Why are we so sad and why did i cry?

I am Leon Tay from Maris Stella High School. What happened on 2 April 2009 really make my teammates and i felt very sad.

As some of my teammates have told you all what had happened on that day, i would not talk about it. I would tell you all how we feel and why we are so angry. As a player of Maris Stella High School i felt very disappointed as we have trained hard and played and fought hard in every competition. Even if we tried our best and we are not qualified into the Top 8, i would know that we have to train harder and try again next year. But now this is not the situation. We all tried our very best and by right we should have won the match against Anglican High School which would qualify us into Top 8. But never did we know that the umpire would say that the last shot was out, when the shuttle was about 20CM away from the singles line. We were very angry that day as the shot was clearly IN and even the linesman show the sign that the ball was IN. The umpire did not say that the ball was out thus this shows that he agreed with the linesman. When we were walking back to collect our bags, the Anglican players suddenly cheered loudly and we were all very surprised. After that, the umpire walked to us and announce to us that the shot was out and he also said that we have lost the match. We were all shocked. But what he did was wrong as he should have announce to both the schools when he was still sitting on his Umpire's chair.

Now, we are furious as the umpire is supposed to maintain a FAIR game but what he did was totally UNFAIR... The linesman came to prove that the shot was IN, however a lady at the announce table told him to get lost. WHAT THE HELL is this?? WHAT IS LINESMAN FOR?? LINESMAN are to judge if every shot is IN or OUT. Now when the linesman stand forward to prove that the shot was clearly IN, he wasn't even given a chance to speak. But now, they ask the linesman to get lost!!! WHAT IS THIS?? Now, the umpire gave just a reason that he was sitting closest to the shuttle that landed so he judged that the shot was OUT. But since he was the closest, he would have seen the clearest that it was IN. How could he gave such a reason??There were also many other players from both our school and SJI who had seen that shot was an in.

I always thought that sport teaches us to be a FAIR, RESPONSIBLE and SPORTSMANSHIP. But now, the umpire are showing us the wrong way(DISHONESTY).

I think that the VICTORY should seriously goes to US. I hope that something would be done about this.

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