{"id":5610,"date":"2014-11-06T02:43:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T02:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2014-11-06T02:43:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T02:43:54","slug":"mind-games-ahead-of-crucial-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/mind-games-ahead-of-crucial-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Games ahead of crucial Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/kisumu-stadium-reco.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kennedy Kenyatta, the coach of Ushuru FC sees the Saturday match against Gor Mahia as an opportunity to build his reputation.<br \/>\n&#8220;These kinds of matches build up your reputation when you do well in them and as a coach I am determined to make the most of it by winning on Saturday.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;We have had several challenges like injuries to key players but we hope to overcome this and pick a positive result,&#8221; he said to the Standard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Complaints about Referee<\/h3>\n<div>Both Ushuru and Sofapaka have written to KPL asking the latter to replace referee Amos Wanjala who has been assigned to officiate the match against Ushuru.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>According to a source in KRA, who asked not to be named, they are very uncomfortable with Wanjala.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apart from what he did against City Stars, he has also mishandled some of our matches and we want him changed. We have written to KPL and Football Kenya Federation to effect the change. We don&#8217;t want to go to a match that has already been decided,&#8221; the official from KRA revealed to <strong>Goal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Sofapaka on the other hand claim Wanjala was blacklisted after his handling of the match between Gor Mahia and City Stars and should not have been picked to officiate such a decisive match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It looks like an attempt to award Gor Mahia victory. We don&#8217;t believe the referee will be fair on\u00a0Saturday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But both these clubs are clearly just playing mind games with the referee to try and influence him to make decisions against Gor Mahia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Change of Venue<\/h3>\n<div>Both Sofapaka and KRA have also lodged complaints against the change of venue from Nairobi to Kisumu. Sofapaka owner Elly Kalekwa is supposedly incensed at the change of venue.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;I am not sure it is the right decision to transfer this match to Kisumu. Yes, (Gor Mahia) are home team, but who is meeting costs for Ushuru to travel all the way and possibly spend night at lakeside town?&#8221; Kalekwa posed to goal.com.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In fact if my team was playing them (Gor Mahia) and they asked us to move venue, we would reject the offer outright.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>Gor Mahia Chairman Ambrose Rachier said the decision to move the match to Kisumu is meant to give Kisumu fans an opportunity to watch the team again.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We are delighted by the enthusiastic support we have experienced in Kisumu and we want to give them another chance to watch the team. We promise to provide adequate security to our guests and will accept whatever results we get,&#8221; said Rachier<\/div>\n<p>This is the penultimate weekend of the 2014 Tusker premier league and matches this weekend kick off at 2pm on Saturday.<\/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\/mind-games-ahead-of-crucial-saturday\/\"\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>Kennedy Kenyatta, the coach of Ushuru FC sees the Saturday match against Gor Mahia as an opportunity to build his<\/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":[235,172],"class_list":["post-5610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2014-tusker-premier-league","tag-gor-mahia-vs-atletico-burundi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610","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=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}