Kotoko supporters express anger with players and management

Kumasi, April 3, GNA - A number of supporters of Kumasi Asante Kotoko Football Club have threatened to visit mayhem on players and management of the Club for their poor showing against Gamba All Blacks in their 15th Week Glo Premier League encounter at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi last Wednesday.

Kotoko lost the match 0-2 to less-fancied All Blacks, and just after the match, some angry supporters besieged the entrance to the dressing room and the VVIP stand to vent their spleen on the officials. It took the intervention of the Rapid Deployment Force (RDF) of the Police Service to whisk some of the players and management members to safety after they had sought refuge at the dressing room for well over an hour.

"We wanted to teach the players and management a lesson following their disappointing performance in the League, especially in our home matches", one angry supporter lamented. Kofi Agyemang, a Taxi driver and a staunch Kotoko supporter, told GNA Sports that, "some of us have to struggle to pay for the gate fees and that we expected the playing body and management to live up to expectation in our matches".

Godwin Adu-Boahen, a resident of Asokwa said he was not happy that Kotoko had lost three matches at home since the commencement of the league, even though supporters normally troop to the stadium in their numbers to cheer their idol Club. He appealed to Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene to as a matter of urgency dissolve the management to pave way for sanity to prevail in the Club.

Adu-Boahen also urged the technical team to offload some of the players who were not committed to the cause of the club and recruit more serious ones to beef up the team.

Meanwhile, Godfred Yeboah, Skipper of Kotoko has called on the supporters to continue to rally behind the team even in times of difficulties to ginger the playing body to deliver as expected of them. He told GNA Sports in Kumasi on Thursday that football was full of uncertainties and that the only way to overcome misfortunes was to get the necessary moral support from stakeholders. The Kotoko Skipper predicted victory for his team as they encounter Ittihad Khemisset of Morocco in their CAF Champions League fixture.