King Kenny rules the day in land-slide 9-2 win

In arguably his best performance in a ARFC shirt, Kenny put up a virtuoso display to inspire ARFC to a dominating 9-2 victory over Diablo at Pierce SS.

ARFC started with this line-up:

Keeper           -           Impeccable How Meng

Right-back     -           Dependable Jinzhong

Sweeper         -           Astute-reading sweeper Elvis

Stopper          -           Combative Ron   

Left-back       -           Unpredictable Blackburn

Left-mid         -           Wonder Wayne   

Centre-mid    -           Dynamic Soon

Centre-mid    -           Influential Sebastian

Right-mid      -           Speedy Hee

Striker                        -           Powerful Alvin (captain)

Striker                        -           Nippy Kenny           

  

Subs:

Unbeatable Darren (requested to be left out first as he was waiting for his PRC MILF client to collect his sperm)

Talented Chun Haw (late)

Composed Jackson (late)

Alan (trialist – JZ’s friend)

Absent:

ARFC Scoring Legend Haron

Talisman Derrick

Steely Tze Ern  

Resolute Jasper

Skillful Weilit

Towering Toh

Marauding Guoxiong  

Hard-man Tjioe

Sublime Khim

Booming Boon

Jiawei

On a cold and wet day when a nice cuddling session with a love one is more appropriate, ARFC opened the floodgates with virtually its first attack of the match within 77 seconds.  Wayne exchanged wall-passes with Alvin and galloped down the left-hand side. Alvin returned the ball to him and Wayne then expertly rolled the ball across their keeper for his 10^th ARFC goal. 1-0

With this goal, Wayne moved up to 25^th position in the ARFC leading scorers’ list.

ARFC doubled its lead 77 seconds later. From a quick-thinking throw-in from Hee on the right, Kenny trapped the ball nicely, swivelled past their defender and dinked in a delicious and precise cross to the far post ala David Beckham. Alvin came in from deep and all he had to do was simply put his head there to nod it home. 2-0 and this was his 215^th ARFC goal.

ARFC then surprisingly conceded a goal from their counter-attack. 2-1

ARFC regained its two-goal cushion with yet another assist from Kenny. Kenny again received the ball near the right touch-line/6-yard box. Surrounded by a sea of defenders, Kenny somehow heard Soon’s call for the ball and laid the ball out. Soon took a gentle touch and duly swept home a left-foot beauty for his 52^nd ARFC goal.

3-1

ARFC put the result beyond doubt minutes later. From Sebastian’s corner on the right, Chun Haw, who replaced Wayne just minutes earlier, dashed in from the blindside to plant a firm and hard header past their keeper for his 24^th ARFC goal. 4-1

ARFC then conceded another surprise goal. 4-2

Jinzhong then prevented the opponents from pulling closer after he dished out a last-ditch tackle to deny their striker a clean shot at goal in the box. Wonderful defending.

Just 77 seconds before the half, Darren finally appeared after settling his PRC business.

ARFC pulled further ahead within 77 seconds of the re-start. Sebastian’s low grounder pierced, as we are playing at Pierce Sec Sch, through their defence and Kenny came in from deep. Kenny reached the ball ahead of their keeper but before he could shoot into the empty net, he was cruelly brought down by their covering defender. Sebastian stepped down to firmly and calmly fizzed a diagonal low shot into the right-hand side of their keeper’s goal. 5-2 and this was Sebastian’s 89^th ARFC goal.

Chun Haw then notched his brace after Kenny and Alvin caused mayhem in the box.  Lapping up the loose ball, Chun Haw dispatched a low rocket for his 25^th ARFC goal. 6-2

With this goal, Chun Haw is now in joint-14^th position with ex-ARFC legend, Kiat Gulam, at 25 goals.

Kenny finally got his just rewards after his various assists and some unlucky shots. From clever inter-play between Hee and Sebastian, Kenny turned sharply to power home a low flying shot that almost burst the net for his 28^th ARFC goal.  7-2

Kenny was not done. He turned provider yet again after his very eye-catching low diagonal ball from the right totally bedazzled their defence. Alvin ran in from the left, break their off-side trap and the result was yet another goal from Alvin. 8-2 and this was Alvin 216^th ARFC goal.

With seconds to go, ARFC did an almost replica of Lineker’s World Cup goal against Argentina in 1986 when Maradona scored the Goal of the Century in Argentina’s 2-1 win.

Wayne was released by Chun Haw down the left flank and he swung in an almost inch-perfect cross from the left wing ala John Barnes in the 1986 match. The ball seemed to be hit just out of reach of Alvin but he had other ideas. Alvin moved a step backwards, leaped into the air and thumped home a header ala Gary Lineker in the 1986 match that had their keeper clutching thin air to complete his hat-trick. 9-2 and this was Alvin’s 217^th ARFC goal.

This was also Alvin’s 19^th ARFC hat-trick which netted a total of 64 goals.

Voting results:

Chun Haw – 22 pts

Kenny – 19 pts

Alvin – 13 pts

Wayne – 7 pts

Sebastian & Elvis – 5 pts each

Jinzhong – 4 pts

Darren, Jackson & Soon – 3 pts each

Congratulations to Chun Haw & Kenny for winning $10 and $5 respectively.