New Delhi, Apr. 23 (ANI): Indian football team coach Bob Houghton resigned from his post on Saturday, two years before his contract with the All India Football Federation (AIFF) was to end.
Houghton, who was being paid 30, 000 dollars a month for his services, was facing a racial abuse charge from referee Dinesh Nair. Houghton has denied all charges levelled against him by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) and has termed the allegations of racial abuse as ‘baseless’ in a written submission made to a three-member committee.
Houghton has raised questions over the timing of the racial charges levelled against him, stressing that the incident took place six months ago and there was no mention of the incident till now. Apart from the racism allegation, the AIFF is also upset with India’s ‘poor performance’ under Houghton’s regime.
Sources within the federation said the officials were keen to leverage the racism charge to get rid of the South Africa-based Englishman with immediate effect.
Last month, the executive committee had decided to initiate the process to sack Houghton on charges of racial remarks against referee Dinesh Nair during India’s friendly against Yemen in Pune in October last year and ‘derogatory’ comments against Indian football. The Englishman was accused by Nair of calling him ‘b**** Indian referee’.
Summarily sacking him would also resulted in forking out a severance pay packet of over Rs 3.2 crore. (ANI
Houghton has raised questions over the timing of the racial charges levelled against him, stressing that the incident took place six months ago and there was no mention of the incident till now. Apart from the racism allegation, the AIFF is also upset with India’s ‘poor performance’ under Houghton’s regime.
Sources within the federation said the officials were keen to leverage the racism charge to get rid of the South Africa-based Englishman with immediate effect.
Last month, the executive committee had decided to initiate the process to sack Houghton on charges of racial remarks against referee Dinesh Nair during India’s friendly against Yemen in Pune in October last year and ‘derogatory’ comments against Indian football. The Englishman was accused by Nair of calling him ‘b**** Indian referee’.
Summarily sacking him would also resulted in forking out a severance pay packet of over Rs 3.2 crore. (ANI
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