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In search of fields for the love of the game

I was a boy filled with a passion for football – and a mission to find space to play

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From the 1980s to 2000s, the HDB blocks of Margaret Drive were torn down and many schools in the area were demolished.

From the 1980s to 2000s, the HDB blocks of Margaret Drive were torn down and many schools in the area were demolished.

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Yeo Hock Yew

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When I was a young boy, I was just mad about football. This was in the 1960s, when my family lived in a Housing Board flat at the junction of Strathmore Avenue and Commonwealth Avenue.

The recent World Cup tournament and the sad

passing of Brazilian legend Pele

made me think again of the times football meant so much to us. How we young boys saw an empty space as an opportunity where we can meet and kick a ball around. We were always on the lookout for space to play.

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