Super Shakeup
Half of the current S-League participants will ply their trade in Division Two next season, as both the quick-starting lcfc and grand oldies Hattrick all the time lost their relegation games. In their place will return past champions Team Singapore and Orchard boomers BlueNite, who achieved successive promotions from the third division.
Team Singapore, who have seven top flight seasons under their belt - more than any S-League team next season save Herron - downed the luckless lcfc with an improbable four goal fightback, after the home side had gone 2-0 up in ten minutes. It must have been a disappointing end for the home side, who have been on a steady decline since the mid season.
HaTT's match at the National Stadium was less dramatic, but just as bitterly fought. Having flirted with demotion more than once in the past seasons, but somehow staying afloat through strong offensive play, the venerable City-based club finally fell prey to stiff competition.
In a very close contest which might have tilted either way, the clinical finishing of BlueNite came when it mattered. While speedy Irish winger Carl Kerry gave HaTT a goal back to make it 1-2, the visitors' homebred midfielder Liu Yi-Ping converted a penalty to destroy one of the longest reigns in the S-League, and perhaps a dynasty.
