RAIN UNITED
FOOTBALL CLUB
[ Liverpool vs Manchester United ]
We continued with more football in the evening. With the postponed friendly, I decided to pit Rain United's Liverpool and Man U supporters for this training. Though there were not all who were supporters of the 2 teams, I had wanted to test the probables against the possibles.
Knowing that most of the adult players were fans of Liverpool, I had briefed the team performance over the last friendly and had called for Rain United's continuity of attacking football but at the same time, to learn to detach the game. I cited Man U and Liverpool as examples.
Today, I had Kelvin Lim, a AFC "A" License coach who has coached S-League teams like Tampines and Gombak and an International and "real" Tanjong Pagar Football Club experienced, to show Rain United what it takes to play football. Though Kelvin was injured, his football touches and playing experienced was evident.
I decided to create some fun during the game. Wanting to disgust the Liverpool supporters, while we were leading the game at 3-2, on one incident, I decided to shout "Offside" and raised up my hand when there was a clear opportunity for Keng Yong to score his "first" from the rebound while I was playing as a keeper. Keng Yong obligingly stopped play while the disgusted Liverpool supporters were clearly shouting "foul". I reminded them that it was a "Fabien Bartez" act.
I also teased Mr Aw, who was able to save a ball despite taking a short nap at the shelter when the ball went into him. It was the perfect goalkeeper's instinct. Towards the end of the 90 minutes, I had decided to hand the whistle to Anand to blew it to agitate him. Instead he prolonged the game with an extra long.......ggggg injury time and even awarded a last miunte penalty to his own team. I placed the ball outside the penalty box for the kick, and again it was not meant to be. Keng Yong fluffed the penalty kick with my hands on my back.
Anand at this point went towards Razzali, another Liverpool die-hard and threw some "filthy" comments about wanting to get back on me but couldn't. He finally decided to blow the final whistle and gave up! The whistle was never returned. I guessed Anand may have either swallowed it up in his throat or might have threw it away. More will come till we meet again. Razzali was still fuming on Sunday while I was teasing him on the Saturday night's results in the EPL.