{"id":17209,"date":"2019-12-24T20:15:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T18:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=17209"},"modified":"2019-12-24T20:15:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T18:15:40","slug":"herentals-could-be-relegated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/herentals-could-be-relegated","title":{"rendered":"Herentals could be relegated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Herentals have been forced to put their celebrations for surviving relegation on hold after another match-fixing charge was laid on them recently.<\/p>\n<p>The Students are being accused of manipulating the game against Bulawayo Chiefs which saved them from relegation on the last day of the campaign. They have another similar case which is still pending after allegedly \u201cbuying\u201d the 3-0 win against Black Rhinos in October.<\/p>\n<p>Chiefs are claiming that an official from the Harare-based club first made overtures to \u201cbribe\u201d coach Thulani Sibanda before turning to the players after the gaffer dismissed their approaches.<\/p>\n<p>The game ended 1-0 in favour of Herentals.<\/p>\n<p>PSL chief executive officer Kennedy Ndebele told the Chronicle that a verdict will be passed after the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs for the outcome of the Herentals disciplinary hearing for the alleged match manipulation against Black Rhinos, we are still waiting for the disciplinary committee to deliver its verdict,\u201d said Ndebele.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s also true that investigations are ongoing after Bulawayo Chiefs raised match-fixing allegations against Herentals after the final match of the season. The league will release a statement soon after the holidays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If found guilty in any of the two cases, Herentals are likely to be docked points which will leave them in the relegation zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herentals have been forced to put their celebrations for surviving relegation on hold after another match-fixing charge was laid on them recently. The Students are being accused of manipulating the game against Bulawayo Chiefs which saved them from relegation on the last day of the campaign. They have another similar case which is still pending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":17210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[560,229],"class_list":{"0":"post-17209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-sport","9":"tag-psl","10":"tag-sibanda"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Herentals could be relegated - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Herentals have been forced to put their celebrations for surviving relegation on hold after another match-fixing charge was laid on them\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/herentals-could-be-relegated\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Herentals could be relegated\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Herentals have been forced to put their celebrations for surviving relegation on hold after another match-fixing charge was laid on them\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/herentals-could-be-relegated\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-24T18:15:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2019\/12\/Innocent-Benza-Herentals-1280x640-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/herentals-could-be-relegated\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/herentals-could-be-relegated\",\"name\":\"Herentals could be relegated - 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