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As published in Malay Mail today By Haresh Deol 
 haresh@mmail.com.my KUALA LUMPUR — Striker Safee Sali has been gunned down by a gun and live bullets find in his pickup truck.   He told Johor Baru police he had sent his vehicle to a workshop to fix some accessories. A man driving his green Ford Ranger has been arrested.   Fresh from winning the FA Cup final, the Johor Darul Ta’zim footballer and his teammates were on their way to Johor Baru yesterday when he received a phone call that police had found a gun in his pickup truck.   Police had stopped the vehicle, driven by a 4x4 accessories workshop owner, at a roadblock near the Kempas exit at the North-South Expressway at noon yesterday.   They found a Smith & Wesson pistol and 30 live bullets in a yellow bag on the back seat of the vehicle.  “I was in the bus with my teammates in a joyous mood after beating PKNS 2-1 in the final,” Safee said.    “As we left Segam...

From today's NST: Johor Darul Ta'zim was awarded the abandoned FA Cup second round match against T-Team 3-0 by the FA of Malaysia's competitions committee today. The committee rejected T-Team's reason for pulling out of the match at half-time over safety concerns. However, FAM will investigate the alleged punch up at the Larkin Stadium and refer the case to its disciplinary board should any charges arise, said committee chairman Datuk Affendi Hamzah. He said with the decision, Super League club Darul Ta'zim will meet Premier League side Kedah in the FA Cup quarter-finals on F eb 11 and Feb 18 . Meanwhile, the ongoing Larkin Stadium saga took a new twist when a T-Team player claimed that the match should not have been abandoned since the safety of T-Team players was not under any threat as alleged. T-Team player Irfan Abd Ghani ( pic ), 25, claimed that the FA Cup match between T-Team and Jahor Darul Takzim (JDT) should not have b...

UPDATE May 31: Johor FA president Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim is still serving his six months suspension but he made a statement as seen her e. Is the Johor prince in trouble again? ------------ UPDATE (May 30): FAM warn host teams to beef up security at stadium. The competition committee fined Pahang FA RM100,000 while Darul Takzim FC fined RM20,000 over Kuantan episode. Read more here . --------- So says former Mailsport journo Rizal Hashim. One thing for sure, there was certainly an 'overprint' of tickets - something even FA of Malaysia (FAM) vice president cum competitions committee chairman Hamidin Amin suspected as revealed to Mailsport (as published today). The whole fiasco happened right in front of FAM president Sultan Ahmad Shah. A meeting is being held at Wisma FAM to discuss about the FA Cup return leg semi final between Pahang and the Southern Tigers after the match was called off yesterday due to crowd trouble. The number of fans in the s...

Kelantan coach Bojan Hodak ( pic ) has furnished Kelantan FA (Kafa) with a report after the east coast team were thrashed 6-1 by Maldives outfit Maziya Sports Club in an AFC Cup match recently. The Croatian had in the report state fatigue as the major factor to the heavy defeat. He also pointed out the team were down with 10-men after Zamri Ramli was give the marching orders. The 'embarrassing' scoreline irked several parties including Kafa president Annuar Musa who demanded for a probe. "It was a combination of several factors. The weather also played a role as we played in the hot afternoon sun. It was our ninth match in 27 days so the players were naturally tired," said Hodak as reported in Mailsport. Kelantan, however, bounced back by defeating T-Team 3-1 in a Super League match before wrapping up their first round campaign in the AFC Cup by beating Myanmar's Ayeyawady United 3-1 yesterday en route to topping Group G. While the Super League title...

...and you'll get a treat from Kelantan coach Bojan Hodak ( pic ). And before the FA of Malaysia (FAM) gets excited and tries to slap Hodak with an Article 88, fret not as he is NOT complaining. As far as Hodak is concerned, being good comes with a price as the Red Warriors are playing in numerous tournaments (Super League, FA Cup and AFC Cup) at one go. Unlike his counterpart in Selangor Irfan Bakti, Hodak insists he is treating all competitions with equal importance. Read the full article in Mailsport . Irfan, meanwhile, has set his sights on the FA Cup. Having wounded the Darul Takzim FC, better known as the Southern Tigers, in the first leg of the FA Cup quarterfinals, Irfan is expecting the southern team to bounce back and he would love the challenge. Read Irfan's take here . HD says: Very difficult to talk these days.