This was the penultimate game of the 1968/69 season. The league title was won and lost and the Club was more concerned about giving first-team experience to its teenage players, in readiness for the much anticipated third stab at the elusive first championship title. This game is of precious little historical significance. Strangely, however, it is one of the most vividly recalled matches by the players that took part in it. 

It so happens that Sannat Lions were winless at the time, commanded little or no respect around the league and doomed to a return to the second division from where they would not emerge until the Blacks had dusted off on the minor matter of winning everything, repeatedly for five years. This match put on display the two sides of the arrogance of a team on the verge of great things. In the first half was in evidence the dark side: over-confidence, cockiness, selfish play, loose marking and three goals conceded to a team that would score a total of eight for the whole season. In the second-half was on show the bright side: a self-assured display of a team desperate to make up the three goal deficit to salvage the Club's pride. What separated these two sides was a half-time outburst by young coach, Peter Caruana that in no-uncertain terms brought home to the impressionable young Blacks that a performance of that sort was not acceptable, no matter how insignificant the match. Peter Caruana allegedly greeted the players returning for the half-way break with a volley of oranges and summarily banned a trio of regular old-timers from entry into the dressing room. Peter's ire was heightened by the alarming fact that Sannat had manufactured their lead playing against a very strong wind. The Blacks faced the prospects of spending the entire second half pinned in their own half by a Lions' side riding a favourable wind.

Sannat's first goal was scored in the opening minute of the match from an indirect free kick that should not have counted because it was not touched after it had been taken. They doubled the score on the half-hour mark. They went three up after a defensive blunder on the stroke of half-time. Goals from Vincent Cutajar from the spot, Toni Cauchi and captain Noe Zerafa completed the comeback. No other Blacks side to this very day has come back from three goals down to salvage a draw. One wonders whether the Blacks' reputation for playing better against the wind was also earned on this day.

More importantly, Peter Caruana established firm control of the hearts and minds of his side. Even more significantly, the Blacks' legendary discipline at the back and killer instinct up front were brought out. From this point on even the most tame of preparatory or gap-filling of friendly matches was approached in the same fashion as a cup final or a championship decider. Never was an occasion let slip by again to fill a hapless opponent's net with goals.