{"id":8955,"date":"2016-10-16T15:19:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T15:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=8955"},"modified":"2016-10-16T16:58:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T16:58:03","slug":"gor-mahia-lose-to-muhoroni-youth-in-top-8-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-lose-to-muhoroni-youth-in-top-8-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia lose to Muhoroni Youth in Top 8 final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/vs-muho-top8-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"262\" \/><br \/>\nGor Mahia were stunned by Muhoroni, losing 0-1 and dashing any hopes of lifting silverware in 2016<br \/>\nAdditional Reporting from Citizen Sports<br \/>\nMuhoroni Youth completed a stunning smash and grab 1-0 victory over titleholders Gor Mahia in the KPL Top 8 final marred by crowd trouble which saw the game halted for almost a quarter of an hour at Nairobi\u2019s Nyayo National Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Chaos descended when irate K\u2019Ogalo fans set their ire on assistant referee Gilbert Cheruiyot accusing him of not being fair to the two-time winners of the knock-out tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Missiles descended on the pitch as tear gas was lobbied to contain the in another shameful outbreak of hooliganism in domestic football that saw both sets of players dash for their changing rooms immediately after the final whistle with no presentation of the trophy and the Ksh1m prize to the winners possible.<\/p>\n<p>South African pay television channel that was broadcasting the game live across Africa went off air moments later as trouble continued in the stands with defeat too painful to stomach for Gor supporter who saw the Top 8 as the only realistic stab at taking home a trophy this season with their hopes of defending their league crown fast receding.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the rubble of anarchy, Muhoroni celebrated their first ever silverware when Kennedy Rono capitalised on a terrible mistake by the Gor defenders to pinch the ball and coolly round off captain Jerim Onyango for the winner.<\/p>\n<p>His opposite number, Farouk Shikalo Miya put on a match-of-the-match performance to thwart the profligate K\u2019Ogalo who spurned chance after chance to win the game by the margin of daylight before the sucker-punch against the run of play floored them.<\/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\/gor-mahia-lose-to-muhoroni-youth-in-top-8-final\/\"\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 were stunned by Muhoroni, losing 0-1 and dashing any hopes of lifting silverware in 2016 Additional Reporting from<\/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":[231,453],"class_list":["post-8955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-vs-muhoroni-youth","tag-kpl-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955","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=8955"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8960,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions\/8960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}