By Bakah Derick
Blogger@hilltopvoices
It
was a very bright Monday afternoon in Bafia until 3:40pm when the heavens opened
pouring down water on the Ayem Stadium in Bafia just 9:37secs into the game
Cosmos FA and YOSA. The heavy nature of the rains though without ice blocks
forced the referee Kalla Mounjo to suspend the game.
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| COSMOS FA VS YOSA FC |
Fifteen
minutes later the rains subsided giving way for the continuation. This continuation
will however not be effective until the playground marked lines were retraced
and water carried out from the pitch in buckets with rags even used in what
looked like dry-cleaning.
Play
finally resumed at about 4:30pm and went uninterrupted till the end of the
first half.
At
the end of the 15minutes break, the day’s actors returned into the pitch only
for the rains to return in full force. The referees persisted up till the 25th
minute when 2nd assistant Referee Dorihnea Claude submitted to his
Boss Referee Kalla Mounjo that he could no longer see the marked lines clearly.
The stadium officials attempted to remark but the referees maintained that the
water was too much to manage and so they stopped the game.
This
met a lot of reactions with fans complaining about their monies paid as entry
fees. As Coach Kamgue Justin of YOSA and his Assistant Tuguen Jean Baptist
together with their players walked away quietly one could see disappointment
noting that the Bamenda team had become a serious challenge to Comos FA missing
two capital scoring opportunities with constant pressure to get an away win. This
will equally mean double expenditure for both teams.
The
heavy rain also brings to the table for reflection the football calendar in
Cameroon.
The
game will now have to be reprogrammed.