To JWW Darby with love

Steve Darby or his real name Stephen David Darby has to thank his lucky stars that he is currently living in the 20th century. If the year is 1875, he might have been stoned or chopped to death by angry Perakians just like his fellow Englishman, the late JWW Birch. Poor old Birch, I don’t think he had the opportunity to try out Perak’s famous delicacy known as ‘tempoyak’ before his death. Poor bloke!

Steve Darby old chap… You ought to know that Perakians cannot tolerate arrogance and conceit coming especially from foreigners no matter how fair their skin color may look like. Perakians nowadays are much more civilized of course but that doesn’t mean that outsiders can look down and step all over them.

Perak FA seems to adore and worship Steve Darby like he is some kind of a talismanic hero. Well, if Perak FA wants to keep Steve Darby for the rest of the Malaysian football (should be soccer) season, they must send the old chap to some cross-cultural training schools. Get him to know and understand the many facets of our Malay and Perakian customs and culture.

Just send him to Pasir Salak and let our folks there ‘entertain’ him. They will make sure that he will not walk alone. :-)

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