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

Mohammedan Sporting, however, in an official statement by MSC General Secretary Sheikh Wasim Akram to PTI, confirmed that the club sacked the coach and said: "We have sacked our coach with immediate effect. He was not a team man and was facing issues with our assistant coach, goalkeeping coach, manager. Every day we were getting several complaints against him. He also leaked my conversations by taking screenshots. I will take legal action against him." The club has now announced that assistant coach Syed Ramon will take charge of the team in the remainder of the 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 - the same hotel where Mohammedan and other team’s players have been put up - that the ex-Minerva players were being asked to fix matches on the directions of Ranjit Bajaj.

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

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

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Image credits: Yan Law Twitter