Kotoko, Hearts in bribery allegation

A member of the management team of Bofoakwa Tano, Mr. Takyi Arhin, has dropped a bombshell that some officials of Ghana's two most glamorous clubs, Fabulous Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak attempted to influence their 18th and 20th weeks Star Premier league matches respectively at the Coronation Park.

"They came with huge sums of money to convince us to play it soft against them but we rejected the monies," Mr. Arhin alleged on Drive Sports, a Radio BAR sports programme at Sunyani last Tuesday. The Bofoakwa-Kotoko match ended abruptly in the 74th minute while their match against Hearts ended in a 1-1 draw.

Mr. Arhin, who was on the programme to react to an allegation in an Accra daily last Tuesday that Bofoakwa supporters were planning a demonstration in protest against the manner management "sold" their match to Arsenals at Berekum on September 30, declared that Bofoakwa would never throw any match to any team for any reason.

"If we wanted to sell any match we would have gone in for Kotoko and Hearts who brought huge sums of money and not a poor club like Arsenals," Mr. Arhin alleged. He consequently refuted the allegation that some management member collected monies from Arsenals.