Hee & Alvin starred in land-slide 7-1 victory

In a friendly match at the Coral secondary school artificial pitch, ARFC was once again let down by the organizer as no referee turned up for the match!

Nevertheless, the match proceeded as usual with great sportsmanship from both teams. ARFC eventually proved too strong for the Myanmarese opponents and whipped them 7-1.

ARFC’s dominating victory was witnessed by Lingzhi (Ron’s lovely wife), Melissa (Hee’s beautiful muse) and Winnie (Chun Haw’s cute girlfriend).

ARFC started with this line-up:

Keeper           -           Impeccable How Meng

Right-back     -           Resolute Jasper

Sweeper         -           Composed Jackson 

Stopper          -           Combative Ron

Left-back       -           Wonder Wayne

Left-mid         -           Skillful Weilit

Centre-mid    -           Talented Chun Haw

Centre-mid    -           Unpredictable Blackburn (captain)

Right-mid      -           Nippy Kenny  

Striker                        -           Speedy Hee

Striker                        -           Towering Toh

             

Subs:

Unbeatable Darren

Influential Sebastian 

Powerful Alvin

Astute-reading sweeper Elvis

Talisman Derrick

ARFC Scoring Legend Haron

Absent:

Marauding Guoxiong  

Dynamic Soon

Dependable Jinzhong

Steely Tze Ern

Sublime Khim

Hard-man Tjioe

Booming Boon

Jiawei

The 77,777 fans witnessed for the very first time that ARFC’s young guns, How Meng, Jasper, Weilit, Jackson and Chun Haw, all started the match together. This provided a glimpse of the future main-stays of ARFC and hopefully they can deliver.

It did not take long for ARFC to open the floodgates. From Blackburn’s precise corner, Toh leaped highest to simply head the ball powerfully into the net for his 66^th ARFC goal. 1-0.

With this goal, Toh moved to level terms with Derrick.

ARFC then made 6 substitutions with Elvis for Ron, Sebastian for Blackburn, Derrick for Kenny, Haron for Toh, Alvin for Hee and Darren for Wayne.

The opponents then equalized after a really bona fide mistake from ARFC’s defence! Elvis pushed up his defence and shouted “Ref!” with his left hand up in an attempt to play off-side.  Since there was no referee, all other ARFC defenders actually stood still and when all realized, it was a bit too late and the opponent, though clearly off-side, scored. A bit comical but I guessed habits are hard to break! Haha

ARFC restored the lead just 77 seconds later. From Alvin’s corner from the left, Derrick was unchallenged as he moved into space and simply nodded the ball into the net for his 67^th ARFC goal. 2-1.

Derrick’s goal moved him ahead of Toh.

Alvin again turned provider when he released a world-class through ball to Haron. Haron took a clever first touch to kill the ball and before their keeper can react, he placed the ball nice and cosy into the bottom far corner for his 196^th ARFC goal. World-class touch and goal. 3-1

By now, Alvin was firing at all cylinders. Minutes later, he held up the ball really well ala Drogba at the left wing and hearing Blackburn’s call, he laid a nice rolling ground ball to him who needed no second invitation to fire home his 132^nd ARFC goal. 4-1

ARFC was not done. From a quick break-away, Sebastian sliced a nice curling waist-height ball to Alvin who took a brilliant touch, brought the ball goalwards and almost burst the net with a thumping outside right foot shot for his 209^th ARFC goal. 5-1.

After almost eternity, the match break for half-time.

In the 2^nd half, ARFC continued its dominance but was unable to add to the tally till the 77^th min. The ball was switched from right to left in a flowing move and reached Hee’s feet.  Hee bidded his time, shouted for Melissa to see and after Melissa looked up, Hee whipped in a low curling shot to beat their keeper at his near post. Great shot and this was Hee’s 92^nd ARFC goal. 6-1

With 77 seconds to go, ARFC scored its 7^th goal of the match. Wgile at the left touch-line and faced with 3 opponents, Wayne played the ball backwards to Blackburn who was 47 metres away from goal at the left side. Blackburn continued his “red hot chilli peppers” form when he chipped an audacious ball which sailed over their keeper and nestled nicely at the top right hand corner for his 133^rd ARFC goal. 7-1

No voting was implemented since there was no referee but Alvin and Hee are my joint Men-of-the-Match. Alvin for his assists and Hee for his relentless pressing both at defence and attack.