Witchcraft claims, chaos cloud Vipers victory in Masindi
Vipers secured a well deserved 2-0 victory against Kitara in the Uganda Premier League encounter at Masindi Municipality Stadium on Friday. The league’s defending champion showed character as they completed a double over Kitara to assume the log summit. Donato Okello (own goal) and Abubaker Lawal’s strikes earned Vipers maximum points on the day. It […] The post Witchcraft claims, chaos cloud Vipers victory in Masindi appeared first on Kawowo Sports.
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Vipers secured a well deserved 2-0 victory against Kitara in the Uganda Premier League encounter at Masindi Municipality Stadium on Friday.
The league’s defending champion showed character as they completed a double over Kitara to assume the log summit.
Donato Okello (own goal) and Abubaker Lawal’s strikes earned Vipers maximum points on the day.
It was a sweet revenge for Vipers who were earlier eliminated by the Royals in the Uganda Cup on Sunday.
Witchcraft reports
Over the years, Uganda football has witnessed reports that a number of club officials, athletes and fans regularly indulge in witchcraft.
In the game between the two teams, Hillary Mukundane called upon center referee Mashood Ssali complaining that Kitara’s captain Maxwell Owachgiu had ‘juju’ in his shorts.
After a pull and push from both groups of players, Owachgiu handed over something to Mashood before he was asked t to get off the pitch.
With 20 minutes to the final whistle, one of the stewards was seen going to the bus before he picked something that was later handed over to the ball boy behind Vipers’ goal.
In no time, Vipers’ physiotherapist Micheal Lule rushed off the bench and got the stuff from the ball boy before he should it to the officials and the fans were left in awe.
Coincidentally after six minutes, Vipers doubled their lead through Nigerian forward Abubaker Lawal hence silencing Kitara’s huge crowd.
More chaos
Vipers captain Milton Karisa was lifted off the field off play thrice. But each time he came off, the skipper complained of failure for clear sight.
Both technical benches kept exchanging words, it was heated in that Vipers refused to go back to the dressing rooms at full time.
In fact, after the game, one of the players that was substituted early was overheard complaining that all through the game he struggled with having a clear sight.
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