Madang soccer crowd told to behave

MADANG soccer crowd has been warned not to intimidate players or lose the right to host the remaining National Soccer League games at Laiwaden Oval.
NSL Board chairman John Kapi Natto issued the warning after he convinced Tuguba Laitepo Morobe Kumuls to travel to Madang for their weekend’s match against Besta Madang Fighters.
The Kumuls had earlier threatened not to travel after several of their players were intimidated and were shot at with sling-shots during their last visit to Madang.
Natto said NSL is a semi professional competition and such behaviour of issuing threat and player intimidation had no place.
He said the NSL executive had decided to include Madang in its plan because Madang had a big soccer following.
It would not be right to remove NSL matches out of Madang as they have two teams in the NSL competition.
He reiterated that there should be no player intimidation or threat on players during matches
The chairman said he has instructed Kumuls management to travel as per security guaranteed by Besta Fighters management.
“Team manager Chris Papiali has guaranteed to provide 20 security personnals to be stationed throughout the Laiwaden Oval during the match,” he said.