Migori Youth FC administration has on Monday evening expressed their level of concern with the integrity of this season’s National Super League and especially the recent happenings in the last few weeks to close out the season.In a statement sent out to sections of the media, the club made reference to two games played over Sunday 11 June and Monday 12 June 2023 as games the management “ watched in disbelief” especially with the ramifications they played in the league positioning.Earlier today, Mara Sugar needed to beat Silibwet by seven unanswered goals to go third in the table [The playoff spot] and they got just that.Silibwet is one of the teams flagged for engaging in ALLEGED match manipulation. #NSL pic.twitter.com/u9SKU7yM6g— Ole Teya (@TeyaKevin) June 12, 2023 Following the timeline of events, Migori Youth were on the aforementioned Sunday afternoon scheduled to play Kibera Black Stars FC at Migori Stadium – a game that the latter failed to show up for- necessitating the league to award Migori Youth a win on a 3 points, 2 goals basis.Why Kibera Black Stars will dish first walkover in the 2022-2023 National Super League seasonThe next day on Monday, their ‘promotion-race rivals’ Mara Sugar went on to register one of their heaviest wins this season as they annihilated lowly placed Silibwet Leons 7-0, a game that saw Mara Sugar move past Migori Youth on the table standings by the virtue of goal difference.“On Monday, Mara Sugar FC traveled to Bomet to play Silibwet FC,” a part of the club statement read on Monday evening. “Mara Sugar FC needed 7 goals to leapfrog Migori Youth FC in the league standings and interestingly, Silbwet FC conceded 7 goals, 6 of those coming in the second half! Suffice to note that Silibwet FC had already been flagged for match manipulation early in the season.”The twin results saw both clubs draw level on 53 points but Mara Sugar moved a place up into third courtesy of a one goal advantage over Migori Youth with a +19 GD.Mara Sugar annihilate Silibwet to gazump Migori Youth in promotion race“As a Club that highly values integrity, we are deeply concerned with the recent happenings and with the season now in its homestretch, we call on the Federation to safeguard the integrity of this league by instituting thorough investigations especially in the aforementioned results and take stern action on any individual/team found guilty of match manipulation,” the statement read.With the new directive from the Federation that no club in the NSL would get relegated at the end of the season, the statement added; “There have been trends that border on match manipulation especially when the fixture involves teams battling for promotion against teams that are at the bottom. The teams, especially those at the bottom, with the knowledge that they won’t be relegated, have continued to post questionable results especially when they come up against the promotion chasing teams.”The development comes after a report from Mozzart Sport expressed fears that from a club source that Silibwet Leons lost two matches earlier in the season in questionable circumstances.“We ask for calm and patience from our fans and football stakeholders at large even as we await a swift response from the Federation regarding the matter,” the statement concluded.
