Flashback on our leading goal-scorers....

Dear ARFC warriors and friends,

In our illustrious 21-year history, I must say that ARFC has been and is always been blessed with fantastic strikers. Very similar to the best team in the world - Liverpool FC.

We started with David (Peter Beardsley) and Robin Giam (Ian Rush) as our twin-terrors. Of course, David subsequently became our reliable left back and then "retired". After Robin "retired", his 69 goals would seem to never be shattered.

Of course, we were fortunate to recruit Haron (Robbie Fowler) just when Robin had "retired". Immediately, Haron made a huge impact with his killer instinct and class, and netted an incredible 4 goals in a 6-1 win on 08 Oct 2000 at ITE AMK in his debut match.  Soon after, his many goals propelled ARFC to many many victories and often rescued ARFC from seemingly-defeats. Not surprisingly, Haron is the first ARFC warrior to chalk out 100 goals and 150 goals!  He is now on 178 goals.

In between, Hee emerged as Michael Owen with his speed and always at the right place and time to score. That is why he is on 84 goals.

Of course, we should not forget Blackburn (who played like Steven Gerrard when of course Blackburn was younger) who became the 3rd ARFC warrior to reach the 100-goal mark and is now on 115 goals.

Then, we have captain Sebastian (Jamie Redknapp/Xabi Alonso) who, though operated from mdifield and a set-piece specialist, remained 5th on the goal-scorer list with 82 goals.


This leaves me to Alvin (Fernando Torres), our newly-minted leading scorer for ARFC with 179 goals. We were looking for the right partner for Haron and Alvin was recruited. Though Alvin is already a proven goal-scorer during his Kampong Boys days, he failed to get on the score-sheet even with very clear-cut chances in his initial matches for ARFC. We were thinking - maybe Alvin could not cope with huge expectations of playing for a bigger team like ARFC? (hahahahaha)  

But once he opened his account on 16 Jan 2005 in a 5-0 win at Blk 440 Yishun field (the one with a huge slope in the middle), there is no holding back for him and he went on to plunder so many goals and together with Haron, both of them were really twin-terrors. Playing like Fernando Torres, Alvin often used his muscular strength and by-now trade-mark runs down the left flank to score many goals. With Haron slowing down and nursing injuries, Alvin finally did the unthinkable by over-taking Haron!

My wish is for both of them to continue scoring goals for fun and for both to reach the magical 200-goal mark together!

Cheers....

Sebastian.