{"id":314250,"date":"2016-01-05T14:09:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T14:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/kotoko-must-be-punished-ob-amoah\/"},"modified":"2016-01-05T14:09:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T14:09:48","slug":"kotoko-must-be-punished-ob-amoah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2016\/01\/05\/kotoko-must-be-punished-ob-amoah\/","title":{"rendered":"Kotoko must be punished  &#8211; OB Amoah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\" readability=\"56.853360488798\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><br \/>\n<a name=\"top\" id=\"top\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Tuesday,  5 January 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>sportscrusader.com<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"date\" style=\"display:none\">2016-01-05<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"Kotoko-must-be-punished-OB-Amoah-405340?gallery=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/58261636.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ob Moah\" title=\"Ob Moah\" width=\"295\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><span class=\"image_caption\">Former Deputy Sports Minister O.B Amoah<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Former Deputy Sports Minister O.B Amoah wants Asante Kotoko sanctioned for selling out a fictitious game against FK Jagodina on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Kotok0o hosted the Serbian club in Kumasi to climax their 80th-anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n<p>The match organized by Pacific Football Ghana Limited was originally scheduled to pitch Kotoko against Greek club Veria FC.<\/p>\n<p>Veria FC were settled on after another European side, Petrolul withdrew from the international friendly.<\/p>\n<p>The match organizers, however, had to replace Veria with Jagodina days before the game over congested fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>Jagodina, however, showed up in Kumasi with only 11 players and were forced to employ the services of some local players as substitutes.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the Kotoko fans feel short-changed by the level of organization of the game and the strength of the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Former Deputy Sports Minister O.B Amoah is now calling on the Ghana FA to investigate and sanction Kotoko for delivering a fake match to the fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, GFA must investigate this matter,\u201d the Member of Parliament for Aburi-Nsawam told Asempa FM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a serious issue. The fact that GFA has sanctioned the match doesn\u2019t mean you can do anything you like.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be setting a bad precedence when we let this thing stand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The match organizer explained travel challenges was the reason behind the arrival of just 11 players in the Jagodina contingent.<\/p>\n<p>Their kits for the games including jerseys and boost, according to the match organizer, was also held up in Turkey where the team had transited.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers thus had to buy new sets of jerseys and boost for the team to play the match at an unknown market in Kumasi rumoured to be in Kejetia.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 28 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Sports News of Tuesday, 5 January 2016 Source: sportscrusader.com 2016-01-05 Former Deputy Sports Minister O.B Amoah Former Deputy Sports Minister O.B Amoah wants Asante Kotoko sanctioned for selling out a fictitious game against FK Jagodina on Sunday. Kotok0o hosted the Serbian club in Kumasi to climax their 80th-anniversary celebration. The match organized by Pacific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kotoko must be punished - OB Amoah - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2016\/01\/05\/kotoko-must-be-punished-ob-amoah\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Kotoko must be punished - OB Amoah - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"[ad_1] Sports News of Tuesday, 5 January 2016 Source: sportscrusader.com 2016-01-05 Former Deputy Sports Minister O.B Amoah Former Deputy Sports Minister O.B Amoah wants Asante Kotoko sanctioned for selling out a fictitious game against FK Jagodina on Sunday. 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