BFF summons Amer
The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) has said it would look into claims by Brothers Union manager Amer Khan of having forced to play a fixed match against eventual champions Abahani.
“The professional league committee will sit in an emergency meeting tomorrow (Thursday) to look into the claims of Brothers Union manager Amer Khan,” said BFF's senior vice president and professional league committee chairman Abdus Salam Murshey.
Murshedy said, “We have asked Amer to appear before the emergency meeting and produce the evidence which he claimed during a TV interview and we will decide the next course of action after the meeting.”
The BFF vice president, however, said that he has learnt that the Brothers Union sent him a letter which dubbed the TV report baseless and deceptive.
Amer Khan made the claims in the TV interview at a time when his club, Brothers Union, were being investigated for playing two fixed matches against Rahmatganj MFS and Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club in the last edition of the Bangladesh Premier League though Brothers and Rahmatganj have been cleared of the allegation by football's governing body on Wednesday.
However, the investigation on the second allegation against Brothers and Sheikh Jamal has not been launched yet, according to Humayun Khalid, chief of the BFF Fixed-Match Identification Committee.
Khalid told Daily Star that they could not get any concrete evidence on which they could identify the fixed match between Brothers and Rahmatganj.
The committee opined that the video footages and news reports were not concrete to identify the match as a fixed one.
But now that a responsible club official like Amer has come out in public to claim that they played fixed match, it should be taken as an incriminating evidence and should force the BFF to have a thorough investigation into the matter.
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