Online Reporter
Robson Sharuko
H-Metro Editor
PREMIERSHIP leaders MWOS have not lost a league match at home for TWO years since their days in Division One.
The Norton side have a four-point cushion at the top of the table after 14 games into the new season.
However, their lead will certainly be cut to three points when their bitter rivals Scottland, as is now certain, are awarded three points, and three goals, from their abandoned league match against Chicken Inn at Rufaro recently.
This became clear yesterday when the PSL charged the Gamecocks “for causing the abandonment of their Castle Lager Premier Soccer League Matchday 13 against Scottland FC.”
The game was abandoned with just a minute left in regulation time when Scottland were awarded a penalty for a handball in the box.
“The charges against Chicken Inn FC include disorderly conduct, failure by players and officials to comply with lawful orders, disrupting the normal proceedings of a match, and causing the abandonment of the match.
“Additionally, Chicken Inn FC player George Majika has also been summoned to appear before the Disciplinary Committee on allegations of disorderly conduct and failure to comply with lawful orders. “The disciplinary hearings will be held at the PSL offices on Thursday, 26 June 2025,” the league side in their statement.
Scottland are provisionally in third place, below champions Simba Bhora, but they are likely to get to the three points from that abandoned match.
MWOS edged Scottland in a tight match which drew a bumper crowd at Ngoni on Saturday.
The result meant that MWOS have not lost a game at Ngoni in the 38 matches they have played at their fortress. The last defeat suffered by MWOS at home was when they went down 0-1 to Black Mambas on June 10, 2023, in a Division One league match.
Mambas were then the top team in Division One that season before they faded towards the end of the campaign and allowed Chegutu Pirates to overtake them and win the ticket into the Premiership.
Lloyd Mutasa was in charge of MWOS during that game but it would mark the last time his men would lose in their backyard in a league match both in Division One and in the PSL.
The closest they came to losing a game was when TelOne took a two-goal lead this season only for the Gweru side to lose two men to red cards and then settle for a 2-2 draw.
Had Washington Navaya converted the penalty to give TelOne a 3-1 lead, it’s very likely that it would have ended up being a different story.
