Interested to hear what you thought of Brunei DPMM. Apparently they pay the airfares and maybe accommodation of visiting match day teams and are supposed to be quite crap.
Good game, ended 2–2. DPMM’s goalie (Haimie Nyaring, plays for the Brunei national team) was outstanding and made a lot of saves. Both teams’ strikers played quite well but were defensively not so good. Midfielder Takumi Sasaki scored for Negeri Sembilan and was quite good. Jordan Murray (an Aussie playing for DPMM) played quite well.
While DPMM started out as a college team, it's now royal club and their name stands for
Duli Pengiran Muda Mahkota (Malay for "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince") and is owned by Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah. The Bruneian Royal family is immensely wealthy due to oil and gas reserves (Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah is worth between $28 and $50 billion, lives in the world’s largest palace which features over 7,000 luxury cars worth $5 billion in total (including over 600 Rolls-Royces) and a gold-plated Boeing 747). Therefore I’m not surprised at all that the Royals pay for everything the players have. In Brunei people don’t even pay tax on personal earnings, capital gains, sales or VAT (though businesses pay an 18.5% tax and 8.5% of worker’s salaries goes to the National Retirement Scheme (SRK), which is basically superannuation). The catch is though Brunei is a highly socially conservative Islamic absolute monarchy (meaning no elections) blending sharia law with British colonial common law and Malay culture (under the Malay Islamic Monarchy (MIM) state ideology) to govern public and private life, where being LGBTQ is highly illegal and punishable, and publicly celebrating non-Muslim holidays like Christmas and Easter (e.g. publicly reading or importing the Bible, giving Christmas presents, buying Easter eggs, doing Secret Santa, dressing up festively, singing carols, etc) is illegal.
Interestingly DPMM actually played in Singapore until last year. I find this surprising as Brunei is surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak on Borneo (ironically Sarawak is Malaysia’s only Christian-majority state due to its majority-Indigenous population and the only one where English can take official precedence over the government-privileged Malay language), while Singapore is across the ocean. Brunei and Malaysia are also more culturally, ethnically and linguistically similar, with Malay-speaking Malay Muslims being the dominant ethnic group in both countries.
That may be the craziest story since Southampton signed National League player Aly Dia after he pretended he was George Weah’s cousin and had played for PSG and Senegal despite being a National League flop! 
