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MOHAMMED SPORTING CAMP LIVID 

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Staff Reporter Published 04.08.99, 12:00 AM
Calcutta, Aug. 4 :    Calcutta, Aug. 4:  The Mohammedan Sporting camp was seething in anger. ?It?s plain and simple. We?ve been done in by some horrible and bias refereeing,? coach Syed Firoze burst out. ?Mohun Bagan, it seems, hasn?t just bought players but referees too. How can the linesman not spot what was a blatant off-side?? he asked. The mood among the players and officials was no different. When asked whether the club would take its protest to the IFA, an official said: ?What will that do? We?ve never found justice in such cases, why should we expect some this time?? Firoze said he was happy with the way his players were shaping up. ?We?re a much better team than we were when we met them in the (season-opener) McDowell Trophy, and we showed that today. But what good can it do if we get such decisions from the referee?? Firoze was of the view that they had also been denied a penalty ?when Omollo brought down Najimul?. He renewd the call to appoint outstation match officials for big matches in the League. Syed Nayeemuddin wouldn?t be drawn into a discussion on the supervision, though he said that ?from where we sat (at the other end of the ground), it (the first goal) looked okay?. He was ?happy with the way the boys played? even as he reminded that good soccer shouldn?t be expected when a team is playing its third match in five days. The Bagan coach said that he would now shift his focus to the Asian Club Cup enagagements against Mukti Joddha of Bangladesh. ?I will against request the club officials to organise a residential camp for the purpose.?    
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