14-minute Hardrock versus Dynamos replay to go ahead.

The controversial resumption of the match between Hardrock and Dynamos will go ahead as scheduled tomorrow after the Zimbabwe Football Association Appeals Committee dismissed the Kwekwe-based side’s urgent request for a stay of execution.

Hardrock had lodged an appeal against a ruling that ordered them to, among other punitive measures, replay the final 14 minutes of their violently abandoned fixture against Dynamos. 

The legal maneuver had briefly plunged the resumption—scheduled to take place at the neutral Baobab Stadium—into deep uncertainty.

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