Subjectively Singaporean

Recently, there has been concerns about safety in school sports following a brawl in between SAS and ACSI following a B div rugby match between SAS and ACSI.

Personally i feel that there is no much of a problem in school sports safety and discipline as i felt that it is quite ok already, however its inevitable that there are brawls here and there.

This april, I participated in the national squash championships. The situation was tense but in the end, the opponents shook hands for one another and even did a cheer for one another. I think that these issues all boils down to the tradition of the sport, and the rivalry between the two schools.

Lets us look at the SAS and ACSI rugby brawl. Between the two schools, they have won the last 15 b division titles, this explains the great rivalry between this two schools in this sport, as they feel the pressure mounting on them to win the coveted trophy for their school. This can cause more aggressiveness and major upset when one loses the final. In the case of SAS, having lost the final, they felt frustrated and upset. This was the major reason for the brawl.

You would also have to look at the nature of the sport. For example, contact sports with great aggressiveness would result in a more likely hood of a brawl than non contact sports. For example, the incident that happened in a lot of professional football matches after the team loses a final. Non contact sports would not have so much of a fight because of the nature. For example, after china loses the Badminton Cup, they accept it graciously mainly because of their values and the nature of the sport. Badminton is least aggressive than rugby and football.

Thus, teacher-coaches are well needed to provide good values into the sports players so that they would accept their defeat graciously.