{"id":4948,"date":"2014-07-20T15:13:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T15:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=4948"},"modified":"2014-07-20T15:14:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T15:14:13","slug":"williamson-says-match-should-have-been-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/williamson-says-match-should-have-been-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Williamson says match should have been postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/williamson-bobby-bench.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Coach Bobby Williamson has contended that the Shield match against GFC 105 should have been posted given the sheer number of players away on international duty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The game should have been cancelled we were forced to play the match without with our players out for international duty. Rule is when you got players out on national duty , you cancel a match&#8221;, he said to futaa.com<\/p>\n<p>Indeed Gor Mahia were missing the Ugandan duo of Walusimbi and Kizito as well as goalkeeper Jerim Onyango and David Owino.<\/p>\n<p>He also lamented the ineligibility of Timothy Otieno. &#8220;We couldn\u2019t use the player (Timothy Otieno). We initially knew he was cap tied only to be informed that he is eligible to play very late when he was back in Nairobi&#8221; said Williamson to futaa.com<\/p>\n<p>However it must be said that even without these players, Gor Mahia should have been able to beat GFC. They were replaced by high calibre players. And it was anti-climatic given that Gor Mahia were returning to Kisumu which is historically their spiritual homeground after years of anticipation. And the team had been flown there. Morale should have been high.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless Gor Mahia dominated possession. It was the missed chances that let them down as well as the fact that GFC parked the bus quite effectively.\u00a0 Thousands of Gor fans thronged the venue with some atop the terrace wing and hundreds on the dump-site heap outside the stadium to watch the game.<\/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\/williamson-says-match-should-have-been-postponed\/\"\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>Coach Bobby Williamson has contended that the Shield match against GFC 105 should have been posted given the sheer number<\/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-4948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948","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=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}