Grilled faced up with the club formerly known as beyond once again after twenty-five long seasons, and while it had undergone many naming changes, being known as Ah Hao Utd, Refco Tigers, The Destructor and most recently Gonner4ever Fc, little of substance had changed as they were again smashed by the Birds.

There was more excitement than usual at New Highbury as Montenegro ex-international Vukota Crkvenjakov made his first appearance on Singaporean soil. He would be largely untried, though, as the Gonners rarely advanced that far up in the ninety minutes.

The season's first scorer turned out to be extremely popular with the visitors, as Mohd Safri latched onto a generous pass from Dorogan in the second minute. He shimmied past his marker in one fluid move, and after Gonners goalkeeper Wen Chongfeng moved too early, couldn't miss with half the net to aim at.

The rest of the half belonged to Grilled's more experienced strikers, as Bögengang impressed with a complicated volley that found its way past a couple of frenzied blockers. Rotteveel then couldn't miss two minutes later after Safri laid it on a platter for him, and it was touching to behold the club's unfortunately probably-soon-to-be-past, and probable future, embrace.

Bögengang then snapped everybody back into the present, as he reasserted himself by plowing into the heart of the defence, leaving the Gonner players clearly despondent.

Ciro Penati is known to enjoy toying with slower fullbacks, and the 35 year-old Ibrahim Mohd Nadzir could rightly feel proud of himself when he managed to cleanly tackle the slippery Italian in the 48th minute. However, Penati recovered far more quickly than he thought possible, and promptly robbed the ball back and scored.

Bögengang then embarassingly headed air as Dorogan's cross appeared to be a sure assist, before Safri celebrated his first professional brace in the 78th minute, through a fine right-footed drive into Chongfeng's bottom corner.

It was followed five minutes later by his first hat-trick, a tap-in after a inventive through ball by Branbilla, and as if that wasn't enough, his first four-bagger after another five minutes; That came after he narrowly avoided his first serious injury, as Huang Xin Keong was booked for a woeful hack on the effervescent youngster.

Penati added one more amidst Safri's feat, but it was apparent who would dominate the headlines the next day.