Sir Stamford Raffles' Legion Downs The Outsiders

Season 2012 - League Match 4 - 23 June 2012

Final Score: Mavericks FC 0 Stamford FC 2

KaoPei Hwa Pitch - Mavericks FC were soundly beaten by Stamford FC today, on a hot and blistering afternoon in a match they failed to gain a stranglehold throughout, as they finally lost their first game of the league season. 

Stamford FC, is a team made up of the descendants of the 501st Melayu Regiment of the British Empire formed by the founder of Singapore, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. A British statesman, who was relocated to the bustling Port of Singapore in the 18th century, Sir Stamford Raffles is often described as the "Father of Singapore."

In a very short period of time, Raffles had turned a semi-anarchic trading post into a proper city with some semblance of order. A police force and magistrate was then set up, under British principles. 

The police force was soon to be known, as the 501st Melayu Regiment, with a deep rooted sense of belonging, instilling and upholding the law, and hence, in commemoration of the strife and hard work of Raffles, Stamford Football Club was formed in his name. 

With a history, not many football clubs could match, the members of the 501st Melayu Regiment made a vow on a rain-soaked day in June 1835 in a meeting at Geylang Serai, stating that Stamford Football Club would have a deeply-etched evergreen place in the history of Singapore, and in the hearts of the regiment members over centuries. 

Henceforth, fast forward to today, the team is still going strong.

Mavericks FC were to experience first hand, the dominance of a football team with a deep history, that left the Mavericks players with a bitter taste in their mouths. To cheer things up in the aftermath of the defeat, the team engaged in a team bonding session.

Despite a great team bonding session, working hand in hand to retrieve the two soccer balls over the fenced up area of the pitch involving a boy in a Newcastle jersey, a dustbin, and a couple of cactus plants, Mavericks FC were left in awe, at the sheer resplendence of Sir Stamford Raffles' legion.

 

 

"The history of the world is but the biography of great men."

 

 

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