Ndola United are expected to be penalised for abandoning Sunday’s FAZ Division One North Week 10 match over a disputed second half penalty awarded to their opponents Kitwe United at Garden Park Stadium in Kitwe.
Ndola players are reported to have walked out of the stadium in protest over a 62nd penalty awarded to Kitwe by Solwezi referee Jonathan Nasilele following an alleged foul inside the box.
The irate players jumped into their team bus and left the stadium before the spot-kick could be converted.
“The game was abandoned in the 62nd minute after Ndola United players left the pitch when Kitwe United were given a penalty. The players went into their bus and left the stadium,” a match official told LT Sports.
The two teams were tied goalless before the game was abandoned in Kitwe.
This disputed match will now be referred to the FAZ disciplinary committtee.
Meanwhile, Kitwe and Ndola are joint 9th on the table with 12 points from nine matches.
Very unprofessional! !
FAZ needs to be extremely strict on indiscipline. How many times do we see wrong decisions by referees in European or English games that stand. Do players and their supporters expect the referee to change his/her decision because of their protests? The best that teams do is to contest a decision officially but rarely do complaints on goals scored succeed because of the potential to be receiving them every week from almost all teams that may end up losers and then there would be chaos. Contested decisions that receive a hearing are those related to things like yellow and red cards unfairly issued. If a player is wrongly shown a red card and the player’s team ends up losing that game, it is the decision on the card that maybe reversed and not the scoreline. Controversies are part of the…
In such cases of causing an abandonment of the game due to any decision by the referee or any match official the punishment must start with a player who starts it and then extend to club management (coaches and staff) for failure to control players and the whole team and supporters who participate in the protests. Some of the punishment to include hefty fines on players, management, the fans and the team itself apart from dropping points and this should be in addition to awarding the game to the opposing team. We know that it is hard for players to accept certain decisions by match officials and they do protest on the pitch with some unlucky ones getting booked for decent but not going to an extent of either fighting on the pitch or abandoning a game things that are unacceptable. Plse stop
FAZ SHOULD AS WELL COUNSEL THE REFs…they are spoiling games. Most of the causes are out of poor officiating. Their decision making when officiating is pathetic…..