Following three straight away losses in their Nigeria Premier League games, the management of Shooting Stars Football Club (3Sc)have asked Festus Allen to step down as coach of the Ibadan-based team.
3Sc completed an hat-trick of loses when they fell 1-0 to former League champions Heartland on Sunday. Before that the club lost 2-0 to Kaduna and 3-0 to Kano Pillars in a mid-week feature. The losses mean the "Oluyole Warriors" reside at the 19th position on the League table with just 17 points in 15 matches.
Allen, who took over from Fatai Amoo at the beginning of the 2011/2012 season, will be replaced temporarily by his assistants, Tunde Odubola and Busari Akeem, ahead of Thursday's home game with Kwara United.
Meanwhile, Enyimba FC's striker Gbolahan Salami have said the club owe Amoo an apology for how he was eased out of the club.
Salami, who joined the Peoples Elephant from 3SC at the close of the League last season, said the club was wrong to have fired Amoo after he saved them from relegation last season.
“The 3SC management need to apologise to Amoo if they need to start getting positive results this season,” he said. "He saved the team from the relegation zone last season and finished with 11th on the table, but where are Shooting Stars this season with the re-organisation they carried out on the team? Amoo is a very good coach and he did nothing wrong when they fired him before the commencement of this season.”
"Personally, Amoo is still the best man for Shooting Stars because he knows how to handle the younger ones and I can tell you if he is given a free hand to work and enough funds to buy players, the sky will be a limit for 3SC.”
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