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With Asante Kotoko's splendid show in the 2011-2012 Glo Premier League that has won them the cup four matches in advance; it is really a rude shock to their supporters that the porcupines have been knocked out of the FA Cup by unsung Amidaus Professionals from Tema. They say it never rains but pours.
Another disturbing news is that researchers have found a mistake in the tally of Kotoko's league triumphs. Indeed the tally is 21 not 22 if you add the 2011-2012 triumph. But the good news is that it is still a national record.
Veteran sports journalist Ken Bediako who is Managing Editor of Kotoko Express in his research for his upcoming comprehensive history of the National League from 1958- 2012 has confirmed loud whispers in football circles that the tally might be wrong among a lot of facts and figures concerning the league.
It has been detected that the 1967-1968 league which traveled a record 19 months from February 1967 September 1968 was credited as two seasons with Kotoko winning both when in fact it was one marathon season perhaps the longest in the world.
In an exclusive interview, Ken admitted that he had been trying to solve the puzzle by going through the archives several times to unravel the mystery surrounding the 1967-68 season which appeared to be a case study of how not to run a league, when a young KNUST graduate researcher, Thomas Freemim Yeboah of Asempa FM fame called to confer about a similar puzzle he had detected with the 67-68 league. After comparing notes it was realized that the first round ended with Kotoko leading the pack with 33 points followed by Olympics with 29.
The second round which started three months later was abridged after eight weeks with nine more matches to go when Kotoko were leading with 47 points followed by Hearts.
It was quite a fascinating season as captured in the upcoming book by Ken and with his kind permission he has authorized us to reproduce from his fact filled book the intriguing story of the 1967-68 season for the benefit of football fans and the sporting press.
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