Controversial Takyi Arhin eulogizes referee Samuel Sukah's Super Clash performance

Published on: 22 March 2017

 

 

 

 

 

Outspoken football administrator, Takyi Arhin has heaped praises on under-fire referee Samuel Sukah for his performance in the Super clash encounter between Hearts of and Asante Kotoko on Sunday.

The Accra-based official has been criticized for his performance in the week 8 clash between Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko, where he awarded the former a late controversial penalty, which was aptly scored by Vincent Atinga for the Phobians to break their seven-year winless run against their arch-rivals

Speaking to Accra-based Green FM, the controversial Takyi Arhin said, “I watched the game at the comfort of my home and I will not begrudge the referee’s decision to award Hearts that penalty, because the manner in which Ahmed Adams threw himself on the ground to block the ball there’s no way the ball could not touch his hand,” Arhin told Accra-based Green FM.

He added, “I saw a video on social media which depicts that the ball hit the player’s back rather than the arm, but when you study the incident closely you could bear with me that the ball touched his arm therefore it was a clear penalty call by the referee.”

“In the spur of the moment, about 50% of referees will award that call. I don’t think the referee will intentionally award that penalty to favour Hearts. Had it been Europe this debate would have stopped by now because they use about six to ten cameras for just one game, so when it happens like it did on Sunday, replays will be shown from different angles for the fans to judge.”

“I’ve watched most of his games and I can say he’s one of the finest on the local scene, and I hate how the Kotoko supporters are taking this-how many penalties have they had in the league especially at home? They are also trying to implicate Dormaa-hene in this incident, which I think is bad and needless for our football,” he deduced.

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