The Same O' Heartwrenching Story
They say lightning never strikes the same place twice, but it just did today...
Last year, We played RH in the semis and we lost in the penalty shootout cos we couldn't finish them off...
This year, we nailed them in the coffin but they did it again... to us... penalty shootout...
Rain poured before the game, ensuring that we have a muddy pitch to start the match with. We didnt start particularly well, but we begin to dominate once it got going... what omar? what nasir and not to mention tweety and weixiang... I got a bad tackle from Nasir which almost resulted in a penalty... but it never came, i wonder why, all my legitimate penalty claims were brushed aside by the referees this year... Later on, Alvin got a scruffed shot and its 2/3 thru when roger sent in a cross and i latched it on and scored with a header.. beating tweety and finally laying the ghost to rest... the myth around him all shattered and i knew i can get more... I celebrated with a dive in the mud... much to the delight of the supporters. The year 4s, i thought i had extended your retirement... when i remembered vividly before the match, renhan came up to me and said i wanna play in the finals and my reply was "I will make sure you play in the finals."
And I told weifeng, you do your job... i will do mine... and i did it.. and there was Roger who came over last night and said to me... please score, it will make defenders' work easier... Second half, we knew they were going to come at us, they have nothing to lose... but we were not to be trifle with, we started brightly, carrying on the momentum... within mins, we broke down their defence again, Pillay almost scored when his header clipped the post. And i scored one more when Yong beat tweety but the ball got stuck in the mud at the goal-line. It didnt matter who scored at that point, i thought we had the game sealed. After that, Kenneth Yong was breaking down their defence with ease and he had 4 great chances to put the game away but it didn't fall for him... 2 went over the bar, 1 on each side of the post, so close... i was sent thru once and i should have side-stepped tweety but he came crashing into me and the chance went begging... Then, it happened, Pillay did the most unbecoming thing when he chose to pass back to weifeng in the water-logged pitch and the ball got stuck, weifeng tried to stop the interception by omar but only succeeded in giving away a penalty which they converted. It was all the worse when we specifically addressed this issue during the halftime team talk - never, never, never pass the ball back. I think we lost shape after that and they managed to equalise just minutes before the final whistle, our worst fears confirmed. I had a bad feeling after that, some kind of those deja vu feeling... I didnt want a repeat of last year's semis to happen again...
extra time, we had the chance to kill they off when we won a freekick at the edge of the penalty box, Adrian, Royston, stood over the ball and i kept shouting to royston to pass the ball to me cos i had a clear shot on goal. but he chose to ram in into the wall, much much much to my anger... den Daniel came in for me... due cramps from over running, i was praying for a miracle which never came and it came down to penalties again which we lost 4-1... It was heartwrenching... when it was all over, i could only turn my back and walked to the opposite side of the pitch and teared... It was all the more painful when we were leading and we threw it away, all the more painful when we lost 2 years in a row to penalty shootout...
On the way back, Pillay walked alone, i know how he feels, he must be broken cos he caused the penalty and failed to track nasir's run for the equaliser... i know exactly that when it was my poor finishing last year which led to our exit.. he must have been feeling the most guilty... Kenneth must be feeling no better too for the chances that fell in his way... The better team did not win again, for 2 years in a row... Temasek will have it easy against them, i just know, i bet it will be a trashing handed out to them, and i hope it will be so... I've never felt so much heartaches from soccer before...
I just felt shortchanged, we didnt deserve this kind of shit... we deserve better.. Temasek was so afraid to play us, but now they had it easy... RH.. c'mon, what crap... painful for the people who are graduating, weifeng, roger, kristian, cheekz, han, tze chong... the team will never be the same again, its so painful that i dun even know if i can take playing again next year... i really dunno... I'm sorry guys, i couldn't extend your retirement... And the guys like barney, daming, hiep and so many others who couldnt even get a game or get named on the subs bench and even patrick and ben who got injured... its just so terrible... maybe we should seriously fuck the should have beens and its the process shit, we let slipped and its our fault, who doesnt wanna win... i'm despaired and the images just kept running through over and over again... agonising..
Danlin was very sweet, she came over and tried to comfort me... and just gave me a hug before she left... Yasi came over and gave me a packet of chocolate biscuits and there were hugs from ben, patrick, naj, jerraine, derrick and even my jnr minwei who plays for RH (who said they din even deserve to go thru) and comforting words all around... These, guys, can never make up for the agony of missing out.. when we know that deep down inside, we wanted this gold more than anything else... Soccer will never be the same again... i think...
Last year, We played RH in the semis and we lost in the penalty shootout cos we couldn't finish them off...
This year, we nailed them in the coffin but they did it again... to us... penalty shootout...
Rain poured before the game, ensuring that we have a muddy pitch to start the match with. We didnt start particularly well, but we begin to dominate once it got going... what omar? what nasir and not to mention tweety and weixiang... I got a bad tackle from Nasir which almost resulted in a penalty... but it never came, i wonder why, all my legitimate penalty claims were brushed aside by the referees this year... Later on, Alvin got a scruffed shot and its 2/3 thru when roger sent in a cross and i latched it on and scored with a header.. beating tweety and finally laying the ghost to rest... the myth around him all shattered and i knew i can get more... I celebrated with a dive in the mud... much to the delight of the supporters. The year 4s, i thought i had extended your retirement... when i remembered vividly before the match, renhan came up to me and said i wanna play in the finals and my reply was "I will make sure you play in the finals."
And I told weifeng, you do your job... i will do mine... and i did it.. and there was Roger who came over last night and said to me... please score, it will make defenders' work easier... Second half, we knew they were going to come at us, they have nothing to lose... but we were not to be trifle with, we started brightly, carrying on the momentum... within mins, we broke down their defence again, Pillay almost scored when his header clipped the post. And i scored one more when Yong beat tweety but the ball got stuck in the mud at the goal-line. It didnt matter who scored at that point, i thought we had the game sealed. After that, Kenneth Yong was breaking down their defence with ease and he had 4 great chances to put the game away but it didn't fall for him... 2 went over the bar, 1 on each side of the post, so close... i was sent thru once and i should have side-stepped tweety but he came crashing into me and the chance went begging... Then, it happened, Pillay did the most unbecoming thing when he chose to pass back to weifeng in the water-logged pitch and the ball got stuck, weifeng tried to stop the interception by omar but only succeeded in giving away a penalty which they converted. It was all the worse when we specifically addressed this issue during the halftime team talk - never, never, never pass the ball back. I think we lost shape after that and they managed to equalise just minutes before the final whistle, our worst fears confirmed. I had a bad feeling after that, some kind of those deja vu feeling... I didnt want a repeat of last year's semis to happen again...
extra time, we had the chance to kill they off when we won a freekick at the edge of the penalty box, Adrian, Royston, stood over the ball and i kept shouting to royston to pass the ball to me cos i had a clear shot on goal. but he chose to ram in into the wall, much much much to my anger... den Daniel came in for me... due cramps from over running, i was praying for a miracle which never came and it came down to penalties again which we lost 4-1... It was heartwrenching... when it was all over, i could only turn my back and walked to the opposite side of the pitch and teared... It was all the more painful when we were leading and we threw it away, all the more painful when we lost 2 years in a row to penalty shootout...
On the way back, Pillay walked alone, i know how he feels, he must be broken cos he caused the penalty and failed to track nasir's run for the equaliser... i know exactly that when it was my poor finishing last year which led to our exit.. he must have been feeling the most guilty... Kenneth must be feeling no better too for the chances that fell in his way... The better team did not win again, for 2 years in a row... Temasek will have it easy against them, i just know, i bet it will be a trashing handed out to them, and i hope it will be so... I've never felt so much heartaches from soccer before...
I just felt shortchanged, we didnt deserve this kind of shit... we deserve better.. Temasek was so afraid to play us, but now they had it easy... RH.. c'mon, what crap... painful for the people who are graduating, weifeng, roger, kristian, cheekz, han, tze chong... the team will never be the same again, its so painful that i dun even know if i can take playing again next year... i really dunno... I'm sorry guys, i couldn't extend your retirement... And the guys like barney, daming, hiep and so many others who couldnt even get a game or get named on the subs bench and even patrick and ben who got injured... its just so terrible... maybe we should seriously fuck the should have beens and its the process shit, we let slipped and its our fault, who doesnt wanna win... i'm despaired and the images just kept running through over and over again... agonising..
Danlin was very sweet, she came over and tried to comfort me... and just gave me a hug before she left... Yasi came over and gave me a packet of chocolate biscuits and there were hugs from ben, patrick, naj, jerraine, derrick and even my jnr minwei who plays for RH (who said they din even deserve to go thru) and comforting words all around... These, guys, can never make up for the agony of missing out.. when we know that deep down inside, we wanted this gold more than anything else... Soccer will never be the same again... i think...
posted by EniGmAtiC NoStaLgiA at 12/27/2005 08:34:00 PM
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