Veteran Ghanaian sports journalist and administrator, Osei Owusu Bempah has described the steady decline of Asante Kotoko as worrying, and that the once-dominant club has fallen behind its peers in terms of development and progress.

The Porcupine Warriors had their head coach Karim Zito resigning few days before game against Hearts of oak, a development that highlights technical crisis at the club.

The club went on to lose to Hearts of Oak on Sunday in the Super Clash, which has prompted widespread criticism of the Kotoko management.

“Quite sad and regretful, some of the things that I've seen Kotoko go through the last decade, and probably more suddenly, Bempah said in an interview with Luv FM.

“I saw growing up as a child, a Kotoko team that was competing with the best on the continent, Al Ahly, Zamalek, all these other clubs.

“Kotoko won the second African Cup in 1983 at the time that Al Ahly had just won once, and none of the North African teams had won even more than one at a time and now, about 40 years down the line, we fallen behind.

“I'm talking behind in terms of development, in terms of almost everything that makes football team attractive, probably something that will take the team Kotoko, probably the next century to be able to overcome; it's quite sad,” he added.