Glo Premier League Update: Its gonna be zero violence league season - Muazu Chairman of Kano Pillars Supporters Club and the Federation of League Club Supporters Club, Bashir Idris Mu’azu has told Nigerians to expect a violence free Glo Premier League season and urged football fans to troop out to the league match venues with full assurance of their safety. Speaking against the background of the calmness of over 10,000 Kano Pillars fans in the face of a near home defeat to Sunshine Stars before Gambo Mohammed’s equaliser in the last minute of added time to salvage a 2-2 draw, Muazu revealed that the positive attitude of the fans was a fall out of the continuous fans’ enlightenment programme of the supporters club. “We started the fans enlightenment programme a few seasons back and intensified last season and we can see that it is paying off in the discipline of the fans. Before the commencement of the season, we organize fans behaviour workshops and seminars. We also use the various media platforms to reach out to fans to make them understand that football is just a game for entertainment and winning, losing or drawing are all to be equally expected. That is football. Even if we lose, our fans cannot get violent. We have a regular jingle that we play for fans with the stadium public address system with the message of peaceful conduct, disciplined behavior and friendliness to visiting fans, players and match officials. We also produce pamphlets with same messages which we distribute to the fans. They have imbibed these messages and that is why we now have no problem with fans control. The stadium is a friendly place for families to enjoy sporting entertainment and we shall strive to sustain it as such.” Muazu also informed that to replicate the commendable behavior of the Kano fans across all match venues in the country, the chairmen and secretaries of the various league club supporters have formed a coalition, which he incidentally has been elected as the chairman, with the aim of sharing experiences and collaborating on the enlightenment of fans. “We had our first seminar in Kano and another one in Abuja, in February. There is another in Warri in the beginning of the month and the various supporters’ clubs are taking the messages to their members and the public. With what we are doing and what the LMC has put in place for security, we expect a very wonderful, very enjoyable and violence free season. I urge football fans to embrace the league for their weekend entertainment, let them come and enjoy good football with all assurances of their safety and comfort at the various league match centres.” In the Glo Premier League Week 2 encounter refereed by Joseph Okeke (CR), Sunshine Stars of Akure almost snatched an away victory from host Pillars as they led 2-1 into the dying minutes before Super Eagles new strong and powerful centre forward, Mohammed Gambo, charged in for an equalizer in the 94th minute. Pillars had opened the sheet with an Ezekiel Mba strike in the 33rd minute but lost the chance to consolidate as Sunshine’s keeper, stopped a Rabiu Ali penalty. Rising with the confidence, Dele Olorundare fired in an equalizer while Kingsley Eduwo compounded the situation adding one more far into the second half to keep Sunshine ahead. Various efforts by the embarrassed title defenders were rebuffed still by Sunshine keeper well into regulation time until Gambo fought in at the dying minutes of added time to make it 2-2 and pull back a point for the homers.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:10:54 +0000
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