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TTM’s marketing manager, Mr Nicholas Madzuhe.  

No free points for TTM

 

Although the disciplinary committee of the Premier Soccer League found one of the NFD affiliates, Mbombela United, guilty on a charge of fielding a defaulter in their game against Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila (TTM), the Tshakhuma side will not be awarded the points for the match as anticipated.

The case relates to an incident during a league match between the two teams at the Kanyamazane Stadium in Nelspruit at the beginning of last month. One of the players that Mbombela United fielded in that game, Mxolisi Mayongo, was still under suspension. According to the rules and regulations of the league, a club will be found guilty of fielding a defaulter if they field a player who has been suspended for whatever reason. TTM lost the match 1-5 to Mbombela United.

TTM did not lodge a protest during the game, although they knew that the player in question was still under suspension. Instead, they lodged a complaint. According to the statement from the league, Mbombela United wrote a letter to the league, pleading guilty prior the disciplinary committee sitting.

During its sitting in the league’s offices last Wednesday, the committee endorsed the plea agreement between the league and Mbombela United. Mbombela United were sentenced to a deduction of three match points during the current season and ordered to pay a fine of R50 000, R25 000 of which was suspended for 24 months.

The player, Mxolisi Mayongo, was suspended for a further four matches in addition to the one match that he was still to serve. Two of the four matches were suspended for 24 months.

When asked why the points for the match had only been deducted from Mbombela United and not awarded to TTM, the league media liaison officer, Mr Lux September, said that the committee’s decision was based on the league’s rules and regulations, namely that a club cannot be awarded the points for the match if they do not lodge their protest during the game. TTM’s marketing manager, Mr Nicolas Madzuhe, said they were still to sit and analyse the case.

Sport - Date: 18 January 2018

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Frank is a Human Resources Manager at the Department of Public Works in Limpopo. He is the longest serving correspondent of the Mirror, having joined us at the end of 1990.  He mainly writes sports reports and resides at Tsianda Village. In 2004, Frank won the National Castle League Award, an award for the best reporter in the SAB league in South Africa.

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