Chun Haw equalled Alvin's hat-trick record in opening win in 2013

Playing its first match in 2013, ARFC and Chun Haw continued their scorching form by notching its 3 successive victories and 3^rd successive hat-tricks respectively in as many matches with a hard-fought but thoroughly well-deserved 5-2 win over a typical determined Myanmar nationals team at the very poor Bukit View Sec pitch.

The match was once again witnessed by Tracie (Guoxiong’s beau) who continues to look very pretty in her pregnant state.

Special credit to all who turned up due to the very last-min switch in venue and kick-off time. Also special praise to Derrick who volunteered to be keeper for the entire match

This is the starting line-up:

Keeper - Talisman Derrick

Right-back - Resolute Jasper

Sweeper - Composed Jackson

Stopper - Towering Toh

Left-back - Unbeatable Darren

Left-mid - Skillful Weilit

Centre-mid - Dynamic Soon

Centre-mid - Unpredictable Blackburn (captain)

Right-mid - Marauding Guoxiong

Striker - Powerful Alvin

Striker - Talented Chun Haw

Subs:

Combative Ron

Influential Sebastian

Hard-man Tjioe

Speedy Hee

 Absent:

Impeccable How Meng

Astute-reading sweeper Elvis

ARFC Scoring Legend Haron

Sublime Khim

Dependable Jinzhong

Wonder Wayne  

Steely Tze Ern

Mean-machine Hock

Long-throw specialist Norman

Precocious En Dian

Nippy Kenny

Things started on a bad note just 377 seconds into the match when Chun Haw took a nasty kick at his shin and had to leave the field for treatment and Hee came into replace him and immediately created ARFC’s first goal.

Darren and Alvin combined brilliantly at the left flank which saw Darren swinging in a long looping ball from the left to the far post. Hee was right on cue and headed the ball back across goal and Blackburn demonstrated that he might have lost the pace but certainly not the quick thinking. Before the ball reached their defender from Hee’s knock-down, Blackburn nipped the ball away, swiveled and stroked the ball home for his 121^st ARFC goal. 1-0

ARFC then conceded a goal. 1-1

Sebastian, Tjioe and Ron then came on for Soon, Blackburn and Alvin respectively.

Tjioe turned back the clock and brought every warrior and fan back to the ITE AMK era when he was a box-to-box all-action midfielder. In quick succession, Tjioe picked up 3 successive loose balls from outside their penalty area and fired in shots that flew just wide.

Sebastian also tried to lob their keeper on 3 occasions but to no avail.

In the second half, ARFC soon fell behind. 1-2

Ron and Sebastian then cajoled ARFC into action with their constant “hair-dryer treatment” on the field which soon paid dividends as ARFC equalized again thanks to Hee’s probing run at the left. Hee received the ball, sped away and was crudely fouled. However, the impressive referee waved play on as the ball was picked up by Blackburn. Without delay, Blackburn squared the ball low to Chun Haw, who ignoring Sebastian’s shout to pass to him on the right, turned and placed the ball nicely into the bottom left corner for his 16^th ARFC goal. 2-2

Clearly galvanised by the goal, ARFC duly regain the lead with yet another goal from Chun Haw. In the mirror-image of the earlier goal, Soon was fouled on the right but the referee waved play on. The ball was passed to Chun Haw who despatched the ball home for his 17^th ARFC goal.  3-2

Mins later, ARFC put the result to bed when Blackburn’s right-wing cross sailed over their keeper to nestle nicely at the top left-hand corner. 4-2 and this was Blackburn’s 122^nd ARFC goal.

By now, the opponents were totally deflated and defeated and ARFC planted the final nail in their coffin with a truly great team goal. From the right back position in our half, Jasper passed to Sebastian who was just 2.7 metres ahead. Sebastian returned the pass to Jasper who moved up. Jasper then exchanged wall-passes with Soon who was at the right. Soon then passed to Sebastian who had now moved up to be level with Soon. Soon then moved inward while Jasper continued his run down the right. Soon then exchange wall-passes with Jasper before releasing the ball down the right for Jasper. Jasper marauded forward, looked up and delivered a venomous cross. Alvin took aim but kicked thin air but thankfully Chun Haw was behind Alvin. Trapping the ball, Chun Haw crashed the ball home for his 3^rd consecutive hat-trick in 3 consecutive matches and his 18^th ARFC goal. 5-2

With this goal, Chun Haw also equaled Alvin’s record of scoring 3 hat-tricks in 3 successive matches. These are the details:

Alvin:

04 Mar 2007 – ARFC won 9-1

11 Mar 2007 – ARFC won 6-0

08 Apr 2007 – ARFC won 7-2

Chun Haw:

23 Dec 2012 – ARFC won 6-2

30 Dec 2012 – ARFC won 5-1

06 Jan 2013 – ARFC won 5-2

Man-of-the-Match is jointly given to Ron and Toh.