The Kano Pillars Football Club’s management has begged the National Premier Football League (NPFL) Disciplinary Committee to change its mind regarding the club’s one million naira fine.

The penalty was put in place in reaction to the football stadium’s crowd invasion during the team’s week four Premier League match at Sani Abacha Stadium Kofar Mata Kano against visiting Rivers United.

In a letter signed by Kano Pillars FC Public Relations Officer Sharif Zaharaddeen Usman Kofar Nasarawa and endorsed by the club’s chairman, Alhaji Babangida Umar Little, and secretary general, Comrade Sani Ibrahim Coach, the management urged the committee to look critically into the matter with a view to tempering justice with mercy, noting that “what transpired was not deliberate but co-incidental which all human beings are bound to being fallible.”It was also stated that everyone was ecstatic because the goal was scored at a moment when nobody was expecting it, which is why everyone was ecstatic.

It further cited similar situation when Remo Stars thrashed Sporting of Lagos and fans trooped into the pitch to celebrate  with the players stressing that it used to occur on many instances in countries regarded as super powers of the round leather profession.

 

Thus, as one of the teams with large following, we will continue to do the utmost in controlling not only our fans but spectators on the need to always adhere strictly to spelt our guidelines of the game as enshrined by the football governing body  aimed at show casing the good name of the country across the outside world.

“As we await what may  be the outcome of our plea for leniency, it is our fervent hope that the committee being a group of men of timbre and candour will do the needful towards rescinding their earlier decision which without mincing words will be in the best interest of fairness, equality,  justice and above all football development across  the land.”