{"id":3951,"date":"2014-02-17T12:22:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T12:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=3951"},"modified":"2014-02-19T03:04:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T03:04:27","slug":"tm-ouna-blasts-biased-referee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/tm-ouna-blasts-biased-referee\/","title":{"rendered":"TM Ouna blasts &#8220;biased&#8221; referee"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 396px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/williamson-bobby-bench.jpg\" width=\"396\" height=\"274\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ouna pictured here in the orange shirt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gor Mahia team manager Frank Ouna has criticized the match referee for biased officiating during the Africa Champions league second leg match against US Bitam on Sunday. He condemned what he deemed as biased officiating that saw the referee flash two red cards at Gor Mahia, award US Bitam two penalties and flash several yellow cards at Gor Mahia players.<\/p>\n<p>The match referee was Jerry Yekeh from Liberia<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was the best of the worst refereeing witnessed in Africa. But I must appreciate the character and mental strength displayed by the boys. Despite facing open biased officiating they remained composed and fought hard to maintain the score line.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was also given matching orders for protesting a deliberate act by the referee to keep Jared Obwoge out of play for a long time after he had been stretchered off the field. We were less on the field of play and for the referee to ignore Obwoge on the touchline was way calculated to give Bitam advantage.\u201d Ouna told michezoafrika.com.tb<\/p>\n<p>Blatantly biased officiating has been common in African football since the 1960s but especially in North Africa and West Africa. Referees are often compromised with bribes and arrive at a matchday venue with a fixed mind.<\/p>\n<h3>Gor Mahia play City Stars on Thursday<\/h3>\n<p>Gor Mahia will kick off the defence of the Tusker premier league on Thursday against Nairobi City Stars. According to the KPL website, the match will start at 15:00 and will be played at City Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Fans will be hoping that team will have found ways to end their scoring drought. With a forwardline that has Sserunkuma, Oboya, Blackberry and Rama Salim, fireworks were expected. Said fireworks have not materialized yet as the coach Williamson is still looking for the right combinations.<\/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\/tm-ouna-blasts-biased-referee\/\"\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>Gor Mahia team manager Frank Ouna has criticized the match referee for biased officiating during the Africa Champions league second<\/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-3951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951","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=3951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}