Gor Mahia endured a myriad of challenges in their away clash against Otôho d’Oyo with head coach Mark Harrison alleging the Congolese (Brazzaville) outfit employed the use of black magic.The reigning Football Kenya Federation (FKF) Cup champions suffered a 1-0 defeat at the hands of Otôho d’Oyo in the first leg of the CAF Confederation Cup Playoffs.🟢 | COACH SPEAKS Coach Mark Harrison is happy to have his players back; calls on fans for big support on Sunday #Sirkal | #Betsafe | #TotalEnergiesCAFCC pic.twitter.com/CRUKYQPU2L— GOR MAHIA FC (@OfficialGMFC) December 3, 2021 The former Southampton custodian who is now at the helm of Gor Mahia claimed that one of his players was almost handed his marching orders for his attempt to throw away black magic planted on the pitch. “There are things that happened on the field with all the black magic and juju, the referee threatened to send off one of our players if he removed it from the field, we are in 2021, we are not back in the dark ages,”“If the game was live on TV these guys can’t do the things that they do, they have to be a bit more transparent, the positive Covid-19 results were fraudulent, there was no QR code on the certificate and yesterday we got a negative result from an independent PCR testing centre,” said Harrison.A video has since surfaced online showing one of the Otôho d’Oyo officials planting unknown materials along the halfway line but the club has since distanced itself from the video noting that the official was actually taking off the items planted on the pitch.Gor Mahia have however been handed a boost with the return to fitness of John Ochieng and Jules Ulimwengu who were alleged to have tested positive in Congo and Philemon Otieno and Sydney Ochieng from injury. AS Otoho “scientist” working on the pitch before the game against Gor Mahia yesterday. African football will never cease to amaze me 📹 Courtesy pic.twitter.com/B1Q78J88l2— Jeff Kinyanjui (@Nyash88) November 29, 2021 “Sydney had a hamstring and I think everybody knows if you get this kind of injury it’s a process, it could be three to six weeks. I do believe he might be fit for the weekend but I’m keeping my fingers crossed,”“There is Philemon who took a knock in training on Thursday last week which put him out of the game on Sunday, we are hoping he is going to fit to play, so we have Philemon, Jules, Sydney and John back then we are in a better shape,” noted Harrison.##EDITORS_CHOICE##
