Singapore 2 Lebanon 0.

That scoreline might come back to haunt us. Qualifying for the 2010 World Cup is still a very distant dream.

But to make it happen, we need to punish teams when we can.

I’m not being boastful when I say that we could have easily won this game 6-0.

We were in control. The Lebanese, on the other hand, were content to fall and writhe at the slightest touch.

The ref, bizzarely, recognised that most of this was playacting. And yet he failed to card any of the Lebanese players for simulation.

Instead, our keeper got an undeserved yellow for time-wasting toward the end of the first half.

Dodgy refereeing notwithstanding, we had ample opportunity to cause a different sort of deluge.

Neither came on a cool evening at Kallang.