{"id":1121735,"date":"2022-06-14T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T14:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/14\/there-was-no-sense-joining-kotoko-to-celebrate-title-success\/"},"modified":"2022-06-14T14:21:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T14:21:08","slug":"there-was-no-sense-joining-kotoko-to-celebrate-title-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/14\/there-was-no-sense-joining-kotoko-to-celebrate-title-success\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;There was no sense joining Kotoko to celebrate title success&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Charles Taylor, a Ghanaian football great, has criticised Bernard Don Bortey for attending Asante Kotoko\u2019s victory celebrations.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>After a 3-0 victory over Elmina Sharks in week 33 at the Baba Yara Stadium, the Porcupine Warriors were declared the 2021\/22 Ghana Premier League champions.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Hearts of Oak legend, Don Bortey, attended the festivities of Kotoko\u2019s legends and also hoisted their flag in front of the supporters.<\/p>\n<p>In the opinion of Charles Taylor, who has played for both Hearts and Kotoko, Bortey\u2019s actions were uncalled for, and his transfer to Kotoko was preferable to this one because of the latter\u2019s gain.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I was on both teams, but not Don Bortey. I\u2019m qualified to do so. He\u2019s welcome to come to the stadium and see them, but he\u2019s not allowed to participate in the festivities by raising their flag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko are competitors, it is rude to witness one legend celebrate with the other. In spite of the fact that I was invited to the game and had money provided to me, I was unable to attend because we were playing a legendary game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmankwah Mireku has my full support. He should be ashamed of himself for what he done. There is nothing wrong with praising Asante Kotoko on winning the league, but joining their celebrations wasn\u2019t the finest idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think Hearts of Oak supporters will be forgiving of him if he apologizes for his actions. At least Hearts of Oak benefited from my move to Kotoko, so it\u2019s not like that for Bortey. The celebrations with Kotoko made no sense at all\u201d, he insisted.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Charles Taylor, a Ghanaian football great, has criticised Bernard Don Bortey for attending Asante Kotoko\u2019s victory celebrations. After a 3-0 victory over Elmina Sharks in week 33 at the Baba Yara Stadium, the Porcupine Warriors were declared the 2021\/22 Ghana Premier League champions. Nevertheless, Hearts of Oak legend, Don Bortey, attended the festivities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1121737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[411,2015,16,5722,1704,400],"class_list":["post-1121735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-celebrate","tag-joining","tag-kotoko","tag-sense","tag-success","tag-title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}