It appears that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, like most Malaysians, had grown pessimistic about the quality of Malaysian soccer, which has been on the decline over the years.

najib 100 day bash 110709 najib 02 This is why he registered surprised over the local team's narrow 2-3 defeat to Manchester United in a friendly match in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.

"We lost 2-3?. I thought we lost 0-6," he said in jest when asked to comment on the match result at a press conference after he had an audience with King Abdullah Abdulaziz Al Saud, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, in Jeddah.

According to Bernama , when told that he had to miss watching his favourite team MU in action back home, Najib said: "This (the audience with King Abdullah) is more important."

Najib is on the final day of a four-day visit to Saudi Arabia.

Manchester United played a Malaysian selection yesterday on the first stopover of their Asian tour which will also take them to South Korea and China.

They will play another match with a Malaysian selection tomorrow after their friendly with an Indonesian selection in Jakarta tomorrow was cancelled following bomb blasts at two Indonesian hotels on Friday.

Cops raid gay club

In an unrelated development, Bernama reported that police raided a gay club in Jalan Yap Kwan Seng, Kuala Lumpur, early today and detained 32 people.

The 28 men and four women aged 20-50 were picked up after they tested positive for syabu or methamphetamine.

Kuala Lumpur narcotic police investigating officer ASP Mohd Ashril Md Johar said the premise was packed with about 500 patrons, mostly men dancing in an erotic manner.

The police raid at 1.30am also found the drug Eramin 5 strewn all over the floor, believed to have been disposed by patrons of the club which began operation last year.

Mohd Ashril said there were about 500 men and 34 women at the club. The raid was made after police monitored the premise for one week.

The 32 people were detained under Section 15(1)(a) Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 which carries a three years jail sentence and a fine of RM5,000.

In another raid on an entertainment joint in Jalan Changkat Imbi, police detained 13 Chinese women working as guest relations officers (GRO) and 11 customers.

Police found several rooms on the second floor of the four storey building believed used to provide sex service and VIP rooms for special patrons.

The Chinese women were handed over to the Immigration Department while the men were detained for further investigation.