Philemon Jambaya
Former Warriors captain Norman Mapeza has threatened to quit as FC Platinum coach after he lost to Herentals FC in a controversial way.
Mapeza side lost 1 nil but the former Galatasaray player blamed the referee. Mapeza, who was seen signaling the 4th official after every call against his team, believes that the referees are killing the game.
“With the way I love football, some of these things are going to force me to quit football. It’s not worth it. I love football so much, I want to see these kids develop as footballers, but if the football is going to be like this, like what we saw today, then why am I here? I would rather go home and rest. It’s better because we can’t continue like this,” Mapeza fumed.
“Someone gets hacked down two, three times in front of him (referee) and he leaves it. This is not football, guys let’s be honest.
“I know you have to do your job as journalists, but sometimes you have to write the truth about some of these things. If you don’t expose such things, we will be going nowhere. We have to help each other. You have an important role to play and expose these things. Is this what we are looking for in our football. Where are we going (with such officiating)? Yes we lost, it’s a game of football and I accept that, but this is not it, it’s bad.
“I had to go and pacify the players because you could tell the emotions were too high. I had to calm them down because there were a few minutes remaining to the match. I told them to leave it and continue playing.”
The defeat condemned the defending Champions to the 6th position three points behind log leaders Highlanders.
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