{"id":2998,"date":"2013-09-12T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2013-09-12T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T17:55:00","slug":"fkf-decision-upheld-by-kpl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/fkf-decision-upheld-by-kpl\/","title":{"rendered":"FKF decision upheld by KPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>courtesy of futaa.com<\/p>\n<p>The decision by Football Kenya Federation (FKF) to award Gor Mahia their abandoned match against SoNy Sugar has been upheld.\u00a0<b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p>This was after a joint meeting between and the Kenyan Premier League (KPL) Limited held on Thursday 12\u00a0September 2013.<\/p>\n<p><b>Opponents\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n<p>SoNy has been given three days to lodge an appeal against the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>-That Sony Sugar F.C is entitled to make an appeal if they so wish to the Appeals Board within 72 hours of this joint communiqu\u00e9, says the ruling in part.<\/p>\n<p>The 1 September match went smoothly until the 85<sup>th<\/sup> minute when Gor Mahia\u2019s David Owino scored to level the scores at 2-2.<\/p>\n<p><b>Different rulings<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Later, KPL found none of the two sides liable for the abandonment and set a date for replay.<\/p>\n<p>However, FKF came out to blame SoNy for the abandonment and awarded Gor the win, a decision that KPL protested.<\/p>\n<p>A communique to media houses points out that the two offices are not at loggerheads, as may appear.<\/p>\n<p>-The relationship between FKF and KPL remains strong and cordial and that the two will continue working together to cement further this relationship for the good of the game.<\/p>\n<p><b>Standings \u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n<p>After the confirmation, Gor have opened their lead against second-placed Sofapaka FC to eight points, having now totaled 44 points.<\/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-decision-upheld-by-kpl\/\"\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 The decision by Football Kenya Federation (FKF) to award Gor Mahia their abandoned match against SoNy Sugar<\/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-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","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=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}