Match #24 (3 July 11): Late Recovery Saved Us The Blushes!

We have developed a habit of making things difficult for ourselves. No disrespect to Samsung Whites but we should have done better to bury them but instead we allowed them to come back each time to equalise at 1-1, 2-2, even let them take a lead 2-3 before our late onslaught secured a 5-3 win over them. Opening goal by Kian Hwa, a hat-trick by Teck Wah and a scorcher from Simon got us the goals. Their keeper kept us at bay with a string of reflex saves, most notably denying Teck Chye at point blank.

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?

Match #19 (28 May 11): 2-1 win over Law Soc

An evenly contested match in sweltering heat and we emerged worthy winner though Law Soc had themselves to kick for not converting the penalty, our 3rd concession of penalty in 3 successive matches, early in the 2nd half. Mike and Teck Wah kept up their fine form of scoring - the former on whenever his rare appearance; the latter in 3 successive matches.

Match #18 (22 May 11): Close-shave 4-3 Win over Old Foes

It was a match we should have wrestled with ease but we made life difficult for ourselves, allowing them to come back each time. Our 1st goal was brilliantly worked out with Yong Chua beating the offside trap to latch onto Simon's through ball to lob over the keeper. 2nd goal was through sheer persistence of Teck Chye to force their sweeper to score an own goal. Our last 2 goals came from fast breakaways, Teck Wah benefitted from guest player KK's dummy to slot the ball under the keeper and he then set up a shoulder-height ball for KH to nod in the winning goal. Old Foes filled in the gap in between our goals.

Match #17 (14 May 11): Agonising 2-3 loss to Gaza

We last met on 13 February and fought out an even 2-2 draw at St Wilfrid. It could have been the same as well for this match but for a moment of brilliance by their right-winger who weaved past Ng and Chor Guan like a slimey snake to score the winning goal from a tight angle, we ended up as undeserving losers :(.

For the record, Teck Wah got a brace, including a well-worked goal from our guest right fullback who intercepted the ball in our half and sped down the flank to send in a delightful cross for Teck Wah to nod it in.