Sheriffs took away the team bus from Malawi’s FCB Nyasa Big Bullets, the reigning champions, just a day after the players had refused to report for duty.

This occurs as the team’s performance has significantly declined; it currently sits fifth in the log table with only three victories in ten league games.

It all began on Tuesday when athletes balked at working out in protest at meeting club president Konrad Buckle.

The players stated that they needed to meet with the new club president because the team’s standards had dropped.

“Last week while in Lilongwe we were forced to sleep at a bad lodge and there was no explanation whatsoever. This is why we are demanding to meet the president to hear from him,” one player said.

Players at the training base in Blantyre on Wednesday morning refused to speak with the club’s vice president, Escort Chinula, who had taken Fleetwood Haiya’s place as a FAM president.

“One player stood and told him that we do not want to talk to him but the president. After a lengthy conversation, players understood and they later talked to him,” said the source.

After the conversation players resumed training as they prepared to travel to Lilongwe to face Kamuzu Barracks over the weekend.

“It is an old matter which happened in 2016” Chigoga.

The team’s chief administration officer Albert Chigoga said the matter at hand was a case which happened in 2016 when the team had not gone into commercialization drive.

“That leadership fired our former coach Franco Ndawa just 6 months after he was hired. He went to court and won the case. We were fined K25 million, but we wanted to make an appeal, while we were working on the same, that’s when we saw sheriff’s coming to get the bus,” he said.

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The bus spent a night at Malawi’s high court in Blantyre. Meanwhile Chigoga later told the media that the Club had paid the money and will get the bus back.