CABALISTICO Scalping
Mohd Marzuki Khairul had to agree that this had been one of the stranger - and more frustrating - matches that he had been involved in, for his career thus far. "They weren't hanging back like a lot of other teams, but there was just no way to get in, for the first half. Not that it got much better after that."
Farmer Bunnies would visit Italy to take on Divsion Six side Scarponi FC, and won 2-0 against the yellow-and-blue-clad hosts.
Miran Raulj might not exactly figure very highly in the Buns' reckoning, but the 37 year-old Croatian midfielder would be in his element today, destroying Scarponi's movement through the middle and bagging twice besides.
"I had no idea what came over me." Raulj beamed afterwards. "Everything just went right for me today!"
As for Grilled International, they started strongly at home against Peruvian Division Five side CABALISTICO, with
Shantinath Singh finishing off a carefully-worked sequence in the 38th minute. Ettore Casciani forced a rebound home on the hour, however, and it was all downhill from there with Quincy Nierop and Ernestino Alegre making it 1-3 by the end.
To add injury to the mix, International captain
Safari bin Hj Jali will now miss the first two league games of the coming season, after he pulled his right thigh badly in executing a sliding tackle, about the 77th minute. "It'll be a pain without Safari." fellow oldie
Zaini bin Hj Kaling sighed. "At least it's an easy league."