Chun Haw’s 4-goal heroic could not prevent ARFC’s first loss in 6 matches

 Playing its 9^th match of 2026, ARFC saw its 5^th consecutive victories upended by a 5-7 defeat by Red Army on 23 Aug 2026 at 6 pm at the SRC@Ayer Rajah pitch. 

 

ARFC was supported by Katie (Nova’s daughter) and Elvis’ children (Tiara, Gina and Dylan). 

 

ARFC took to the pitch with this 4-5-1 line-up:

 

Jersey No.:	Name	Position
27	Commanding Jeremy	Goalkeeper
66	Vintage Chua	Right back
15	Towering Toh	Sweeper
28	Hard-man Tjioe	Stopper
13	Bullet Nova	Left back
16	Marauding Guoxiong	Right mid
7	Influential Sebastian (Captain)	Centre Mid
4	Dynamic Soon	Centre Mid
23	Talented Chun Haw	Centre Mid
19	Skillful Wei Lit	Left Mid
9	ARFC Scoring Legend Haron	Striker
Substitutes:
2	Remarkable Rashid
3	Astute-reading sweeper Elvis
6	Unbeatable Darren
8	Versatile Allan
12	Elegant Lip Sen
99	Powerful Alvin
Missing In Action:
5	Energetic Kerwin
10	Sublime Khim
11	Steely Tze Ern
14	Combative Ron
17	Nippy Kenny
18	Wonder Wayne
20	Composed Eng Lai
21	Devastating Dominic
22	Elegant Keith
24	Fearless Chong Ghee
25	Speedy Jovin
26	Rampaging Raymond
30	Divine Delon
77	Robust Hong Lee
79	Enigma Enoch
88	Talisman Derrick
98	Impeccable How Meng

 

 

ARFC made a worse start when it conceded a penalty. 0-1.

 

Determined to make amends, ARFC pushed hard and was quickly rewarded with an equaliser.

 

Nova’s long throw from the right was headed back to him by their defender.  Killing the ball with a great first touch, Nova sent a high ball back into the box and Chun Haw leaped higher than their defender and GK to head home a brilliant glancing header.  

 

1-1 and this was Chun Haw’s 118^th ARFC goal, moving him past ex-legend Speedy Hee’s 117 goals for ARFC and is currently at 5^th position of ARFC’s all-time top scorers list.

 

ARFC then conceded another goal to trail 1-2.

 

Chun Haw and Wei Lit then combined down the left that saw Chun Haw moving into the left hand side of the box.  Shaping to shoot, Chun Haw lured the opponent into a tackle when he cut inwards with a clever shimmy and was upended in the box.

 

Haron stood up and duly sent their GK the wrong way with a composed penalty.

 

2-2 and this was Haron’s 284^th ARFC goal. 

 

At the 22^nd min mark, Sebastian made 6 substitutions with Darren, Allan, Elvis, Rashid, Lip Sen and Alvin replacing Nova, Chua, Toh, Soon, Sebastian and Haron respectively. 

 

ARFC was conceded a break-away goal. 2-3 now.

 

Straight from the re-start point, Chun Haw showed incredible vision when he spotted their GK off his line.  With a powerful swing of his boot, he struck an incredulous ball that sailed perfectly over their GK that stunned everyone, including the many hot babes playing at the Padel Ball courts beside the pitch!!!!

 

3-3 and this was Chun Haw’s 119^th ARFC goal. 

 

The opponents then scored 2 more goals. 3-5.

 

ARFC did not give up at all.  

 

First, Lip Sen sent over a delicious ball from corner on the left to the far post.  Chun Haw was lurking and he stole in and thundered home a bullet header that almost burst the net!

 

4-5 and this was Chun Haw’s 120^th ARFC goal.

 

It was also Chun Haw's 11^th ARFC hat-trick!

 

Not fully done, Chun Haw then scored his 4^th of the match when he was brought down in the box after charging in with the ball.  He dusted himself down the ground and drilled in a high diagonal penalty past their GK.

 

5-5 and this was Chun Haw’s 121^st ARFC goal, putting him just 10 goals behind Sebastian’s 131 ARFC goal at 4^thposition. 

 

Unfortunately, ARFC could not hold on and conceded 2 late goals to lose 5-7.

 

Despite the loss against a good team that could pass the ball well and get into spaces, ARFC did very well and every ARFC warrior played good and all gave their all on the pitch.

 

We could have scored another 2-3 goals but just could not find a good footing on those chances.  Jeremy also did very well with several brilliant saves.  

 

The star of this match has to be, of course, Chun Haw.  Scorer of 4 goals and creator of another goal, Chun Haw played like a demon possessed (may be it’s the ghost month now) and was totally unplayable.