{"id":148848,"date":"2015-09-04T15:48:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T15:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=148848"},"modified":"2015-09-04T15:48:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T15:48:54","slug":"angry-kotoko-fans-urge-boycott-of-league-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=148848","title":{"rendered":"Angry Kotoko fans urge boycott of league matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Angry supporters of premier league club, Kumasi Asante Kotoko, in Nima, Accra, say they are contemplating a massive demonstration against the Ghana Football Association, GFA, over the<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/09\/01\/kotoko-faces-relegation-after-losing-points-to-hearts\/\" target=\"_blank\">deduction of points<\/a><\/strong><\/span> from the team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The supporters say the football governing body\u2019s Disciplinary Committee has not treated the team fairly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Disciplinary Committee of the FA on Tuesday deducted six points from Kotoko for fielding an unqualified player in its league match against Accra Hearts of Oak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;sAZUaNq58J4YmAQoll0JvbagdSrqg6W7&#8243;]Although the club has filed an appeal against the ruling, which has put them in a relegation zone and instead benefited their rivals Hearts of Oak, the club\u2019s supporters at Nima say they will embark on a protest march against the GFA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an interview with <strong>Citi News,<\/strong> the Chairman of the Circle 55 Supporters\u2019 Union at Nima, Abdul Razak Mumuni, said they have also asked the management of the team to boycott the remaining two games of the premier league until the outcome of the appeal is determined.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u201cWe have advised them not to play until the appeal committee decides on the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angry supporters of premier league club, Kumasi Asante Kotoko, in Nima, Accra, say they are contemplating a massive demonstration against the Ghana Football Association, GFA, over the deduction of points from the team. The supporters say the football governing body\u2019s Disciplinary Committee has not treated the team fairly. The Disciplinary Committee of the FA on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":148927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-148848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/148927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}