The big debate that is going on in social media is the events that happened in the Mapinduzi Cup when the referees failed to properly interpret the 17 rules of soccer and thus benefited the teams that did not deserve it
Perhaps this year's competition has seen more mistakes made by referees than at any other time since the championship was started
Yesterday the refereeing committee of the tournament announced the suspension of the first assistant referee Yusuf Shombe Issa for failing to properly interpret the rules by allowing the first goal of Azam and later Singida Fountain Gate which was illegal in the quarter final game
Azam scored the first goal through Alassane Diao's header when he appeared to be offside before Singida got the second goal scored by Habib Kyombo who also appeared to be offside and made the final result Singida won 2-1 and advanced to the semi-finals
Besides Issa, Shekha also said the second suspended referee was Mohamed Mwadini who was the first assistant referee who allowed a goal in the group game between JKU and APR claiming the ball crossed the goal line when it did not.
The match ended with APR winning 3-1 and going to the quarter-finals where they managed to eliminate Yanga before being eliminated by Mlandege in the semi-finals
Yesterday in the semi-final game between Singida FG and Simba, another mistake happened with Singida FG losing the game through penalty kicks
Despite the addition of 6 minutes after the end of 90 minutes, the game was played for almost 100 minutes with Simba equalizing the goal in the 9th minute out of 10 played through a controversial corner kick
The Chairman of the Committee, Minister Shekha said after the meeting held today, January 11, 2024, through the efficiency of the Somali referee and his assistants, they have discovered that the referee was wrong in his decision to give a corner to Simba, which resulted in the equalizer
>Shekha has said that the mistake is human because referees also make mistakes..!
