{"id":4376,"date":"2014-04-14T12:03:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T12:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=4376"},"modified":"2014-04-14T12:04:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T12:04:31","slug":"williamson-elated-with-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/williamson-elated-with-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Williamson elated with win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/williamson-suit.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"324\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of supersport.com<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia tactician Bobby Williamson was elated after his charges came from a goal down to beat hosts Ulinzi Stars 2-1 in an entertaining match played at Afraha Stadium in Nakuru.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson was impressed by the players\u2019 resilience despite going down early as he heaped praise on their performance of his players who had been under pressure to impress their fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very happy with today&#8217;s performance coming against all odds as we conceded early in the game. The players however proved their resilience as they fought tooth and nail to get the much needed equalizer in the tough match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are heading in the right direction and if we can continue with the same tempo then we have very good chances in the league but it is important we remain consistent in every game &#8220;Williamson told supersport.com.<\/p>\n<p>Gor moved to third on the log table after the impressive win and will play Thika next weekend in the ongoing KPL Top 8 knockout match.<\/p>\n<h3>Ulinzi Chair urges Gor Mahia to control fans<\/h3>\n<p>courtesy of futaa.com<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ulinzi Stars Chairperson Juma Mwinyikai has urged the Gor Mahia management to put measures to control the club\u2019s fans during matches.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b>A section of Gor Mahia fans, estimated to be around 1500, arrived late at the match venue and forced their way into the stadium (without buying tickets) and in the process seriously injuring one of the ticket sellers as well as damaging the ticket-selling van belonging to Big Brother Ticketing firm.<\/p>\n<p>While in the stadium, after Ulinzi Stars scored, a number of fans confronted the Ulinzi Stars chairman Juma Shee Mwinyikai, who had to leave at half time to prevent ugly scenes after directing army officers present not to engage the fans.<\/p>\n<p><b>Measures<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to\u00a0futaa.com, Mwinyikai called on the Gor Mahia leadership to put up better measures to control their fans and noted that they will be waiting to see how the issue is dealt with, given that senior Kenyan Premier League (KPL) officials were present at the stadium and witnessed the occurrences.<\/p>\n<p>-They threatened to cause a scene but we handled it well and I had to leave at half time to prevent a scuffle because it would not have augured well for me as the chairman to get involved. I think what they lack is leadership because no serious group can let that happen, Mwinyikai said,<\/p>\n<p>-In Ulinzi Stars, if I spot our fan misbehaving I can tell him or her to stop it and they will listen. We are just waiting to see the reports from the game from the match commissioner and the top KPL officials who were at the stadium, he added.<\/p>\n<p><b>Solutions<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A meeting by the OCS Bondeni, Ulinzi Stars and the stadium management was held this morning (Monday) to seek solutions on how to handle future matches involving Gor Mahia matches at the stadium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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\/williamson-elated-with-win\/\"\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 supersport.com Gor Mahia tactician Bobby Williamson was elated after his charges came from a goal down to beat<\/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-4376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376","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=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}