Hurting football's healing wound reopens
Friday, May 17, 2024 | 110 Views |
![Disgruntled: Some of the shareholders who attended the BFL meeting in Palapye in January PIC:KENNEDY RAMOKONE](https://cdn4.premiumread.com/?url=https://www.mmegi.bw/mmegi/uploads/images/2024/05/17/108872.jpg&w=800&q=72&f=jpg&t=1)
Disgruntled: Some of the shareholders who attended the BFL meeting in Palapye in January PIC:KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Some repair works were believed to have taken place behind closed doors despite evident tensions that have simmered all summer within the football circles.
However, it had looked like the warring parties, which pitted the BFL chairperson, Nicholas Zakhem on one corner and a group of shareholders on the other, were making inroads in stitching together the pieces of a broken relationship. But it appears they had papered over the cracks.
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