3rd August 2008 Sunday morning and Greats was preparing themselves for their 3rd game of the season against Central Park International by doing warm-up. At the same time, it would be Joker¡¦s very first appearance of the new season after missing the opening 2 games.
It was getting near the kick-off timing and the referee was nowhere to be seen. Based on previous game against Ishkawa, the referee who was late was Joker¡¦s nemesis ¡V Ref Alex aka Dark Knight. Hence, most of the players started wondering if the Dark Knight would turn up for Joker¡¦s first game of the season.
For those who missed out on the famous Joker vs Dark Knight incident, reporter Five would gladly describe what really happened between the 2 of them.
It was 13th July and the crime scene took place at First TPY Sec. Greats was having their playoff game fighting for survival in Div3 and was leading 3-1. With 10 minutes to go, Joker started to do what he does best, committing ¡§crimes¡¨ ¡V robbing and hacking.?
The Dark knight wasn¡¦t impressed by all these, decided to teach Joker a lesson. He gave Joker a yellow card (not his name card) and a stern warning as well. However, with a ¡§Why so serious??¡¨ attitude, Joker somehow was looking for more trouble (getting a red). Seeing this, manager William immediately wanted to take Joker off the game.
Upon knowing it, Dark Knight was delighted and kicked (verbally) Joker off the field. Joker got really upset over it and decided to kick back (not the ref but the ref¡¦s bag) as he walked off. The Dark Knight witnessed the whole thing and was really annoyed and rushed to Joker and gave him a punch. And that¡¦s how it all happened.
So with most of the players speculating that the Dark Knight would be turning up for last Sunday¡¦s game, some started questioning Joker whether he would blow up Dark Knight¡¦s bag this time when he blew his whistle and the Joker¡¦s famous line ¡§Why so serious?¡¨ could be heard as well.
Fortunately, the Dark Knight didn¡¦t showed up and Joker was serious enough in getting his aim (scoring goals instead of crimes)
A moment of genius (or probably insanity??) saw Joker running from left flank, cutting in to the middle and progressed aggressively to the right and cutting back to his left foot for a screamer.
This time round, it¡¦s the ball, not the bazooka that is being blasted into the top corner of the goal.
That goal itself gave Greats a 2-0 lead at half time and was also sufficient for Joker (nominated in Oscar) to be nominated MOM.
Eventually, Greats won Central Park International 4-0.
However, would Joker be playing if the Dark Knight is around???
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