{"id":3907,"date":"2014-02-11T03:50:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T03:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=3907"},"modified":"2014-02-19T03:04:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T03:04:27","slug":"attendance-was-below-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/attendance-was-below-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Attendance was below expectations."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/gm-celeb-bitam-14b.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"265\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">See the terraces behind the players<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the match against US Bitam on Saturday , there were vast swathes of Nyayo stadium that were empty including the sections of the stadium usually occupied by Gor Mahia fans. According to futa.com, the gate collection was only Ksh 1 million.<\/p>\n<div>There was a surprisingly small and muted number of fans who turned up to watch. When you are used to seeing large numbers of fans show up to the stadium it is disappointing to see the numbers that showed up on Saturday, he said. The ones who came supported the team well and we are grateful but we wonder why not too many showed up,said Club official Ronald Ngala to futaa.com<\/div>\n<h3>What were the reasons ?<\/h3>\n<div>&#8211; The torrential rains that poured in Nairobi on Thursday, Friday and Saturday were a factor.<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; It is highly likely that many fans stayed away due to fear of hooliganism especially after the much publicized fracas from the Charity cup.<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; The club rested on it laurels and did not bother to promote or market the match. They simply assumed that fans would show up<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; The match was televised live. Thus many fans who would have attended the match opted to watch the match from the comfort of their homes or in bars. Because Supersport televised the match, Gor Mahia lost a lot of money. Typically a company that televises a match pays royalty fees but in this case it seems Supersport televised the match for free and left laughing all the way to the Bank<\/div>\n<h3>Yanga&#8217;s TV Deal<\/h3>\n<p>In contrast to their Kenyan counterparts, Yanga of Tanzania signed a deal with SGM which is a Kenyan company. The deal allows SGM to televise all of Yanga&#8217;s Champions league matches. In return, Yanga gets US $ 55,000 or the equivalent of Ksh 4.9 million.<\/p>\n<p>Yanga also entered a seperate deal with MGB to televise the matches in North Africa and central Africa. This is in anticipation of the fact that Yanga will play Al Ahly of Egypt in the first round thus creating a huge demand for the match in North Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Note that there is no such deal in Kenya. Not even when two Kenyan teams played against Egyptian opposition in 2013. 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