{"id":2979,"date":"2013-09-09T17:28:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T17:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2013-09-09T17:30:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T17:30:32","slug":"fkf-awards-abandoned-match-to-gor-mahia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/fkf-awards-abandoned-match-to-gor-mahia\/","title":{"rendered":"FKF awards abandoned match to Gor Mahia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/kasaya.jpg\" width=\"435\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of futaa.com<\/p>\n<p>Football Kenya Federation has ruled that the abandoned match between SoNy Sugar FC and Gor Mahia be awarded to Gor Mahia.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the Press, FKF asserts that Sony Sugar FC is squarely liable for the abandonment based on the fact that its player and official attacked the 1st assistant referee.<\/p>\n<p><b>Below is an excerpt from the ruling&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Football Kenya Federation is in receipt of the match commissioner\u2019s report, the referees report and a copy of a letter from the CEO KPL dated 3<sup>rd<\/sup> September 2013 and addressed to the secretary of Sony Sugar FC and Gor Mahia FC respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The federation has studied and analyzed the facts pertaining to this match and has established that:<\/p>\n<p>1. The match was stopped in the 84<sup>th<\/sup> after Gor Mahia FC scored their second goal.<\/p>\n<p>2. The 1<sup>st<\/sup> Assistant Referee was assaulted by a player and an official of Sony Sugar FC.<\/p>\n<p>3. There was intervention by the police to control the crowds.<\/p>\n<p>4. The match was stopped for 28 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In view of the stated facts the Federation hereby invokes rule 3.4(b), 3.5(c) and 3.8, Rules of Kenyan Football (1998) and finds Sony Sugar FC culpable of causing the abandonment of the match no.171 and subsequent abandonment of the match.<\/p>\n<p>Our own investigations further reveal that the center referee was assaulted and the same has not been documented in his report or that of the match commissioner.<\/p>\n<p><b>GMT admonished\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The collapse of the perimeter fence in the view of the Federation is an after effect of the stoppage and subsequent abandonment of the match.<\/p>\n<p>The Federation also reprimands Mr.\u00a0 GMT Ottieno for interfering and skewing the decision of the match officials in calling off the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026The Federation is closely monitoring and safe guarding the integrity of the Premier League by ensuring fairplay prevails for the good of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Awendo-stadium tie was brought to a stop after Gor Mahia leveled in the 85<sup>th<\/sup> minute bringing the game two 2-2 draw.Football Kenya Federation has ruled that the abandoned match between SoNy Sugar FC and Gor Mahia be awarded to Gor Mahia.\u00a0<b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the Press, FKF asserts that Sony Sugar FC is squarely liable for the abandonment based on the fact that its player and official attacked the 1st assistant referee<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/fkf-awards-abandoned-match-to-gor-mahia\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>courtesy of futaa.com Football Kenya Federation has ruled that the abandoned match between SoNy Sugar FC and Gor Mahia be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}