Olumo fans hold Sharks hostage

Fans of relegation-haunted Gateway FC of Abeokuta last weekend, went haywire, disrupting the Nigerian Premier League encounter between their team and viisting Sharks FC of Port Harcourt. The game had gone the entire hog in the first half with no record of any ugly incident, even when neither side could score a goal, but on resumption of the second half, the visitors came in with traces of refreshed hunting moves for goals.

After a series of such tailor-knit swoops on their Gateway hosts' vital and sesitive goal area, the Amodu Shuaibu boys from the Garden City, earned a goal dividend, through one of their irrepressible and gutsful attackers, Charles Omokaro in the 58th minute. This was early enough to put both fans, players and officials of Gateway in the make-believe world of a fool's paradise that, sooner than later, an equalizer would come.

However, as the time ticked away the minutes, it soon dawned on the Abeokuta ball fans and supporters that, their hope to at least nick a slender lift from the relegation cave, could be dashed. Then, restiveness set in with unprintable words from the now-aprehesive home fans, being spat at players and the bench of the visitors. According to one of the personal aids of Coach Shuaibu, Mr. Richard, the verbal onslaughts soon grew into misile-hauling attacks on to the pitch at both the match officials, players of Sharks and their coaches.

"The match could no longer continue under the circumstance where the match officials, Sharks players and their officials had to run for cover in the Dressing Rooms. That was where all of us remained until, an enforcement team of the Police came to our rescue at about 7.30pm. For the law-enforcement agents, nobody knows what would have happened, because the restive fans were not ready to let us go unharmed," Richard narrated.