{"id":55165,"date":"2017-10-18T10:25:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T08:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=55165"},"modified":"2017-10-18T10:25:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T08:25:40","slug":"nomads-bitter-we-didnt-budget-for-karonga-trip-madeira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/10\/18\/nomads-bitter-we-didnt-budget-for-karonga-trip-madeira\/","title":{"rendered":"NOMADS BITTER: We didn\u2019t budget for Karonga trip\u2014Madeira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>T<\/strong>nm Super League leaders, Be Forward Wanderers, have said they will travel reluctantly to Karonga for Saturday\u2019s TNM Super League second-round game against Chitipa United.<\/p>\n<p>Wanderers Team Manager, Steve Madeira, Tuesday said they did not budget for such \u201ca long distance trip\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a long way in the season. We did not budget to play in Karonga. Nevertheless, we are a big club and wherever we will be asked to play, we will go,\u201d Madeira said.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Yasin Osman\u2019s men will, from Karonga, proceed to Mzuzu to face Moyale Barracks the following day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think next time those responsible for making fixtures should consider this scenario, which is difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is better for a team to travel to Karonga then play in Mzuzu after a month or so\u2026 not as is the case now,\u201d Madeira added.<\/p>\n<p>Wanderers also travelled to Mzuzu a fortnight ago and lost 2-0 to Moyale Barracks to exit the Fisd Challenge Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Due to high transportation costs, teams prefer playing two consecutive games on the road. Locally, it is usually only home teams that play one game per week.<\/p>\n<p>The newly-opened Karonga facility, which was constructed through Local Development Fund, will host a Super League game for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Football Association of Malawi officials are expected to inspect the stadium tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Chitipa General Secretary, Marshall Mwenechanya, said they were excited with the prospect of hosting Wanderers.<\/p>\n<p>Super League of Malawi General Secretary, Williams Banda, yesterday said Wanderers have not lodged a complaint to the league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a return match, implying that Chitipa also travelled all the way from Chitipa to Blantyre to face Wanderers in the first-round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeams also travel from Chitowe to Lilongwe, a distance of 320 kilometres, to fulfil fixtures [which is similar to Karonga to Mzuzu],\u201d Banda said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tnm Super League leaders, Be Forward Wanderers, have said they will travel reluctantly to Karonga for Saturday\u2019s TNM Super League second-round game against Chitipa United. Wanderers Team Manager, Steve Madeira, Tuesday said they did not budget for such \u201ca long distance trip\u201d. \u201cIt\u2019s a long way in the season. We did not budget to play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55165","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\/55165","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=55165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55172,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55165\/revisions\/55172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}