Story: Akwasi Ampratwum-Mensah, Sunyani
The management of Berekum Arsenal Football Club has denied media reports that fans of the club attacked Tema Youth and destroyed the rear windscreen of their bus after their Onetouch Premier League encounter at the Golden City Park in Berekum last Sunday.
The club explained that while the driver of the club’s bus was driving out of the park, part of the rear windscreen came into contact with a sharp edge of the narrow gate, and that resulted in the whole system dropping off to the ground.
In a rejoinder to a publication in the Daily Graphic on Monday, the Public Relations Officer, Mr Daniel Anim-Larbi, indicated that the chairman of Arsenal, Alhaji Yakubu, and police personnel escorted the team to their bus and as the driver drove off, the unfortunate accident happened.
The club insisted that at no point did the fans of Arsenal attack the players, neither did they throw stones and other missiles at the bus with the aim of vandalising it.
According to the rejoinder, Arsenal’s own bus suffered a similar fate at the same gate sometime past as their driver was leaving the park due to the narrow nature of that particular gate.
The club argued that if indeed the fans threw stones at the bus, there would rather have been cracks on the glasses and not the whole frame dropping off to the ground as it happened.
“The driver could not drive carefully through the main gates leading to the park and that apparently resulted in the destruction of the rear windscreen”, the statement stressed.
According to the club, the Daily Graphic headline, “Arsenal fans attack Tema Youth”, therefore had no basis or any concrete evidence and rather sought to paint the name of the club black.
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