Bunnies Hop Up
The home crowd were cordial enough to clap
Domenik Bögengang off after his testimonial concluded, though the Number Nineteen had been little more than one of them through it. "What can I say, I'm done." Bögengang smiled ruefully. "Guess I'll spend a week or two resting up, before figuring what to do next."
Farmer Bunnies had been successful in their qualifier against BENG UTD before that, as they saw BENG UTD off in a fearfully cutthroat duel.
Brendan Leung's ninth minute opener on the counter didn't go down well with the famously rowdy ZOUK CLUB crowd, and when captain Liow Seng Wen had to be carried off injured after a collision with
Sofian Azfar - which they felt not to be accidental at all - the match was always tinder waiting for a spark.
This arrived when
Daniel Nguyen stamped on Murat Sezen in his eagerness to recover the ball for a shot, which Italian referee Carlo Maria De Dionigi initially let off with a yellow; somehow, this would be upgraded to a red after he was surrounded by furious BENGs, which nearly led to an outright brawl.
Ironically, all this commotion probably helped
Enzo Paolo Panzarino breeze through to deposit an uncontestable second goal after the game restarted, upon which control was lost again. It was hard to make out what happened after that, but replays showed
Tham Leng Teck booked, and
Aswad Mohd Jafni hitting the crossbar sometime during the confusion.
There appeared serious discussions as to whether the match should be abandoned, but senior staff managed to quell the disturbance, and BENG UTD would never come close to scoring in a comparatively tame second half.
Bunnies head coach
Sikong Darong was just glad to get out of Woodlands in one piece after that. "If that's what we will be up against week in, week out in Division Three, I'm not sure if I can last the season!"
