It wasn’t that long ago that Singapore were top dogs in Southeast Asia, the football-loving part of the continent that is home to 650 million and has India to the west and China to the east. The Lions won the AFF Championship, the region’s biennial tournament, three times between 2004 and 2012, but they have failed to reach a final in the four editions since, getting out of their group just once.
To make matters worse, their main
