FlyBoys vs Futsal Crew

Good  evening/morning/afternoon ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the flyboys match report centre, my name is Azman and I will be your reporter attempting to guide you through the events that unfolded on the 26th Oct 09.

First I woke up at 10:15am, then had breakfast, coco crunch with a little milk then I brush my teeth .... Okay fast forward to 4:15pm later that day. I arrived at Padang Royal Brunei to witness a handful of flyboyzz accumulating at the main stand, glancing over to the away side and the opposition seemed all geared up and ready in their brand-spanking-new kits. It was the conflict of all conflicts, the long time ancient struggle between Flight deck and cabin. Put us together and we form a Flight Crew.. but apart it becomes FLYBOYS vs FUTSAL CREW!!

Approaching kick off time and our numbers swelled quickly as the remaining flyboys rode up in their fancy pancy cars and carefully reverse parked into their spaces. It was a good turnout as the many Flyboys superstarz were present. Hj. Effendy and Amir read out the team selection :

GK : Hj.Daud

CB : Nasrul, Hj.Effendy

RB : Juju aka Julian aka Julie

LB : Hendra

CM : Hafiizh, Jiri

RM : Clem

LM : Shukri

ST : Amir, Sofian

A strong line up and could even afford to have a star-studded bench, with Azmi, Syazwi, Ismail, Zul-Fadli and myself. Zul-Amali also  volunteered as technical coach/camera-boy on the touchline.

Ref Roslan blew the whistle and the battle commenced.  excellent start by the cockpit crew as we were retaining possession in good fashion, CBs' Nasrul and Effendy taking turns sweeping up thru the middle of the park while Hendra and Juju provided good support play to wingers Shukri and Clem. it didnt take long for us to find the opening and it came from a persistent Amir who was determined to follow the ball into the back of the net, denied once, twice by the goalie, but not a third and 1-0 the score was.

Barely a few moments later  and something happened in the penalty box resulting in a penalty award for flyboys. The big question was who would take it? memories flashback to last season (before ramadhan break) when flyboys wasted opportunities from the pen spot, a certain right back comes to mind..  YOU know who u are Juju!! nevertheless, a fearless Hj.Effendy stepped confidently up, he winked at the goalie and puckered his lips into a flying kiss, then one second later the goalie was picking the ball out of the back of his net  as he was deceived by Hj.Effendy's strange facial expressions. 2-0!!

Time for some changes, Sofian departed for Ismail, and a beaten up looking Shukri came off as his 360 + 720 degrees zidane-esque spins drove the opposition into a tackling fenzy towards him. I stepped in his place taking up CB with Nasrul. Futsal Crew took shots at goal but Hj.Daud barely had to break a sweat gathering the ball calmly. On the edge of the first half Flyboys made it a treble as Ismail raced onto a clever ball from midfield and in a one-v-one he calmly chipped the goalie to chalk himself onto the scoreboard. 

Halftime came and Flyboys numbers were again replenished with the arrival of Alan Rosberg and Simon as well as Rosli and Azri who came to give support.

2nd half team :

Goalscorer Hj.Effendy decided to have a rest 2nd half but at the same time wanted to stand between the goal posts wearing gloves, while Azmi teamed up with me at CB, Nasrul moved into CM with Jiri, Alan RM, Ismail LM, and Simon partnered Zul-fadli up top.

Futsal Crew with their pride hurt restarted the match strongly, far too strongly tho when one of them decided to write his name into my shin using his adidas studs. Fortunately no major damage was done apart from an unpleasant stinging feeling in my leg. However the most incredible tackle was made by someone on the flyboys side who tackled....wait for it.....someone else on the flyboys side. Yes, it was the clash of the titans, the skies open up as the earth tremored and shock waves reverberated throughout the pitch when Azmi tackled Hendra. Azmi came out unscathed but Hendra needed some treatment and rest bite after being caught on the wrong side of a man-sandwich between a couple of cabin crew attackers and teammate Azmi.

In the midst of all that human carnage we actually added to our scoreline when a flyboys midfielder latched onto one of my skywards canon ball clearances and released pacy winger Ismail to come running down the left flank and curling his effort in from an acute angle. It was a masterclass of counter attacking football reminiscent of some weird looking skinny french guy named Ngok or something.

But the scoring wasnt over as we broke again down the leftside and the cross put in fell into the path of Sofian who cooly released his dipping effort from the egde of the pen box nestling the ball into bottom left corner of the goal. 5-0 it was and cabin crew could not find a way back.

The match was supposed to be chance for revenge for the Crew, but turned out to be a humbling defeat at the hands of Flyboys' best performance of the season so far without the help of any beach balls.

Man-Of-The-Match : every Flyboy who played  in the match, as we were all soooo good we even had to tackle each other to give them a chance!! 

Apologies to any offences and miss-outs in reporting, good luck with the next match guys.