You know an organisation is well and truly in the dumps when a former employee decides to highlight its flaws to the public.

Former Football Association of Singapore (FAS) marketing and communications director Gerard Wong, now Today's Sports Editor, wrote a love note to FAS on Nov. 26 (see above), asking the clueless association the pertinent question: how now?

This after the LionsXII were unceremoniously booted out of the Malaysian League by the Football Association of Malaysia’s executive committee in an unanimous decision yesterday (Nov. 25).

In the 922 words-long love letter, Wong bared his soul as a football fan and spoke of how Singapore football never really reached another high after the crescendo in 1995 when FAS announced the formation of the S-League, which he described as a "GAME CHANGER" (yes, in caps).

He first asked about their feelings because as a former employee, he cares

"After holding a grand and spectacular press conference back in 2011, one that touted the re-entry of Singapore into the Malaysian domestic football competitions as a game-changer for Singapore football, how does it feel to be so unceremoniously booted out of the very same tournaments four years later by the Football Association of Malaysia’s executive committee."

Then he wondered whether the FAS-FAM relationship was one-sided

"Instead, today, we are reeling from the embarrassment of being rejected by the FAM, which you have always claimed to have a wonderful relationship with."

Although the LionsXII won the Malaysian league in 2013 and the Malaysian FA Cup this year, he noticed that interest in the LionsXII was in a downward spiral.

"But over the last two years, the so-so crowds for home matches at the Jalan Besar Stadium - about 4,000, a drop from the height of 6,500-plus crowds of 2012 and 2013 - and the dwindling media space and coverage of the LionsXII, despite having Singapore’s favourite footballing son at the helm and many national players in the squad, are growing signs that interest in the team’s Malaysian escapades is generally dwindling."

He even compared the league and cup wins to the success of Singapore's table tennis team

"It is a bit like that cringing embarrassment one feels when the Singapore table tennis team, filled to the brim with naturalised citizens, win medals on the Olympic stage. As one senior sports official confessed to me recently: 'Even if the table team win again in Rio next year, I don’t care.' I think many local football fans are starting to feel the same about the LionsXII’s Malaysian exploits."

And he questioned why the S-League is treated so unfairly when it's supposed to be "Our S-League"?

"The LionsXII project really drove a nail into the S-League’s coffin, and there is the fear that the soon-to-come Asean Super League will kill it completely. But why is the S-League being treated so shabbily. After all, it wasn’t that long ago when we had key members of the Thai national team playing in our league - including Kiatisuk Senamuang and Tawan Sripan - when our S-League clubs even played in the Asian Champions League (SAFFC in 2009 and 2010) and were Asean Club champions (Tampines Rovers in 2005)."

Heck, he even played the SG50 card

"I also think that our country’s year-long SG50 celebrations have also invoked a new sense of confidence in all of us. So much so that when we look at the S-League - which is also celebrating its 20th anniversary this year - and the LionsXII, we now can’t help questioning the logic of competing in another country’s domestic league for the purpose of developing our own players, instead of having a strong S-League that can provide the same platform."

Your call, FAS

"But it is not too late to reverse this, if our dear powers-that-be at the FAS can just wake up, roll up their sleeves and get down to the hard work of resuscitating the SLeague, pumping in the resources it needs to produce good quality football, and drawing in the fans once again.

Is it going to be tough? Of course it will be.

But think of it this way - if our football administrators can spend the same amount of energy improving the S-League, instead of drawing up plans for the LionsXII and trying to form a new-fangled Asean Super League, maybe our S-League can succeed once again."

Talk about burning bridges. Nevertheless, we thank Wong for bringing to light some of the problems that local football fans have heard of in these dark few years of Singapore football.

In other news, FAS president Zainudin Nordin is clearly not feeling all too good yesterday.