ARFC finally suffers 1st defeat in 2009

Playing its 2nd match in less than 48 hours, a very fatigue ARFC fell 3-4 to a very youthful MOE team at the superb artificial pitch at Victoria SS. Witnessing ARFC’s 1st loss in 2009 were the usual 77,777 fans as well as Caren, gorgeous wife of Sebastian, and Su and Afiqa, babelicious wife and lagi-babelicious daughter of Haron.


ARFC started with this line-up:

Keeper: Dependable Jinzhong
Right-back: Marauding Boon
Sweeper: Uncompromising Edwin
Stopper: Towering Toh
Left-back: Hardworking Tong
Right-mid: Hard-running Guoxiong
Centre-mid: Dynamic Soon
Centre-mid: Influential Sebastian
Left-mid: Speedy Hee
Striker: Unpredictable Blackburn
Striker: Powerful Alvin

Subs are:

Mean-machine Hock (late – Captain)
Astute-reading sweeper Elvis
Hardman Tjioe
ARFC scoring legend Haron


Within 17 mins, ARFC gifted 2 goals to the opponents. 0-2.

ARFC then woke up and grabbed a goal back. Edwin chipped in a free-kick from our half and the ball was flicked on by Blackburn onto the path of on-rushing Soon. Not surprisingly, Soon dispatched the ball past their keeper for his 15th ARFC goal. 1-2

Just mins later, ARFC conceded 2 more goals though the 4th goal looked suspiciously of-side. 1-4.

Sebastian then atoned for his mistake in the first goal conceded when he picked up the ball about 37 metres away from goal. Looking up, he hit a rising shot that took a slight deflection off their defender’s leg and the ball sailed over their rooted keeper. This was Sebastian’s 66th ARFC goal. 2-4 which remained the half-time score.

In the 2nd half, ARFC played so much better as it started playing its usual standard of football. With such football, ARFC would get its 3rd goal in the match. Hock won possession on the right and sent a measured high ball over their defence and Soon sprinted in. Without breaking his stride, Soon calmly volleyed the ball with his left foot over their static keeper who had came rushing out for his 16th ARFC goal. 3-4.

Toh nearly scored ARFC’s 4th goal after Sebastian’s corner fell to his feet. However, his close-range shot was superbly blocked by their keeper. Unlucky!!

Despite subjecting the opponents to more intense pressure, ARFC could not get an equalising goal and hence suffered its 1st defeat in 2009.

For this match, Man-of-the-Match goes to Soon though Tong, Guoxiong, Elvis and Hock did well too.