{"id":58045,"date":"2017-12-25T11:30:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T09:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=58045"},"modified":"2017-12-25T11:30:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T09:30:59","slug":"no-show-irks-big-bullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/12\/25\/no-show-irks-big-bullets\/","title":{"rendered":"No-show irks Big Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nyasa Big Bullets\u2019 interim General Secretary, Albert Chigoga, has described Masters Security Services FC\u2019s failure to turn up for their final TNM Super League game at Chilomoni Stadium in Blantyre on Saturday as childish.<br \/>\n\u201cWe know that, according to rules and regulations, we need to be awarded three points and two goals, but that is not fine with us. We wanted to win that match on the pitch. Moreover, we spent a lot of money preparing for the match,\u201d Chigoga said.<br \/>\nBullets supporters and players waited, in vain, for Masters to turn up for the game, before referee Ishmael Chizinga blew his whistle.<br \/>\nMasters General Secretary, Zakariah Nyirenda, confirmed that Masters\u2019 players refused to pitch up for the match in protest over unpaid salaries for November, adding that they were aware of the repercussions.<br \/>\nAs compensation to their angry supporters, Bullets first XI of the day played against the reserve side.<br \/>\nBullets caretaker Coach, Rodgers Yasin, said they have had a good run in the season.<br \/>\nBullets wound up the league with 67 points, while Masters have finished on position 13 with 31 points.<br \/>\nThe no-show puts question marks on Masters\u2019 preparedness for the Caf Confederations Cup preliminary round match against Petro de Luanda in February<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nyasa Big Bullets\u2019 interim General Secretary, Albert Chigoga, has described Masters Security Services FC\u2019s failure to turn up for their final TNM Super League game at Chilomoni Stadium in Blantyre on Saturday as childish. \u201cWe know that, according to rules and regulations, we need to be awarded three points and two goals, but that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58045","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\/58045","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=58045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58052,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58045\/revisions\/58052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}