Officials save ref from coach's wrath

Last weekend, the accusations nearly led to violence in the be MOBILE Premier League game between BDF XI and hosts ECCO City Greens. Annoyed by what he thought was a biased decision, the usually calm BDF XI coach, Stanley Mwaanga threatened to rough-up referee Joshua Bondo. The coach had to be restrained by members of his technical bench as he went for Bondo during half-time. Mwaanga was irked by the red card given to BDF XI skipper, Mompati 'Apache' Thuma for bouncing the ball in protest after Bondo had yellow carded a teammate. As the players and match officials walked to the change-rooms at half-time, Mwaanga suddenly lunged at Bondo. But disaster was averted by quick intervention from other BDF XI officials.

Perhaps what added salt to injury was the fact that immediately after Thuma's sending off, ECCO equalised through Robert Tamba in injury time. BDF XI had scored in the 45th minute through Mokgathi 'Pro' Mokgathi.