Team Vasantham - 2 (Ananth, Naresh (small))
Warrant Officers SAFTI - 2
(MOTM - Naresh (small))
Team Vasantham - 1 (Ganesh)
ICE - 5
(MOTM - Kajay)
Team Vasantham - 1 (Vinod)
Japan Expatriates - 1
(MOTM - Vinod)
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
double trouble.. but no win!
Team Vasantham - 3 (Vinod 2, Kajay)
Warriors Sembawan - 6
Depford Field
(MOTM - Vinod)
A game marred by the worst refereeing decisions we have encountered. A good fightback in the 2nd half couldnt salvage the game.
Team Vasantham - 2 (Anand, Small Naresh)
Old Boys - 2SAFTI FIELD
(MOTM - Small Naresh)
Every game we have one logistic nightmare, this time the field had no lines!! floodlight failure as well.. a game that we controlled had some major fouling by the opponents. Still we stuck to it and managaed to rally especially small naresh's speedy incursions along the flanks. and a 30m goal of the season from anand!
Warriors Sembawan - 6
Depford Field
(MOTM - Vinod)
A game marred by the worst refereeing decisions we have encountered. A good fightback in the 2nd half couldnt salvage the game.
Team Vasantham - 2 (Anand, Small Naresh)
Old Boys - 2SAFTI FIELD
(MOTM - Small Naresh)
Every game we have one logistic nightmare, this time the field had no lines!! floodlight failure as well.. a game that we controlled had some major fouling by the opponents. Still we stuck to it and managaed to rally especially small naresh's speedy incursions along the flanks. and a 30m goal of the season from anand!
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Sooooo Close! but...
TVasantham - 3 (Elamaran, Saravanan Ayyavoo, Prakash)
ParamKis - 4
Our first defeat, but fully undeserved because we realy played well and deserved better. We let the other team take shots from outside the box, which proved to be our undoing. we had enough opportunities to get back into the game but just could not finish. hoever, we had no subs and some of us had to play a full game tired or injured was not easy.. Well done guys, given the circumstances.
MOTM - Mani - not easy to get past but also because has the most colourful vocabulary i have ever heard.. haha
ParamKis - 4
Our first defeat, but fully undeserved because we realy played well and deserved better. We let the other team take shots from outside the box, which proved to be our undoing. we had enough opportunities to get back into the game but just could not finish. hoever, we had no subs and some of us had to play a full game tired or injured was not easy.. Well done guys, given the circumstances.
MOTM - Mani - not easy to get past but also because has the most colourful vocabulary i have ever heard.. haha
The nite game.. another victory!
TVasantham - 3 (Devarajan 2, Prakash)
Sembawang Rangers - 1
Depfort Field/ 19 Feb
A game we should have wrapped up but made it difficult for ourselves by leaving ourselves exposed at the back. our finishing needs polishing as well. We must have hit the bar at least 3x, with gajay coming close twice. Finally it took our energizer bunny (deva) to do the job. But kudos to a fantastic double save from sasi because that kept us in the game!
MOTM - Sasi (for his saves) and Deva (for being an energizer bunny)
AND WE HAVE NEW JERSEYS>> YIPEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
Sembawang Rangers - 1
Depfort Field/ 19 Feb
A game we should have wrapped up but made it difficult for ourselves by leaving ourselves exposed at the back. our finishing needs polishing as well. We must have hit the bar at least 3x, with gajay coming close twice. Finally it took our energizer bunny (deva) to do the job. But kudos to a fantastic double save from sasi because that kept us in the game!
MOTM - Sasi (for his saves) and Deva (for being an energizer bunny)
AND WE HAVE NEW JERSEYS>> YIPEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
2009 - 'New Season' begins.. With a thrashing!
TVasantham - 8 (Saravanan Ayavoo 4, Elamaran, Rush, Anand, Prakash)
Gooners FC - 0
Venue: Anderson Secondary/ 31 JanA routine destruction of the official Arsenal Fan Club, by none other than the Arse fan himself Mr Sara Ayavoo!a brilliant display of attacking football and skill by us. Mr Ayavoo was easily the man of the match - running at the defence, making opportunities and finishing brilliantly. A great game by the defence as well, ganesh had little to do. a fantastic way to start the 2009 season guys!
MOTM - AYAVOOOOOOOO!!!
Gooners FC - 0
Venue: Anderson Secondary/ 31 JanA routine destruction of the official Arsenal Fan Club, by none other than the Arse fan himself Mr Sara Ayavoo!a brilliant display of attacking football and skill by us. Mr Ayavoo was easily the man of the match - running at the defence, making opportunities and finishing brilliantly. A great game by the defence as well, ganesh had little to do. a fantastic way to start the 2009 season guys!
MOTM - AYAVOOOOOOOO!!!
Sunday, December 7, 2008
games
Team Vasantham - 3 (vinod 2, Saravanan Ayavoo)
Vietnam Singpore - 3
A game that we should have won but horrendous defensive mistakes!! and that open goaL miss!.....tsk tsk...
MOTM - Blondie & Vinod
Manchester United Fan Club - 5
Team Vasantham - 1 (mani)
We were making too many unforced errors and it seems to me that without david, we always suffer in defence!! only when he came in the second half did we start playing well.. need to kick about more guys!
MOTM - David
Vietnam Singpore - 3
A game that we should have won but horrendous defensive mistakes!! and that open goaL miss!.....tsk tsk...
MOTM - Blondie & Vinod
Manchester United Fan Club - 5
Team Vasantham - 1 (mani)
We were making too many unforced errors and it seems to me that without david, we always suffer in defence!! only when he came in the second half did we start playing well.. need to kick about more guys!
MOTM - David
Saturday, September 6, 2008
New Jersey Order and Number
Hi guys
as we have a proper set of regular players i think we need to make ourselves a set of jerseys and make the orange our 'away' and the blue our '3rd'. I need your feedback on the numbers and names behind. First come first served! the numbers confirmed so far are -
Elamaran 8
The rest please comment on this same blog. deadline 25 Sep.
as we have a proper set of regular players i think we need to make ourselves a set of jerseys and make the orange our 'away' and the blue our '3rd'. I need your feedback on the numbers and names behind. First come first served! the numbers confirmed so far are -
Elamaran 8
The rest please comment on this same blog. deadline 25 Sep.
a lesson to be learnt in defeat!
Team Vasantham - 2 (Subaish, Ananth)
Tampines Boys - 6
Well.. finally a thrashing.. on the wrong side! i think the referee (who was quite obviously a good friend of the opponent) looked to favour them in most decisions. But still we should have closed the game when we were 2-1 up as we did not have players. Some of us lost composure and were more looking forward to whack them rather than play our game. We don't need to win every game guys but we do not need to lose like this. We always have to play to whistle and look to score and not look to get revenge.. Selvam our GK and Subaish played well and Ananth played his heart out.. but to no avail.. I strained my calf muscle and looking to be out for at least a month.The bright spark of the game?.. being able to play alongside the legend that is R Suriamurthi.. Thanks to kathir and sivaram for bringing him. He created most of our chances down the left in the later part of the first half. What a player! For those who attended the jeanz opening instead of coming for the game.. Thanks!!!
MOTM - Selvam (without whom the scoreline would have been quite 'memorable'!!)
Tampines Boys - 6
Well.. finally a thrashing.. on the wrong side! i think the referee (who was quite obviously a good friend of the opponent) looked to favour them in most decisions. But still we should have closed the game when we were 2-1 up as we did not have players. Some of us lost composure and were more looking forward to whack them rather than play our game. We don't need to win every game guys but we do not need to lose like this. We always have to play to whistle and look to score and not look to get revenge.. Selvam our GK and Subaish played well and Ananth played his heart out.. but to no avail.. I strained my calf muscle and looking to be out for at least a month.The bright spark of the game?.. being able to play alongside the legend that is R Suriamurthi.. Thanks to kathir and sivaram for bringing him. He created most of our chances down the left in the later part of the first half. What a player! For those who attended the jeanz opening instead of coming for the game.. Thanks!!!
MOTM - Selvam (without whom the scoreline would have been quite 'memorable'!!)
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
A fantastic game and outing!
Team Vasantham - 6 (Deva, Rush 2, Kajay, Ramesh, Naresh)
Rounders Rangers - 2
A brilliant stadium, watched by actual supporters, and a scintillating display by our guys.. One of our best games this year and we could have been winners by double digits. Terrific off-the-ball movement and intricate passing with explosive shooting. I must say that the move of the match was when prakash went past the whole midfield shifted to the right and sent in a swinging cross that i threw myself at.. but a great save by their goalkeeper. Could have been goal of the season.. sigh! but naresh is scoring goal of the season every game. Naresh captained the side on his birthday and nearly scored. the dinner after that was a real bonding session and a great get-together.. we should do it more often. Sara promised to come and didnt turn up, and as such will buy the drinks the next time! Enjoy the holidays all!
MOTM - Welcome back Mr Ian Rush!
Sunday, August 3, 2008
reaaaallllly HOTTTT!!! no more 3pm games!!
Team Vasantham - 3 (ananth 2, prakash)
Vietnam NUS Team - 2
it was a game we were controlling comfortably, then things went heywire!! first the weather was like 36degress, we started the game with onl 10players, then first injury, made us 9, then became 10 after kajay came in, became 10 again after mani's injury.. but to win wih just 10men in sweltering heat was an achievement. kudos to all the players who managed to hold on despite an onslaught from the fit vietnamese...(just couldnt take the incessant talking!). I should have put away the clear opportunity, sorry guys. But a brilliant defensive display by kathir, gary, mani, naresh, kajay and selvam as well as sasi. welcome back ananth.. two well taken goals!
MOTM - tie between ananth and Gary
Vietnam NUS Team - 2
it was a game we were controlling comfortably, then things went heywire!! first the weather was like 36degress, we started the game with onl 10players, then first injury, made us 9, then became 10 after kajay came in, became 10 again after mani's injury.. but to win wih just 10men in sweltering heat was an achievement. kudos to all the players who managed to hold on despite an onslaught from the fit vietnamese...(just couldnt take the incessant talking!). I should have put away the clear opportunity, sorry guys. But a brilliant defensive display by kathir, gary, mani, naresh, kajay and selvam as well as sasi. welcome back ananth.. two well taken goals!
MOTM - tie between ananth and Gary
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Game at Bowen on 19 Jul
Team Vasantham - 8 (Maran, Blondie, Naresh, Vinodh 2, Prakash, Kajay, Yang)
ITE West Boys - 1
We were on a non-stop assault on them from the word 'go' and this was what we lacked in the previous game. Ramesh performmance at the middle was exemplary as wel as Naresh.. If not for their goalkeeper and we spurning chance at chance. All goals were fantastic including kajay straight from the corner flag, and chin yang's back flick. Wel done guys..
MOTM- Ramesh
ITE West Boys - 1
We were on a non-stop assault on them from the word 'go' and this was what we lacked in the previous game. Ramesh performmance at the middle was exemplary as wel as Naresh.. If not for their goalkeeper and we spurning chance at chance. All goals were fantastic including kajay straight from the corner flag, and chin yang's back flick. Wel done guys..
MOTM- Ramesh
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Game at Yio Chu Kang
Team Vasantham - 7 (Kajay, Saravanan Ayavoo 2, Vinodh 2, Maran, Sasi)
Holy Innocents' High Sch U16 - 2
A game that was supposed to be a walk in the park became a bit complicated because we did not take it seriously enough. Some of our players were walking after losing the ball, we were laughing and enjoying banter DURING THE GAME and kept on making silly mistakes.. if it were tougher opponents, we could have been slaughtered. In the end, i felt the scoreline did not do justice to the tenacity and hardwork displayed by the young boys against us.. they did not give us time on the ball and closed us down.. cmon guys, we need to play to our strengths and forget about the opponents, we need to ponder over the fact that we conceded 2 goals against 13-16 year olds, even though the field is to be blamed too.
MOTM - Prakash (.. but to be fair, i think it is the whole holy innocents' high team who refused to give up)
Kudos also to saravanan ayavoo for making good on his promise to score and catch up with the rest of the goal-scorers.. but still some way to go bro, vinod is now 13 goals!!
Holy Innocents' High Sch U16 - 2
A game that was supposed to be a walk in the park became a bit complicated because we did not take it seriously enough. Some of our players were walking after losing the ball, we were laughing and enjoying banter DURING THE GAME and kept on making silly mistakes.. if it were tougher opponents, we could have been slaughtered. In the end, i felt the scoreline did not do justice to the tenacity and hardwork displayed by the young boys against us.. they did not give us time on the ball and closed us down.. cmon guys, we need to play to our strengths and forget about the opponents, we need to ponder over the fact that we conceded 2 goals against 13-16 year olds, even though the field is to be blamed too.
MOTM - Prakash (.. but to be fair, i think it is the whole holy innocents' high team who refused to give up)
Kudos also to saravanan ayavoo for making good on his promise to score and catch up with the rest of the goal-scorers.. but still some way to go bro, vinod is now 13 goals!!
Sunday, June 29, 2008
fun nite out!
10guys from our team spend the nite of the euro final playing futsal at Fico Sports Hub and then traveliing to Serangoon Garden to watvch the game.. had a really fun time guys, though tiring to turn up in school just 2hrs after.. looking forwrd to more such outings... and fantastic performance from Deva as goalkeeper!!! hehe...
Monday, June 9, 2008
An All-out attacking performance!
Jun 7 2008 - Bedok Green Sec
Team Vasantham - 7 (Vinod 2, Blondie, Naresh, Ramesh, Prakash, Maran)
Blue Knights - 3
It was one of the most attacking performance ever, the ball always being moved forward and wingers running at the opponent defence until they were totally ravaged. Fantastic performance by one and all, including the defence as all three goals were a result of the referee giving them free gifts.. But for me the combined passing between anand, kathir, tarzan, naresh and blondie that led to the 30 metre missile by Naresh was the best goal!! and kudos to blondie because he was unstoppable on the day, running, creating, shooting and of course scoring. Have to also thank you guys for making sure i scored.. hehe.. missed too many anyway!! Vinod is now our top scorer but Blondie is close behind.. Saravanan ayavoo - please catch up!!
MOTM - Blondie - left the field to applause.. even by the opponents!!
Team Vasantham - 7 (Vinod 2, Blondie, Naresh, Ramesh, Prakash, Maran)
Blue Knights - 3
It was one of the most attacking performance ever, the ball always being moved forward and wingers running at the opponent defence until they were totally ravaged. Fantastic performance by one and all, including the defence as all three goals were a result of the referee giving them free gifts.. But for me the combined passing between anand, kathir, tarzan, naresh and blondie that led to the 30 metre missile by Naresh was the best goal!! and kudos to blondie because he was unstoppable on the day, running, creating, shooting and of course scoring. Have to also thank you guys for making sure i scored.. hehe.. missed too many anyway!! Vinod is now our top scorer but Blondie is close behind.. Saravanan ayavoo - please catch up!!
MOTM - Blondie - left the field to applause.. even by the opponents!!
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Top Scorer
For the benefit of our players (esp Sara ..hehe ) we would like to congratulate the top3 scorers so far:
Blondie (Kanna) - 9 goals
Vinod - 7 goals
Ananth - 5 goalsKeep it up guys!!
Blondie (Kanna) - 9 goals
Vinod - 7 goals
Ananth - 5 goalsKeep it up guys!!
Monday, May 19, 2008
Win but...
Team Vasantham - 5 (Naresh, Ananth (pen), Blondie 2, Rashid)
Woodlands Reds - 3
Even though it was an awesome comeback after being down 2-0 then 3-1, the fact that we fought against the referee and amongst ourselves made it a game to forget! As leader of the team (If i may say so), i am disappointed with the reactions of some of our players with the decisions made by the referee. True enuf, most of them were dubious decisions and some were downright riduculous like the goal he allowed and then disallowed after being pressured by the opponent. C'mon guys, we were the better team by far and did not need those decisions in order to win!! We had 21 shots at goal and 5 goals and the opponents 3 shots and 3 goals!! the way we were playing we could have gone double digit.. but the point is our behaviour towards the referee was unforgivable and the first time in so many months we have existed as a team i had to call the field manager and referee manager to apologise.. If we had been in the lead, we would have accepted the referee's wrong decisions and played on. I realise that losing is not easy to take, but the moment we only think of winning, we stop having fun and people who play for fun would stop coming. I have been playing and watching football for a long time and have faced some strange refereeing. We see some strange refereeing in Champions league games or EPL games bv Qualified Proffessional FIFA referees.. if teams like chelsea, man U, liverpool, arsenal can take wrong decisions and play on, i don't see why we can't.. Remeber guys, we are a team with a reputation.. lets not make it a bad one!
Other than this flaw, it was a fantastic passing game, with the goal of the season by our guest player Naresh who practically beat 9 players before he scored. Ananth was a fantastic revelation in the middle of the field and created almost all the goals. Good play by blondie, kanna, kathir, selvam and jag as well. Saravanan ayavoo ran his heart out and i promised him that i would not talk about his three misses, especially the one that i created for him infront of goal with only the goalkeeper to beat.. (Which he missed by the way.. hehe)
MOTM - Ananth - superb midfield display and created all the goals single-handedly.
Woodlands Reds - 3
Even though it was an awesome comeback after being down 2-0 then 3-1, the fact that we fought against the referee and amongst ourselves made it a game to forget! As leader of the team (If i may say so), i am disappointed with the reactions of some of our players with the decisions made by the referee. True enuf, most of them were dubious decisions and some were downright riduculous like the goal he allowed and then disallowed after being pressured by the opponent. C'mon guys, we were the better team by far and did not need those decisions in order to win!! We had 21 shots at goal and 5 goals and the opponents 3 shots and 3 goals!! the way we were playing we could have gone double digit.. but the point is our behaviour towards the referee was unforgivable and the first time in so many months we have existed as a team i had to call the field manager and referee manager to apologise.. If we had been in the lead, we would have accepted the referee's wrong decisions and played on. I realise that losing is not easy to take, but the moment we only think of winning, we stop having fun and people who play for fun would stop coming. I have been playing and watching football for a long time and have faced some strange refereeing. We see some strange refereeing in Champions league games or EPL games bv Qualified Proffessional FIFA referees.. if teams like chelsea, man U, liverpool, arsenal can take wrong decisions and play on, i don't see why we can't.. Remeber guys, we are a team with a reputation.. lets not make it a bad one!
Other than this flaw, it was a fantastic passing game, with the goal of the season by our guest player Naresh who practically beat 9 players before he scored. Ananth was a fantastic revelation in the middle of the field and created almost all the goals. Good play by blondie, kanna, kathir, selvam and jag as well. Saravanan ayavoo ran his heart out and i promised him that i would not talk about his three misses, especially the one that i created for him infront of goal with only the goalkeeper to beat.. (Which he missed by the way.. hehe)
MOTM - Ananth - superb midfield display and created all the goals single-handedly.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
A strong performance!
Bishan eleven - 3
Team Vasantham - 1 (Yang)
It was a game that we should be proud about.. we played against an excellent team and nearly got a result. After going into an early lead, we defended superbly - David, Jag, Gary, Dass, Sasi and Kathir were outstanding.. however we must understand that everybody must be given a chance to play and i apologise for my intentional dismantling of the defence. Even then, i felt that we gave them a good game and nearly scored.. prakash hitting the post, me missing the penalty and the follow-up (Sorry guys.. will never give vinod grief concerning his miss anymore!). A performance we can be proud of...
MOTM - The entire defence including our superb keeper SASI (Want to be permenant Keeper or not?.. hehe)
Team Vasantham - 1 (Yang)
It was a game that we should be proud about.. we played against an excellent team and nearly got a result. After going into an early lead, we defended superbly - David, Jag, Gary, Dass, Sasi and Kathir were outstanding.. however we must understand that everybody must be given a chance to play and i apologise for my intentional dismantling of the defence. Even then, i felt that we gave them a good game and nearly scored.. prakash hitting the post, me missing the penalty and the follow-up (Sorry guys.. will never give vinod grief concerning his miss anymore!). A performance we can be proud of...
MOTM - The entire defence including our superb keeper SASI (Want to be permenant Keeper or not?.. hehe)
Monday, April 21, 2008
First Defeat... but
Northeast Blacks - 4
Team Vasantham - 2 (Blondie, Vinod)
Even though we lost our first game this year, i think there are more pertinent things we have to think about.. first of all, we must realise that the important thing about playing is not winning, it is communicating as a team and enjoying ourselves. the moment we do not have fun, there is no point playing at all. mistakes are part and parcel of the game and even if we win, there is no trophy to be won.. jsut the friendly banter between brothers. Can we imagine playing WITH each other when we can't stand one another.. that is unthinkable. Come on guys.. lets get together and overcome this!
Next game - Saturday 26April 2008 3pm at Bowen Sec
Team Vasantham - 2 (Blondie, Vinod)
Even though we lost our first game this year, i think there are more pertinent things we have to think about.. first of all, we must realise that the important thing about playing is not winning, it is communicating as a team and enjoying ourselves. the moment we do not have fun, there is no point playing at all. mistakes are part and parcel of the game and even if we win, there is no trophy to be won.. jsut the friendly banter between brothers. Can we imagine playing WITH each other when we can't stand one another.. that is unthinkable. Come on guys.. lets get together and overcome this!
Next game - Saturday 26April 2008 3pm at Bowen Sec
Thursday, April 10, 2008
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