ARFC slammed 6 past hapless opponent

In a home-coming match at ARFC’s old homeground at Blk 367 Yishun Ring Road, ARFC slammed 6 past a hapless Raven in front of 77,777 fanatical fans.

ARFC suffered a major set-back prior to the match when it was revealed that astute-reading sweeper Elvis could not make it to the match due to urgent personal commitment. However, sources disclosed that he was seen dancing merrily and drinking heartily with a huge group of bikini-clad babes at “Dragonfly” way into the wee hours of the day.

Luckily, hard-man Tjioe unexpectedly turned up after his 1-week stint at Mumbai FC sponsored by ARFC. Mean machine Hock also announced his availability. Hence, ARFC, for the second week in a row, did not have to depend any guest players and in fact, could even afford to loan unpredictable Blackburn to the opponent for the match.

ARFC started with dependable Jinzhong in goal, Towering Toh took over the sweeper’s role with determined Huiming as stopper and flanking the defence was hard-working Tong and left-foot wizard Bernard. Sublime Khim returned to left midfield and entrepreneur Guoxiong on the opposite flank. Sebastiano and hard-man Tjioe were at the centre. The forward line was led by ARFC scoring legend Haron and Speedy Hee. Last week’s hat-trick hero, powerful Alvin, was unexpectedly left on the bench together with reliable David Mak (father of Marco Mak) and mean-machine Hock were the subs.

When the referee blew the starting whistle, ARFC took a while to settle and was rattled by couple of attacks by Raven. Of course, ARFC’s experience proved invaluable and warded off these attacks and starting imposing itself on the match.

In the 17th min, a quick attack down the left flank resulted in the opponent clearing the ball out to the centre of the pitch about 37 metres out. The loose ball was pickedf up by Sebastiano who looked up and chipped in a swerving ball that completely fooled the keeper ala Matthew-Le-Tissier style. 1-0 and this was Sebastiano’s 45th goal for ARFC, putting him level with WO Neo in the all-time ARFC goal-scoring chart.

7 minutes later, powerful Alvin, who replaced Speedy Hee minutes earlier, put ARFC 2-0 up. Picking up the ball on the left flank, he eluded 2 defenders and all almost 7 seconds to take aim. Ignoring the free ARFC scoring legend Haron in the 6-yard box, powerful Alvin squeezed the ball from a very acute angle. This was his 21st goal for ARFC.

Before half-time ended, mean-machine Hock missed 2 glit-edged chances and Speedy Hee also squandered couple opportunities. When the referee blew for half-time whistle, ARFC was greeted by loud chorus of chanting by the fans as they totally outplayed the opponent.


When second half resumed, ARFC continued their relentless attack. The half was barely 7 minutes old when powerful Alvin put the result beyond doubt. Not surprisingly and expectedly, the architect of the goal was who else but sublime Khim. Breaking up their attack on our right flank, sublime Khim looked up and spotted powerful Alvin making a fantastic run down their left flank. His ball found powerful Alvin who took the ball right up to the box and steered into the goal. 3-0!!

In the 57th min, a superb pressure by several ARFC warriors on their sweeper in the centre of the pitch resulted in sublime Khim nicking the ball away from him. Embarking on a 70-metres run, sublime Khim crossed for the lurking Speedy Hee who in turn returned the ball to him. With the crowd rising to their feet expecting a goal, sublime Khim easily and cleverly slotted the ball home for his 21st ARFC goal. 4-0 !!

By now, Raven was totally deflated. Powerful Alvin completed his second hat-trick in as many games when he out-muscled the hapless defender to powered in the ball for his 23rd ARFC goal. 5-0!!

7 minutes later, left-foot wizard Bernard had the perfect opportunity to open his ARFC goal-scoring account. Unfortunately, his rather-weak shot, after taking aim for yet another 7 seconds, was easily smothered by the impressive keeper. Unlucky!!

In the 77th min, trust who else but ARFC goal-scoring legend Haron to complete the scoring. Hard-working Tong sent in a perfect cross from the right to Haron who brought the ball down with a perfect first touch and calmly shot home for his 103rd goals for ARFC.

Addressing the packed-o-the-seams room of reporters and babes from St.James Power House, powerful Alvin was clearly over the moon with his hat-trick in successive games: “I just want to thank all the superb ARFC warriors for giving me such strong support and chances. I hope that with my performances over the past 2 weeks, I can be guaranteed a starting role in ARFC or else I might consider a move to Gombak Utd in the S-League, though my heart and soul will always be with ARFC.”

Once again, the central defence of Towering Toh and determined Huiming had a blinding game by keeping out all attacks. Entrepreneur Guoxiong, hard-working Tong and mean-machine Hock provided much-needed speed, running and stability on the right flank, while left-foot wizard Bernard, reliable David Mak (father of Marco Mak) and sublime Khim were unbeatable on the left flank. Hard-man Tjioe provided the steel at the centre with the forward line linking up very well. Goalkeeper dependable Jinzhong had almost a very free match.