“Where is your supporting spirit? Kudjo Fianoo asks Kotoko supporters

The lackluster support being given by supporters of Asante Kotoko FC have come under sever scrutiny by the C.E.O of Ashgold FC, Mr. Kudjo Fianoo.

He has also tasked fans of the club to research on the root word ‘support’ and access themselves if indeed they are being a true support for the club they “profess to love and support”.

At a supporters’ reorganization and fund raising rally of Zone 8 of Kotoko supporters of Ashanti Region, Mr. Fianoo, who had led a high-powered delegation of his club to the function minced no words when he took the supporter groups of the club on for abandoning their core duty in the scheme of things of the club.

“When we were growing up as children in our villages, we knew of only one football club and that was Asante Kotoko. This was because it was only Kotoko that was making all the news headlines in Ghana at that time and all these was being achieved because of the huge and functional support base of the club that is scattered across the country”.

“It came to a time that Kotoko supporters were so powerful that when any club was preparing against Kotoko, the opponents officials spent more time in psyching their players up to be able to contain the huge crowd that followed the club that they usually forgot about the main match”.

“This was the more reason why Kotoko won many matches at during those times. The fans did all the intimidation and the players only go onto the pitches to finish off the kill”.

According to him, those are the core values and duties of the club. “Your duty is to be there for the team through thick and thin,” he told the crowd that had been held spell bound by his high knowledge of the history of the club.

He entreated them to know their roles as people on whose shoulders the clubs run and any slow pace attitude on their part, “meant the clubs were also going to be slow”.

Espousing on the motto of Kotoko, “kum apem a, apem beba”, he told the gathering that the founders of the club and selectors of the slogan did not choose that important slogan for nothing.

“The slogan epitomizes the unfailing support and reliability of assistance from the fans. You should therefore be guided by the fact that it is also a call for action duty when all seem not to be going right”.

“The fans are the greatest assets of the club and you can only be recognized and appreciated when you are seen to be working and not waiting to be appreciated before you get to work for the club. Kotoko needs you all on board and the time to do that is now”.

Drawing from his sense of humor, he spoke on how the absence of the fans at Kotoko matches was affecting not only Kotoko but all others clubs in Ghana.

“At Ashgold and I know for a fact that same pertains in all other clubs, budgets used to be prepared with prime attention given to expected gate proceeds from our matches against Kotoko”.

“With the proceeds from our matches against Kotoko, we could pay all our outstanding bills of the players and even comfortably sort out some of our creditors. But know, it will be a big mistake for one to do that because instead of the supporters being true kum apem a, apem beba, they have reduced their support to when you kill thousand, a hundred will not even come”.

He commended the organizers of the rally for the program and recommended to all supporter groups of both Ashgold and Kotoko to adopt the strategy to properly champion the course of their clubs.

Concluding, he thanked the management of Kotoko for their wonderful show of brotherly concern and commitment to the peace agreement brokered between Kotoko and Ashgold and expressed joy that “officials of both clubs could walk to watch matches of one another club without fear of attack and intimidation”.

“I am happy that this peace has finally been achieved at our time and I know with this, our patron and overlord, Otumfuo can have sound sleep knowing very well that his children would not engage in any shameful violence”.