Why always Bosso?

02 Jun, 2017 - 00:06 0 Views
Why always Bosso? Modern Ngwenya

The ManicaPost

ESTEEMED followers of the game of football, thank you for finding time for interaction.

The recurrence of violent occurrences involving Highlanders fans has become worrisome to sincere friends of the game.

Last weekend’s disturbances at Mandava Stadium in Highlanders’ match against FC Platinum follow hot on the heels of similar skirmishes at their Babourfields home when they played Dynamos recently. That they are repeating the same mistakes inside a month – with a disciplinary case against them still pending before the PSL – is deeply deplorable.

Has football gone to the dogs? Or the dogs have come to the game?

Some officials in the Highlanders hierarchy like acting club chairman Modern Ngwenya have tried to deodorise the rubbish that hooliganism spews at match venues in games that have involved Bosso by playing down the culpability of their perceived fans when he, together with the rest of the club, should be concerned about how their team is getting associated with such disturbances. Newspapers supposedly aligned to Bosso have also not helped matters and are blatantly taking sides with the team and peddling the Bulawayo giants’ playing victim mantra.

This is highly retrogressive.

This ain’t football anymore.

We, the fans who pay their way into stadia, are, as stakeholders also, are demanding better because we certainly deserve it.

Surely supporters cannot be seen to be taking matters pertaining to match officiating into their own hands. But where does all this take out football?

What image of our game do we hold up to the rest of the world?

Does this not jeopardise the interests of football’s corporate partners and sponsors whose association with our game we ought to be safeguarding that should they decide to turn their back on us we would be left all the poorer?

Does football still remain a family game when we allow its face to be smeared by misguided elements? Where is the sportsmanship in all this? Why are we allowing football’s soul to be soiled and crucified by unruly fans that certainly have no place in the game?

Are Highlanders sore losers who cannot be gracious in defeat?

It’s Game On, Play On!

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