Match #23 (26 June 11): Durains Harvested!

MS is now the name of a new breed of durian. With the match barely hitting the 20th minute mark, Eusoffianos were already 5-0 up before going for the break at 7-1! Yes, we won the 2nd half 2-0 to reduce the eventual scoreline to 7-3 but somehow, that was no comfort to our most awful performance. We were wondering what hit us in the opening 20 minutes, everyone must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. For the record, Mark (the best goal of the 10 goals scored), Simon (penalty) and Woon stole 3 durians from their plantation :)

Match #22 (18 June 11): 2nd Class MS Overcame Elite 3 - 1!

A bunch of mostly mid-40s vs a bunch of mid-20s; we had 12 and they had 16; what did we do? Use our experience, in more than the tactical sense.

Simon capitalised on their fumbling keeper with a long-range free-kick just after the mid-line for our opening goal. They equalised early in 2nd half. With the tie at 1-1 and most of us running out of steam, we frustrated them with niggling fouls that drove most of them up the wall. They lost their concentration in the last 10 minutes and Teck Wah set up 2 goals for guest player KK and then his brother.

Post match, their player asked me of our team name, and I explained. 1985 - the founding members of Marine Sunday finished our junior college education, that was the year Elite players were born!

Match #20 (4 June 11): Marinesunday went sleeping

Not sure if we had indeed played badly. Not winning this match against ACME was bad enough, given the number of chances we had. But to concede 5 goals?? That was a different story altogether. Goals from Teck Wah, Chor Guan and Teck Chye offered little consolation but nevertheless their effort should be commended. 3 - 5... how did it happen?