About

Flying Kick is founded by arguably 2 of Malaysia’s self-proclaimed biggest (if not THE biggest) football fans. Blinque and sCa1LyWaG (yes, that’s us!) hatched the idea of having a football blog (a concept that is still rare amongst the rapidly growing blogging culture in Malaysia) back in 2006 but never did get around to making it happen.

Alas, today that idea of ours have materialized, and hopefully in time we will be able to unleash our thoughts and views on the global game to thousands of football fanatics in this football crazy country that we call home.

All material published will be kept as neutral as possible, but as football fans ourselves it is understandable that at times this neutrality can be questioned. At such occasions, please bear in mind that all articles and materials are not meant to intentionally harm any parties and are solely the thoughts and opinions of the authors, and may/may not represent the actual circumstances.

Below are the profiles of the Flying Kick team members, which in the future will be expanded and diversified to provide opinions and points of view from every possible angle of the beautiful game.

Update (12 April 2007) : We’ve added 2 more members to the team, Jonathan and Ivan. Jonathan is a Manchester United fan and Ivan’s an Everton fan. A very rare Everton fan. Welcome!

Update (16 April 2007) : The Flying Kick team just keeps expanding. We’ve added a bit of diversity to the team, Kar Heng being the newest member. Unfortunately, he’s an Arsenal fan.

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Blinque

Real Name : Tuet Tau Kong
Favourite Team (Club) : Tottenham Hotspur
Favourite Team (Nation) : Argentina
Other Favoured Team(s) : Atletico Madrid, AC Milan, Czech Republic, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden
Most Disliked Team(s) : Chelsea, West Ham
Favourite Players (Current) : Dimitar Berbatov, Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Favourite Players (All Time) : Jurgen Klinsmann, Marco Van Basten
Most Disliked Personnel : Sol Campbell (Judas), Frank Lampard, Rio Ferdinand, Ashley Cole (They’re way too overrated!)
Player most likened to (and why) : Hossam Ghaly (Careless, mistake prone, tries to be too clever, terrible, horrible, can’t play football if life depended on it)
Favourite past-time outside of football : Watching paint dry

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sCa1LyWaG

Real Name : Kam Kong Tui
Favourite Team (Club) : Liverpool
Favourite Team (Nation) : Varies according to coach/players/playing style at that point of time
Other Favoured Team(s) : Barcelona, Real Madrid, maybe AS Roma.. actually I just like to watch attacking teams
Most Disliked Team(s) : Chelsea, Manchester United, Everton
Favourite Players (Current) : Liverpool squad, Kaka, Ronaldinho
Favourite Players (All Time) : Zizou, Gary Mac, Paolo di Canio & Stephen Chow
Most Disliked Personnel : The Nevilles
Player most likened to (and why) : De La Pena (no one gets him)
Favourite past-time outside of football : outside football?

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Ivan J

Real Name : Arthur Lukeshire Edwards III
Favourite Team (Club) : Everton FC – The People’s Club
Favourite Team (Nation) : Italy and deep down under there’s a place for Malaysia
Other Favoured Team(s) : Inter Milan, Barcelona, and support local football, Selangor & MyTeam
Most Disliked Team(s) : Liverpool, Bolton, Newcastle
Favourite Players (Current) : Mikel Arteta, Tim Howard, Tim Cahill, and Andy Johnson, Joseph Yobo, Joleon Lescott
Favourite Players (All Time) : Duncan Ferguson, Andrei Kanchelskis
Most Disliked Personnel : Steven Gerrard & El Hadji ‘Spit’ Diouf
Player most likened to (and why) : Big Dunc!! Need no explanation for that.
Favourite past-time outside of football : Something stimulating and involves the opposite sex.

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Jonathan

Real Name : Jonathan ‘Ah Tan’ Tan
Favourite Team (Club) :Manchester United
Favourite Team (Nation) : Argentina (and often find myself supporting England subconsciously)
Other Favoured Team(s) : AC Milan
Most Disliked Team(s) : Chelsea
Favourite Players (Current) :Ryan Giggs, Paolo Maldini, Steven Gerrard, John Terry
Favourite Players (All Time) : Diego Maradona, Marco Van Basten
Most Disliked Personnel : Francesco Totti, Gary Neville, Didier Drogba, Arjen Robben
Player most likened to (and why) : Michael Owen; because he can miss the target from 5 yards out.
Favourite past-time outside of football : Music (guitar & bass); and cybercafe (RTS & FPS)

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Kar Heng

Real Name : Tua Pui Kia aka Padaiyappa
Favourite Team (Club) : Arsenal
Favourite Team (Nation) : Czech Republic
Other Favoured Team(s) : Phillipines, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, because there’s always many goals in the games they’re in…=)…and maybe….Malaysia…..I think….
Most Disliked Team(s) : Brazilian Football Academy, because they took MPSJ away from the public
Favourite Players (Current) : Denilson Neves, Armand Traore, Robin van Persie, Tomas Rosicky, Abou Diaby, William Gallas, Kolo Toure
Favourite Players (All Time) : Dennis Bergkamp, Marc Overmars, Robert Pires, Pavel Nedved, Tony Adams
Most Disliked Personnel : Graham Poll, Ashley Cole (Judas)
Player most likened to (and why) : Never thought about it…how to compare?
Favourite past-time outside of football : Photography