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Chicken Inn condemned for being goal shy
30 Nov 2015 at 06:43hrs | Views
The 2015 Castle Lager Premiership champions Chicken Inn have come under attack for scoring fewer goals this season.
Chicken Inn scored 45 goals.
The Herald Senior Sports Editor - Robson Sharuko today said the top-flight league has lost the glitter of its golden past.
He said in 1986, Moses Chunga scored a massive 46 goals 'when the Zimbabwe football legend destroyed defences in a landmark season for him'.
Wrote the Herald "That an entire team, good enough to be crowned champions of this country, fails to score more goals than just one individual, will certainly be used, by those who say that our top-flight league is losing its glitter, to justify their claims.
"And that only one team, during the 2015 Castle Lager Premiership campaign, FC Platinum, scored more goals than Chunga did, when he set the benchmark in 1986, is embarrassing for a league that should represent excellence on the domestic football scene".
It said CAPS United scored 79 goals en-route to winning the league championship in 2004.
Their bitter rivals Dynamos, who won four straight league titles before they were dethroned by Chicken Inn this season, scored 36 goals in the league this year, 10 short of Chunga's record haul 19 years ago, when the man they now call Bambo was leading their star-studded attack.
Incredibly, DeMbare's 36 league goals this season was an improvement given that the Glamour Boys scored 34 goals in the league championship race last year, on their way to winning a fourth straight crown and matching the achievements of the Dynamos Class of 1980-1983 which also won four straight league titles.
Chicken Inn scored 45 goals.
The Herald Senior Sports Editor - Robson Sharuko today said the top-flight league has lost the glitter of its golden past.
He said in 1986, Moses Chunga scored a massive 46 goals 'when the Zimbabwe football legend destroyed defences in a landmark season for him'.
Wrote the Herald "That an entire team, good enough to be crowned champions of this country, fails to score more goals than just one individual, will certainly be used, by those who say that our top-flight league is losing its glitter, to justify their claims.
"And that only one team, during the 2015 Castle Lager Premiership campaign, FC Platinum, scored more goals than Chunga did, when he set the benchmark in 1986, is embarrassing for a league that should represent excellence on the domestic football scene".
It said CAPS United scored 79 goals en-route to winning the league championship in 2004.
Their bitter rivals Dynamos, who won four straight league titles before they were dethroned by Chicken Inn this season, scored 36 goals in the league this year, 10 short of Chunga's record haul 19 years ago, when the man they now call Bambo was leading their star-studded attack.
Incredibly, DeMbare's 36 league goals this season was an improvement given that the Glamour Boys scored 34 goals in the league championship race last year, on their way to winning a fourth straight crown and matching the achievements of the Dynamos Class of 1980-1983 which also won four straight league titles.
Source - Byo24News
