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Bosso face PSL sanctions

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CASTLE Lager Premier Soccer League giants Highlanders face a heavy fine by the Premier Soccer League (PSL) following incidents of crowd trouble after their league match against Chicken Inn on Sunday which ended 1-1 at Barbourfields Stadium on Sunday.

CASTLE Lager Premier Soccer League giants Highlanders face a heavy fine by the Premier Soccer League (PSL) following incidents of crowd trouble after their league match against Chicken Inn on Sunday which ended 1-1 at Barbourfields Stadium on Sunday.

BY FORTUNE MBELE

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Highlanders’ fans from the Soweto end and eastern stands invaded the pitch after referee Nkosikhona Moyo ended the match and fought running battles with the police.

Moyo was mobbed by both Chicken Inn and Highlanders players after he blew to end the match, with the former arguing that Tafadzwa Kutinyu’s goal should have stood.

Kutinyu scored at the stroke of full-time and the referee blew to end the match, with the Chicken Inn players expecting him to signal a goal.

Both clubs’ coaches, Erol Akbay of Highlanders and Rahman Gumbo of Chicken Inn confronted the match-official, as players from both clubs remonstrated.

Highlanders’ players protested that Kutinyu should have been flagged for offside.

The police were outnumbered by the hooligans, who assaulted the match official and had to scurry for cover.

Order 31.1.13 of the PSL rules and regulations states it is an offence for a club when, “Its supporters misbehave in any manner whatsoever, inside or outside a ground before, during or after a match, no matter on which ground the match is played. Without derogating from the generality of what constitutes misbehaviours on the part of supporters, the following are specifically declared to be acts of misbehaviour: 1. Invasion or attempted invasion of the field of play, save for reasons of crowd safety; 2. Causing the abandonment or attempting to cause the abandonment of a match; 3. Throwing or attempting to throw missiles, bottled and other objects, whether potentially harmful or dangerous or not, on to the pitch, or at any person; 5. Acts of violence or attempted acts of violence against anyone at the game; 8. Maliciously damaging or attempting to damage any property at the ground.”

The onus is on the club to prove that the misbehaving spectators were not its supporters.

Order 31.1.15 states that it is an offence if the club “fails to protect match officials against acts, attempted acts of violence or any other form of abuse before, during or after the match.”

Chicken Inn is also set to face the music over their players’ hounding of match officials.

PSL chief executive officer, Kennedy Ndebele said they will only act after going through the match officials’ reports.

Harare giants Dynamos were fined $3 500 and were ordered to play their home game against Ngezi Platinum Stars in an empty stadium by the PSL disciplinary committee in June after they found guilty of their fans’ violent conduct after losing 0-1 to FC Platinum at Rufaro in May.

However, Dynamos, appealed the decision to have their game against Ngezi Platinum played in an empty stadium.