Haron and Chun Haw in starring role in 4-2 win

Playing a day after Sebastian’s 43^rd birthday and Guns N Roses’ first-ever concert in Singapore, ARFC turned back the clock to YESTERDAY, rewarded its supporters’ PATIENCE and sent them to PARADISE CITY with a comprehensive and decisive 4-2 CIVIL WAR victory over Tebing FC.

ARFC started with this line-up:

Jersey no.	Name	Position
33	Talisman Derrick	Goalkeeper
31	Vintage Chua	Right-back
20	Composed Eng Lai	Sweeper
xx	YY (guest player)	Stopper
6	Unbeatable Darren	Left-back
16	Marauding Guoxiong	Right-mid
14	Combative Ron	Centre-mid
8	Talented Chun Haw	Centre-mid
66	Wonder Wayne	Left-mid
9	ARFC Scoring Legend Haron	Striker
99	Powerful Alvin	Striker
Subs:
2	Unpredictable Blackburn
15	Towering Toh
78	Steely Tze Ern
Absent:
3	Astute-reading sweeper Elvis
4	Dynamic Soon
5	Impeccable How Meng
7	Influential Sebastian
10	Sublime Khim
11	Speedy Hee
17	Nippy Kenny
18	Determined Huiming
19	Skillful Weilit
21	Rampaging Raymond
28	Hard-man Tjioe
45	Commanding Ismail
77	Dependable Jinzhong

After a sustained period of domination, ARFC finally made the breakthrough in the 27^th min. From his right-back position, Chua passed the ball to Guoxiong who spotted Haron’s incisive run and chipped the ball over their left-back.  The laser-sharp ball fell nicely to Haron who, without breaking his stride, swivellled and guided the ball to the far corner beyond the out-stretched legs of their GK.  1-0 and this was Haron’s 237^th ARFC goal.

In the 70^th min, the opponents equalized from a free-kick.

However, their joy was short-lived as ARFC regained its lead within 77 seconds. 

From the left-side, Darren launched his world-renowned monstrous long throw right into the 6-yard box. Despite being sandwiched by 2 big defenders, Toh still managed to flick the ball backwards. The lurking Haron was the biggest beneficiary as the ball was “thighed” home by Haron for his 238^th ARFC goal. 2-1.

In the 77^th min came the move of the match.  From its own half defending a corner, the ball fell to Blackburn who was standing at the top of the penalty box. He then managed to nutmeg the opponent and topped that up by dribbling past 2 opponents.  Hearing Alvin asking for the ball on the left, Blackburn duly sent him scapering away down the left from halfway line.  Alvin then demonstrated his trade-mark move yet again by powering down the left wing before squaring to the on-rushing Chun Haw who simply slammed the ball home for his 52^nd ARFC goal. 3-1.

177 seconds later, ARFC put the result to bed with another goal from counter-attack. Again defending a corner, Wayne found Haron with an exquisite pass and the latter took a touch before producing a slide-rule pass for Chun Haw to run in from deep.  Chun Haw showed great composure by dribbling past their GK before squeezing the ball into the empty net. 4-1 and this was Chun Haw’s 53^rd ARFC goal.

ARFC then turned complacent and conceded another goal. 4-2

Voting results:

Chun Haw – 12

Haron – 11

Guoxiong – 5

Darren – 5

Alvin – 2

Wayne – 1