{"id":33947,"date":"2016-10-19T09:55:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T07:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=33947"},"modified":"2016-10-19T09:55:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T07:55:50","slug":"red-lions-bemoan-red-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/10\/19\/red-lions-bemoan-red-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Lions bemoan red card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Lions have attributed their three-all draw against Nyasa Big Bullets at Kamuzu Stadium on Monday to a red card flashed to the visitors\u2019 striker, Lot Chawinga.<\/p>\n<p>Chawinga received marching orders after protesting against referee, Evidence Kananji\u2019s decision to show him a second yellow card for fouling Bullets\u2019 defender, Maneno Nyoni.<\/p>\n<p>The decision did not please Lions\u2019 technical panel which claimed that it was Nyoni who deserved the caution, forcing the referee to dismiss Lions\u2019 head coach, Mike Kumanga, from the technical area.<\/p>\n<p>Lions outplayed the hosts and scored through Kelvin Katema, Chawinga and McPeter Makwale before Muhammad Sulumba, Collen Nkhulambe and Chiukepo Msowoya replied for the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>Lions\u2019 assistant coach, Pritchard Mwansa, questioned the referee\u2019s decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot focus much on his decisions because even if we lodge complaints nothing is done. But we hope that the referee\u2019s body is able to see such issues,\u201d Mwansa said.<\/p>\n<p>Lions are on position 11 with 26 points from 22 games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have improved our standard of play and I am hopeful that we will finish on a better position. We drew our inspiration from Saturday\u2019s 2-1 win over Blue Eagles,\u201d Mwansa added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Lions have attributed their three-all draw against Nyasa Big Bullets at Kamuzu Stadium on Monday to a red card flashed to the visitors\u2019 striker, Lot Chawinga. Chawinga received marching orders after protesting against referee, Evidence Kananji\u2019s decision to show him a second yellow card for fouling Bullets\u2019 defender, Maneno Nyoni. The decision did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33950,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33947\/revisions\/33950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}