BB fans run amok after Carlsberg Cup ejection

Malawi Police fired tear gas and bullets in the air at Mzuzu Stadium on Saturday in an attempt to stop Big Bullets FC supporters who had gone on the rampage following the team’s ejection from the Carlsberg Cup.

Bullets, who last week vowed to grab the K20 million (about $66 666) Carlsberg Cup, lost 2-1 to Northern Region Football League (NRFL) Premier Division side Super Eagles. 

Madalitso Chiumia was the first to shake Bullets’ net in the eighth minute before Steven Mbale doubled the lead in the 16th minute to force the visitors to come from break with Owen Chaima as their new goalkeeper instead of out-of-form Swadick Sanudi.

But Heston Munthali pulled one back four minutes into the second-half.

“I said earlier on that BB must keep their fame in Blantyre and not in the North because we are the giants here and it has happened,” said the Eagles team manager Phillip Banda.

But Eagles’ celebrations were cut short as angry bullets fans resorted to violence, beating up every Eagles fan that chanted anti-Bullets songs.

One of the victims, Kondwani Kachali Nyirenda, was probably left for the dead, but thanks to national Under-20 team doctor Wisdom Kalibwe Mkandawire who was handy to help him.

Efforts to talk to Bullets FC coach Eddingtone Ng’onamo and his assistant Gerald Phiri proved futile as they could not be traced after the game.

But the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) executive member Alexander Waya bemoaned the violence.