Hearts fans were quick to press the panic button

I think that the fans of Accra Hearts of Oak were too quick to draw conclusions, after the 34 year Portuguese trainers took charge of the dugout of the oldest existing club in the country.

In a way they could be pardoned for pouring out their anger, following the decision of the board and management to part ways with Coach Kenichi Yatsuhashi, despite putting up an incredible performance in the league, with his side lying 4th at the time of his exit.

I share their sentiment that the board took a decision which was not acceptable and it a high time Hearts of Oak got to refrain from letting coaches leave in the middle of a football season. It started with David Duncan when they parted ways with him over disciplinary reasons and again did it to Kenichi Yatsuhashi for the same reason and I think they could have massaged those issues, because the club was doing well on the field of play then.

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However, that is not good enough reason for the fans to call for the heads of the technical team, management and board of the team. At least Kenichi Yatsuhashi should have been a case study for the fans, since he wasn’t accepted when he took over, but proved his critics wrong by letting his work answer them and rose to fame to become fans favourite.

Traguil took over the club, with little or no knowledge of the team and after just three games in charge, the impatient followers of the Phobians started crying foul about the performance of the new gaffer, forgetting that it was this same coach who led the team to display an eye pleasing football in his debut league game, when they piped Dream FC by a goal to nil.

Hearts, following that win drew against Liberty Professionals, who had outplayed the Phobians and won 1-0 in the first round on a day the Scientific Soccer lads could have beaten Hearts of Oak 5-0, if they had taken their chances against Kenichi Yatsuhashi’s side.

The Portuguese third game was against Aduana Stars: a side that have so much quality in their team and I thought Hearts of Oak who had already lost three home league games in the first round under the Japanese trainer were not new to poor results at home. Instead of keeping to their cool they grouped in batches and called for the heads of the coach, management and board.

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Some even went to the extent of saying that Vincent Sowah Odotei, the head of the Strategic Committee of Hearts of Oak is mismanaging the club because of his political affiliation and hauled insults on the hierarchy of the club.

And just after a week, the same Sergio Traguil that the supporters wanted his sack, propelled them to a famous victory at Essipong when they forced a bitter pill down the throat of the hosts Hasaacas to walk away with all the three maximum points and consequently moved top of the Ghana Premier League table.

As the saying goes, human beings have short memories, the fans of Hearts of Oak, who should have bowed their heads down in shame for being took quick to judge rather went gay, expressing their feelings on various social media platforms and also called in to radio programmes to congratulate their darling club for the hard fought victory at Sekondi and climaxed it by assuming the top spot of the Ghana Premier League.

Hearts of Oak fans should be good losers and get it that there are three things involved in the game they have decided to follow: win, draw and defeat. They should be ready to embrace any of them and hope for better days to come in the future.

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This is the time they have to rally behind the team by ensuring they fill the Ohene Djan Sports Stadium to its full capacity to cheer on the team to victory, because this is an opportunity for them to end their trophy drought. Hearts of Oak last won the Ghana Premier League in the 2008-09 season and this is a season that the club seems to have got things right, having moved to the top of the league table twice on different occasions and are enjoying an invincible feat in their away league games, a situation that only few teams across the world witness.