{"id":378,"date":"2012-03-09T03:30:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T03:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=378"},"modified":"2012-03-09T03:46:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T03:46:57","slug":"let-the-12th-man-make-his-presence-felt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/let-the-12th-man-make-his-presence-felt\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the 12th man make his presence felt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/gm-fans3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now that all the negativity and infighting has been removed and the players appear refreshed, it is time for Gor Mahia to face its destiny on Saturday as they play Ferroviario de Maputo in the return leg. Not in a million years did even the most skeptical fan think that the club would find itself in this situation. Mistakes were made, there was poor planning and the technical bench was in dissarray. Whereas it is too late to change the past, the club still has its destiny in its hands.<\/p>\n<p>None of us really know whether the technical issues have been resolved. It does not help that the new technical bench has had only two days to prepare the team. Still it is not time to loose hope.\u00a0 It was 1988 when Gor Mahia faced LPRC Oilers of Liberia. A troubled Gor Mahia had just parted ways with coach Jack Johnson. They played poor, disjointed in the 1st leg at Nyayo stadium and we lucky to escape with a 0-0 draw. As the Liberians celebrated after the game, dissilusioned fans left and wrote off the team. However Stand in coach Mohammed Kheri was seconded to assist the team in the return leg and somehow Kogalo picked themselves up to win the second leg 3-1 in Monrovia.<\/p>\n<p>The moral of that story is that Anything is possible in football. As new coach Bobby Ogolla has said today, the spirit of Kogalo is indomitable. Therefore the 12th man must show up in large numbers to cheer the team. Let us get behind the team from kickoff to final whistle.\u00a0 Fans have a tendency to loose patience with the team. Saturday is not the day to loose patience. The team has only had 3 days under the new coach. Even if no goals have been scored in the 1st half, fans must continue to cheer. Yes it is possible to score 3 goals in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Let us cheer throughout and turn the stadium into a hellhole for the visitors. So this supporter urges the rest of the 12th man to show up in large numbers on Saturday to carry the team. Let us make home ground advantage count.<\/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\/let-the-12th-man-make-his-presence-felt\/\"\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>Now that all the negativity and infighting has been removed and the players appear refreshed, it is time for Gor<\/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-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","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=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}