Mohammedan Sporting sack head coach Yan Law amid match fixing allegations

Mohammedan Sporting on Sunday parted ways with head coach Yan Law despite Law helping team win both ir games and pick up six points from two games. Yan Law was sacked on charges of 'leaking personal conversations'. However, on his part,  youngest AFC A License holder coach in Indian football maintains that he has resigned as head coach of club. Yan Law took to Twitter to confirm development. "I have resigned as Head Coach of Mohammedan Sporting Club from I-league Qualifiers 2020. Best wishes to Club for remaining matches and ir future in I-league and ISL." 

Mohammedan Sporting, however, in an official statement by MSC General Secretary Sheikh Wasim Akram to PTI, confirmed that club sacked coach and said: "We have sacked our coach with immediate effect. He was t a team man and was facing issues with our assistant coach, goalkeeping coach, manr. Every day we were getting several complaints against him. He also leaked my conversations by taking screenshots. I will take legal action against him."  club has w anunced that assistant coach Syed Ramon will take charge of team in remainder of I-League Qualifiers. 

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Mohammedan SC match-fixing: Club officials hit out at Ranjit Bajaj's involvement 

Local dailies had claimed that former Punjab FC owner Ranjit Bajaj, who was staying at Hyatt Regency -  same hotel where Mohammedan and or team’s players have been put up - that ex-Minerva players were being asked to fix matches on directions of Ranjit Bajaj.

However, Ranjit Bajaj refuted claims and said that it is a mere coincidence that he was staying in same hotel and that he was in Kolkata as part of Minerva's trial and scouting activities for Delhi FC. 

Ranjit Bajaj has w filed a case of 'criminal and civil defamation case' under Section 499 in Indian Penal Code against Mohammedan SC's higher authorities, Dipendu Biswas & Wasim Akram, along with two Bengali newspapers.

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Im credits: Yan Law Twitter