2011 -2012 Wah Yan Football League Wrap Up
For those who had not seen SEIKO dramatically beat SCAA by 5 - 4 in the HK Government Stadium some 30 years ago, the same scenario was displayed in this season’s Championship finale. After waiting for almost 10 years, DELAY brilliantly stole the title from five times Champion, FRIENDS, with the same implausible result of 5 - 4. They must have wrongly picked their team nameto wait for all these years!
There was one player from each team, Chu Chun Bong (FRIENDS-WYHK94) and Ng Yik Him (DELAY-WYK00), who scored 4 goals in the match, but DELAY had an additional goal from Wong Ka Lun (WYK00) to seal the winner!
In just 10 minutes during the 1st half, Chu put the ball in DELAY’s net 3 times and it looked as if the match was over. The morale of DELAY fell to hell when the referee gave FRIENDS a free kick and Chu scored once again. However, the referee ruled a technical foul against FRIENDS and the 4th goal was abolished. This marked the turning point of the match. Still wondering what was going on, Wong pull one goal back from the edge of the penalty box for DELAY and thedetermination of the players started to restore. The FRIENDS players continued to mummer for the abolished goal and soon saw Ng scored a stunning goal for DELAY from 20 yards. Shaking, the FRIENDS players were delighted to hear the mid time whistle.
A short while after kick off for the 2nd half, the ball hit the hand of a FRIENDS player in the penalty box and Ng scored a spot kick to cancel out the deficit. The 2 teams played on cautiously and it was goalless for the remaining time with the score standing at 3 – 3.
The older FRIENDS players managed to hang on during the 1st section of extra time but Ng scored his 3rd goal from close range. Similar to most teams in the final minutes, FRIENDS put three strikers in front and Ng took the advantage of FRIENDS’ non defensive back and calmly scored his 4th goal a short while later. The atmosphere turned bad for a while and Karf Chan of FRIENDS was sent off. Chu scored his consolation goal less than a minute later and the referee killed the 2nd section of the extra time in another minute. The Championship goes to DELAY (WYK) with FRIENDS (WYHK) as 1st runners up and HOW TO FIND YOU(WYK) as 2nd runners up.
The Elite winner is YEAR 98, and the 1st and 2nd runners up are WHY ALWAYS WIN and DAI DUI respectively. All three teams are from WYHK. The top scorer award goes to Karf Chan of FRIENDS who scored 10 times in the tournament.
Peter Tang (WYHK78 Football Convenor)