{"id":10431,"date":"2013-01-26T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/hearts-great-lamptey-accuses-club-of-bribery-in-1971-triumph\/"},"modified":"2013-01-26T17:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T17:34:00","slug":"hearts-great-lamptey-accuses-club-of-bribery-in-1971-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/26\/hearts-great-lamptey-accuses-club-of-bribery-in-1971-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearts Great Lamptey Accuses Club Of Bribery In 1971 Triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<p><span class=\"small-txt c14\">Posted On Saturday, 26th January 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<div readability=\"67\">\n<div id=\"attachment_211286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter c15\" readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-211286\" title=\"Peter Lamptey claims Hearts bought their victory in 1971 league\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/01e4ims-Hearts-bought-their-victory-in-1971-league.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Lamptey claims Hearts bought their victory in 1971 league<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>By Akyereko Frimpong Manson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hearts of Oak legend Peter Lamptey has revealed the Rainbow club played a match of convenience with Great Olympics in the last game of the season to win the 1971 league title.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hearts defeated Great Olympics 5-3 in the last game of the 1971 Ghanaian Premier League season to win the league title.<\/p>\n<p>They\u00a0were chasing after just their third league title since 1958 and had big rivals Asante Kotoko with just a point shy of their 43 in second place.<\/p>\n<p>And a slip against Olympics at the Accra Sports Stadium and a Kotoko win at Susubiribi could dash their dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Lamptey who became the first player to win the golden shoe award in the Ghanaian Premier League in 1973 with 21 goals a seasons after joining Hearts from Olympics, claims Hearts negotiated the outcome of the game with Olympics officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHearts knew defeat against Olympics could cost them the title so they came to Olympics officials to negotiate the game,\u201d he told Asempa FM\u2019s Cobby Jones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard about it and didn\u2019t want to feature in the game but Olympics officials tricked me by asking me to go home and bring my other boot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I came back, they had already done what they wanted to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went into the game and the Olympics keeper allowed in three cheap goals and I equalised all three goals and when they got to find out I wasn\u2019t happy with the game, the coach replaced me.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana Football Association could institute an investigation into the claims made by the former Black Stars striker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Posted On Saturday, 26th January 2013 Peter Lamptey claims Hearts bought their victory in 1971 league By Akyereko Frimpong Manson Hearts of Oak legend Peter Lamptey has revealed the Rainbow club played a match of convenience with Great Olympics in the last game of the season to win the 1971 league title. Hearts defeated Great Olympics 5-3 in the last game of the 1971 Ghanaian Premier League season to win the league title. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}