Fandi’s unhappy and his legend career

DAN GUEN CHIN
deputy sports editor
danguenchin@mediacorp.com.sg

Fandi Ahmad, Singapore’s most well-known foot-baller, first sports millionaire, and controversially the best player to put on the national jersey, was the assistant to Singapore national coach Radojko Avramovic from 

2004 to Dec 2006.

He was unhappy with the way FAS (Football Association of Singapore) had done to him. He told Today “The truth is I was ready to continue (the contract) then.” But FAS never show their sincerity; after three months they only gave him excuse like “they could not contact me earlier.” So Fandi had to move on.

Now, he has signed a three-year contract with Johor FA, his new role as technical advisor of second-rank Malaysian Premier League. He joined because the growth of young, inexperienced player makes him feel a great sense of achievement; also it is a challenge to him to keep those young hearts in the fight.

He is facing many difficulties recently: 

his wife, model Wendy Jacobs was 

ill, it gave heavier burden to him, and 

things became worse when her condi-

tion is not covered by insurance; there 

is also the issue of housing since he 

didn't have enough in his CPF savings.

                                                               

Even though he has no business with 

FAS directly now, and people always 

evaluates him more across the Cause-

way than his own country, as a 

Singaporean, he still hold the hope of 

being given chance to take charge of

 a national team. Moreover, he belie-

ves that there are still some talented

 people in FAS to help out now.

Threats of not reading terms and conditions.

A funny story about the consequence of not reading Terms and Conditions:

What is exactly Terms and Conditions?
When I mention about Terms and Conditions, most of people would think about a very long agreement showed everywhere. Actually it plays very important roles in our life in many areas like job contract or warranty of goods. Terms and Conditions(also called T&C or Term of service) are rules and clauses which users must agree abide in order to use a service. Unless in the violation of consumers protections law, these terms are usually legally binding to two parties(organization and users). In other words, the time you agree the terms and clause, you must obey whatever they mentioned in the agreement.


What makes us agree without reading Terms and Conditions?
First of all, the age-group that have frequently contact with these agreements becoming younger nowadays, most of they are not as cautious and patient as the elderly do, when there is a agreement or contract, usually they just click on "agree" instead of spending time on reading that long and tedious terms and conditions. Secondly, people have assumption to think it is unnecessary to read just because that we seldom use or get involved in it, until one day some incident happen then we may regret that we never read it properly.


What is the consequence of not reading Terms of Service?
Since online shopping become a trend among the youth and busy working people, there are always terms and conditions for these products or service. However, a recently research shows that nearly six in ten adults said they would rather read an instruction manual or credit card bill than go through online terms. All the data indicates that people have not realised the importance of terms and conditions, as a result, they might find themselves landed with extra fees or charges, in the worst case, they are involved in a lawsuit that totally unknown. 


Here is a case that shows "Site's terms still enforceable even if users never read them". The user Victoria Major agreed those terms while it is clickwrap (just click "agree" and never read the agreement), under this circumstance she wanted to cease the contract due to poor quality of service, however the company was not willing to do, they was utilizing those terms to sued Major and win the case.


How to avoid these "incidents" happen?
As long as there are terms of service, then we may face those incidents happen while we ignore the importance of those terms. The best way to avoid the bad consequence happen is to make sure you read every agreement that we need to sign, and understand those clauses.


References
Term and conditions:not reading small print can mean a big problem: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/may/11/terms-conditions-small-print-big-problems
Term of service agreements :
http://www.quora.com/Terms-of-Service-Agreements/If-it-is-broadly-accepted-that-terms-of-service-agreements-are-never-read-or-negotiated-and-instead-everybody-simply-presses-Agree-within-seconds-would-a-court-nonetheless-enforce-terms-of-service-agreements