Tue 21 Nov 06
More Clever than Ragging the Ref
Because Graham Poll can’t be everywhere:
Officials from Tanzania’s top two clubs are refusing to comment on their punishment for supposedly using witchcraft to influence the outcome of the country’s domestic league.
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Investigative journalists from a national newspaper had published photographs showing fans of each team burying unknown substances in the pitch on the eve of the game.
Other rituals found the players using the spectator’s entrances before the game rather than the stadium’s main gate - for fear of passing through an area they believe may have been tainted by witchcraft.
Paul Canniff
