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  Youthful Sporting Doctor Mukhtiar Sidhu was invited by the Seletar Young Indians Football Club to join the Club around 1952, as its’  Sports Secretary as it needed an English educated member to handle correspondence and liaison.   Dr Mukhtiar recalls: The Club was affiliated to the Singapore Football Association and took part in the SFA Division League. Hence, for the first few years I handled all the ground work, mainly administrative and coordination with (SFA) that was located in Sports House in Farrer Park. Front Row from L: 1Palani (RIP); 4Vinayagam (RIP); 5 Dr Sidhu  6 Chandrasekaran; 7 Suppiah G;     9 Sasidharan (in Perth).  2nd. Row from L   3 Jayaram; 5 Velayadan;  6 Sankran   I also conducted internal meetings in Tamil!  as I was fluent in Tamil having picked up the language from childhood friends. The football practice sessions were held in a field near Hot Water Springs, kindly leased to us by Frazer and Neave for a token sum of $2 a year! before F&N built

  Imagine your first job which is also your last!   That was what many of our parents experienced when they were employed at the Naval Base ' On Her Majesty’s Service'(OHMS) . Their terms of employment were modest and were primarily based on the ‘British Old School Theory,’ where employees enjoyed stability and the Admiralty earned loyalty and other vital conditions necessary for a successful naval organisation. Rank and File The British were generally employee-friendly and rarely pulled rank. Their philosophy of promoting staff from the rank and file was the meritorious route to success which some organisations are reportedly considering returning to. Thus, the past always lends itself to the present. Playing Field In addition to hiring staff, based on technical and academic qualifications, they were also aware that sports instilled qualities that can benefit organisations. Hence, sportsmen and women were selected for positions within the organisation. Heads of Dep