{"id":34155,"date":"2016-10-22T08:12:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T06:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=34155"},"modified":"2016-10-22T08:12:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T06:12:25","slug":"peter-mponda-wary-of-be-forward-wanderers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/10\/22\/peter-mponda-wary-of-be-forward-wanderers\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Mponda wary of Be Forward Wanderers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Premier Bet Wizards&#8217; Technical Director, Peter Mponda, has refused to read too much into the happenings in Be Forward Wanderers&#8217; camp ahead of today&#8217;s TNM Super League contest at Kamuzu Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>During the week, Wanderers players boycotted training over unpaid dues with captain, Francis Mlimbika, and winger, Mike Kaziputa, reportedly pressing for their signing-on fees.<\/p>\n<p>But having lost 2-1 away to Kamuzu Barracks, Mponda said he knows that the eighth-placed Wanderers cannot afford another slip-up.<\/p>\n<p>Nomads have 32 points from 22 games, nine points behind leaders, Silver Strikers. Wizards are placed on 14th place with 19 points from 22 games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wanderers are used to that. We should not be cheated that what is happening there can disturb their preparations. The players know that they are paid to win football matches,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>With attackers such as Hendrix Misinde, Benard Chimaimba and Peter Msowoya,<\/p>\n<p>Wizards can cause Wanderers&#8217; defence which will likely be without Foster Namwela, Boston Kabango and Harry Nyirenda problems.<\/p>\n<p>Wanderers&#8217; coach, Yasin Osman, has repeatedly insisted that his charges are still capable of winning the championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier Bet Wizards&#8217; Technical Director, Peter Mponda, has refused to read too much into the happenings in Be Forward Wanderers&#8217; camp ahead of today&#8217;s TNM Super League contest at Kamuzu Stadium. During the week, Wanderers players boycotted training over unpaid dues with captain, Francis Mlimbika, and winger, Mike Kaziputa, reportedly pressing for their signing-on fees. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34155","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\/34155","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=34155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34162,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34155\/revisions\/34162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}