, MR. CALIGDONG. LOOK. LOOK AT THAT GOAL. OH MY GULAY. LOOK, YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU LIKE IN YOUR GOAL CELEBRATIONS, OKAY, BECAUSE WHAT WAS THAT GOAL.

(I'll replace the video with a proper video once I find one, but literal screencaps will have to do for now.)

5. Stating the obvious here, but: football players are people. They can have things like off days, and they can do things like improve. And things like games that start and stop and start ad nauseam can't possibly help their performances.

So it's a 2-0 win for the Philippine national team against ten-man Mongolia. Well. Here's to you, guys. May you keep on getting better, may you always have audiences that treat you like movie stars, and may you never blow four-goal leads. Say whatever you like about the cliches regarding football bringing people together, chances are I've agreed with you, but sometimes cliches write themselves. And work. Up Azkals.