Your a welcome member on the board Mackem. You take an interest in the game, your learning the Thai game - we all started somewhere. I have time for you mainly because you haven't posted a message and then run only to re-appear next year.

It does seem apparent to myself that our friends that have discontent on this board are all based or holidaying in Pattaya at the time. They come, they give us a mouthful and then they go.

The guys on this forum know the thai game very well, probably much better than the people who actually run the game. Personally I think I've done more for Thai football than most Thai's would ever do. The only thing your lacking Mackem, is that blog behind your fave team!! 2011 would be a good season to start - so get behind a team no ones discovered yet!!

I've only taken an interest in the league for the last 2 month, so I haven't qualified for my badge yet.

I know sod all, so my comments should be ignored. Thank you

On the game itself - a pretty entertaining game, considering the state of the pitch (I've seen sheep paddocks in beter nick). Customs scored early in the second half, as much as Khon Kaen huffed and puffed, they didn't really threaten until the last few minutes. Their efforts were also disrupted by the shameless and persistent time-wasting by Customs. They finally scored in the last minute, only to have the goal disallowed by the linesman's flag. At the final whistle, the officials were surrounded by Khon Kaen players and had to be escorted off by police. A few KK fans left the stands to have a go at them too, which inevitably led to a brief scuffle between rival fans. However, this was quickly broken up by the KK fans themselves, the majority of whom seemed to recognise that the problem lay not with the opposition, or their fans, but the officials.

An interesting part of the day was on seeing about 20-30 fans watching the game in shirts of other teams. Before the match I saw at least a dozen ( remember this is a small ground) folks in Thai Port shirts. One of these was in our stand, but the majority were with the home fans). Also in our section were about 6 or 7 Chiang Rai Utd fans, completed with orange wigs, plus a couple of fans in Samut Prakarn shirts. I've nothing against these folks coming to the game, but it just seemed odd that they came in other Thai league shirts. (Perhaps this caught my attention more because of a debate last season on the Wellington Phoenix forum about wearing Liverpool shirts at the home end for a match against Robbie Fowler's side).