If you are a keen football fan you might have realized the poor performance the club has experienced; perhaps the worst performance ever in the 20 years it has been competing in the BPL. Due to the poor finish they displayed in the BPL table, Arsenal has gone the extra mile to re-organize its house by signing up Team Sky lawyer Huss Fahmy.

If you’re not well acquainted, Fahmy has been in the Sky organization for almost a decade now. Since his arrival from Herbert Smith in 2010, he has been in the inner circles of Sky Movies and Sky Sports platforms, and has even had his fair share in handling legal and commercial work for Team Sky. Besides this, he has also been the director of the business and commercial affairs for the cycling team, which has one of the world’s foremost members and all-time Tour de France winner, Chris Froome.

Now that he’s at Arsenal, Fahmy will take a position as the club’s in-house lawyer and is expected to handle player contracts alongside general counsel Svenja Geissmar, who was the first-ever in-house lawyer to join the club back in 2009. The strategy behind the sign up, is to bring in new talented signings to the club, all the while making sure the big players already in the club stay put, with the hope of returning Arsenal to its former glory.

After what the latest performance has shown, there has been pressure rising from within to bring in fresh talent. As far as the players already in the club are concerned, Arsenal FC is expecting to come up with new ways to keep them in the club, given that most of them have their contracts expiring in a matter of months, with the likes of Alexis Sanchez, Marquee, Mesut Ozil, and others. With Fahmy now on board, such issues and the legal aspects behind these contracts, and the new ones to come, Arsenal is confident that it will be in a better position to get things moving again.

After all, Arsenal FC isn’t new to the legal stream; the club has worked with law firms like Bird, Slaughter and May for years, and have regularly chipped in when it came to delicate and the most intricate of decisions concerning the club and its players. For example, it’s Slaughter and May who have regularly tried to galvanize the transfer of Ozil, the 42m signing from Real Madrid, in 2013. Also, Bird handled the kit provider deal with Puma back in the year 2014. Time will tell how this new sign up will affect the club’s interests.

That’s what happened recently with Lions on Southeast Asian Football (SEA) draw in Kuala Lumpur.

Lions were assigned to Group A along with Myanmar, Laos, Brunei and the home team, Malaysia. If they get to survive this round, they’ll have to face the most fearsome teams in whole Asia.

A good performance in this tournament would be a great relief for the team chaired by Lim Kia Tong, who currently ranks 169th in the world ranking, its worst ever.

This will be the test of fire that will define whether the under-23 players of the national team deserve a place among the world’s great football players, or will be doomed to play the rest of their lives in a small local team.

WHEN NUMBERS SAY THE OTHER

Former Singapore captain Nazri Nasir said Group A is pretty fair and everyone has the same chances to qualify for the next round. Everything will depend on the individual and group performance of each team.

Other important figures, such as Terry Pathmanathan, Razali Saad, Jita Singh, Vincent Subramaniam and Seak Poh Leong, have similar opinions in which they claim that Singapore’s team has a high probability to qualify for the quarter-finals.

However, Tampines Rovers Rafi Ali, doesn’t see things as easy, because he thinks Malaysia and Myanmar will make things quite difficult for Lions.

DEATH GROUP

Tournament’s Group C is clearly the Death Group. It is clear that both teams qualifying from there will have more possibilities than others to win the tournament. It would be lucky for the Lions, not to cross any of these teams in their path, if they dream on being champions.

However, such figures as Lau Kok Keng, John Fernandez, Lim Chin and Augustine Orlando, are hopeful that Singapore’s good luck will continue until the end of the tournament.

A MATTER OF LUCK

Several stars and soccer businessmen consider that luck has always been in favor of Lions. Lawyer Alfred Dodwell was more direct on his statements, suggesting to Lions, if they didn’t survive Group A, to do something else.

They all share the same view: Malaysia and Myanmar can make things pretty difficult.

HEAT OF COMPETITION

The worst thing Lions could do right now is thinking they’re superior to their rivals. These days, no team in Asia is weak enough to be underestimated; the international football scene is another.

However, sports experts don’t see a better future for Singapore than a third place in Group A. In their opinions, everyone agrees on the same thing: Singapore players’ stage fright is their worst enemy.

Three Shellharbour Junior Football Club groups will be in real life at Myimbarr attempting to advance to the last of the yearly State Cup junior competition. They are a piece of 10 Football South Coast junior outfits who have advanced to the last four of the far reaching competition. Semi-finals are likewise played in three different settings.

The activity commences at 9am on Sunday when Shellharbour U12 young men play Woonona Junior FC for a spot in the excellent last of the Frank Broughton Cup. Shellharbours U13 young men will then play Connells Point Rovers FC at 10.15am, with Shellharbour White U16 young ladies doing combating Leichhardt Saints FC at 11.30am.

Shellharbour, who facilitated two rounds of this years State Cup, has delighted in a considerable lot of accomplishment in this opposition throughout the years.

The club won titles with its young men under 13s out of 2011 and 2015, the young ladies under 14s out of 2013 and young ladies under 16s out of 2014. Sunday denotes the begin of an extremely bustling period for Shellharbour Junior Football Club (SJFC).

Straight after the State Cup semi-finals, five Shellharbour groups will go to Canberra on Sunday evening to contend at the Kanga Cup.

In 2016 three of the seven Shellharbour groups taking an interest achieved the fabulous finals in the biggest worldwide youth football competition in the Southern Hemisphere. More than 375 groups speaking to 5500 players from Australia and abroad participated in the Kanga Cup a year ago.

This year five SJFC groups, U9s, U12s, U13s, U13 young ladies and U16 young ladies, will go up against groups from South Korea, New Zealand, Brisbane and other local ranges and states around Australia amid the week-long rivalry.

This is an extraordinary occasion where groups have a great time, appreciate football and experience an occasion with global contenders.

– SJFC president Yani Sekuloski. Shellharbour Junior Football Club has partaken in this occasion in the course of recent years, and this year our club is pleased to be speaking to our city once more, club president Yani Sekuloski said.

The week-long occasion will give some incredible rivalry to our groups. Most days one to two diversions are played from Monday through to the Thursday before the finals are hung on Friday. This is an extraordinary occasion where groups have some good times, appreciate football and experience an occasion with universal contenders.