2nd heaviest defeat of ARFC's history

In a match played under extremely hot weather at Admiralty Secondary School, ARFC suffered a crushing 5-1 defeat to Raven.

As Raven turned up with only 9 players, and at the request of Raven’s captain, ARFC lent its 2 most senior players, unpredictable Blackburn and determined Huiming to them. The loan of determined Huiming was to prove ARFC’s own downfall later.

Dependable Jinzhong started in goal, with astute-reading Elvis, Towering Toh, Kiat Gulam and left-foot wizard Bernard as the defence. In the midfield, sublime Khim and entrepreneur Guoxiong were at the flanks, with Sebastiano partnering hardworking Tong in the middle. Up front, ARFC scoring legend Haron and Speedy Hee led the line. Hard-man Tjioe, powerful Alvin and WO Neo were the subs.

ARFC started the match brightly with ARFC scoring legend Haron and Speedy Hee troubling their defence often with their speed and guile. However, ARFC fell behind after its defence stood like wood which allowed their highly-impressive left-winger to slot in their first goal. 0-1 but ARFC continued to stay calm.

In the 17th min, ARFC drew level through influential Sebastiano. A clever exchange between sublime Khim and ARFC scoring legend Haron resulted in the latter laying the ball to influential Sebastiano just outside the penalty box. Taking a touch, influential Sebastiano unleashed a shot that took a slight deflection past their keeper. 1-1 and it was his 46th ARFC goal, thereby lifting him to ARFC’s 4th highest goal-scorer. Immediately after his goal, he asked to be substituted as he was clearly unwell after suffering from whole-night “lao-sai” on Saturday.

In the 27th min, Raven went ahead but a dubious penalty call against left-foot wizard Bernard. Though Dependable Jinzhong got a hand to the ball taken by their penalty-taker, the ball somehow trickled over the line. Agonising!!

Just 7 seconds before half-time, disaster struck when Raven launched a counter-attack and their left-winger sprinted clear of ARFC’s defence to slot the ball past our keeper.


In the second-half, ARFC tried its best at a comeback and was roared on by the ever-faithful 77,777 fans. However, the referee, who was having an extremely poor game, made some disgusting calls against ARFC which infuriated some ARFC warriors.

ARFC then conceded 2 more goals and lost 5-1, its second-heaviest defeat of all time.

Due to the questionable refereeing decisions, Kiat Gulam, one of the ARFC Board of Directors, refused to attend the post-match mortem.