It's official: Sports Hub top executives are simply clueless.

Or they have skins as thick as elephants.

When asked by The Straits Times to grade their first six months of operations, chairman of the board of directors at Sports Hub Pte Ltd Mark Woodhams gave a B+, saying that the grade "is a realistic mark".

Chief executive Philippe Colin-Delavaud went one up, humbly bestowing a shiny A-. His reasons? The hub hosted premier sporting events and won several architectural awards.

You can go ahead and re-read the last two paragraphs again.

If it can score a B+ and A- with a sandy pitch and a leaky roof, imagine the actual grade the $1.33 billion masterpiece can attain if Neymar's shot glided across the glistening, pristine pitch into the back of the net rather than bouncing up and down uncontrollably on the sandy pitch and Jay Chou's fan waved placards instead of umbrellas. The sky's the limit - really.

Instead, we have to settle for an embarrassing A- and a realistic B+.

To add on to a confusing story littered with an inflated sense of reality that got Jay Chou fans reaching out angrily to their umbrellas once again, chief operating officer Oon Jin Teik said:

"This is only the start of a 25-year project. In six months, you cannot expect a small city, which is what we are, to be in perfect shape."

Singaporeans are pretty good with grades and when we see an A- in our report book, it is as perfect as it gets. Unless, you are gunning to be the poster kid of chicken essence.

Even the reporter who interviewed the head honchos disagreed with all the congratulatory pats on the back, rating the Sports Hub a C+ (now that's realistic) in a commentary on the same page as the bewildering news story.

"The first rule of sport is humility. Sports Hub's senior management have perhaps forgotten it by grading its current state at an A- or B+," he said.

Well played, ST. Well played.

Top photo from here. 

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