Grilled Birds 1 - 2
Haha 
Close But No Cigars
Hilal Bakhtiar was agonized at the team again falling to Haha when it mattered, but felt that it was a toss-up to begin with. "This isn't the all-conquering squad we had a few seasons back." the head coach yielded. "We need to be realistic here. Moey was maybe our best player again after he came on, but the guy is like, thirty-seven already."
"We will go all out to secure the Challenger Cup, but after that, we need to think long and hard about the club's future too. This squad can't go on indefinitely."
These were perhaps difficult words to hear for many of the Birds' faithful, but they rang of a deeper truth. "Yeah, he's right." season pass holder Allan Yeo, who departed Tarpots Rec. still waving his scarf, conceded. "This may turn out to have been our best shot at the big one, for many more years."
Farmer Bunnies would accept Dutch VI.477 leaders Fc Purperkoet's proposal for a friendly at Carrot Field, and would prevail through
Vitaliy Efendiev's classy take on the fly, coming four minutes before the break. Some rough play in the build-up that crocked the visitors' Freark Aalsma however led to some further shoving, that saw
Billy Camperio off and Efendiev take over as captain, although the goal did stand.
As for Grilled International, their participation in cup competition would be at an end, after they were schooled by English H.I. IV.50 frontrunners Stratton. As with the Birds, International had no answer to their opponents' bend towards defence, what with Stratton having raised head coach Armin Reinisch's 3-4-3 to a fine art. Italian centre-forward Pompiliu Polesello muscled his way to two goals, with
Chua Jun Long and
Wang Hanxuan responsible for International's in a 2-5 defeat.
Sazwan bin Hj Muhd Salleh had to come off late due to a badly stubbed toe, but should not be out for long.
