Nato inquiry reaches dead end

Nato joined Rollers in February last year from Indian side, Atletico de Kolkata, a move which sparked the mother of all brawls, and shoved local football into an abyss. There were protests after protest in subsequent matches in which Nato featured in, with differing judgements on the cases.

Initially, the Botswana Premier League (BPL) Disciplinary Committee (DC) cleared Rollers of any wrong doing, but the Botswana Football Association (BFA) Disciplinary Committee (DC) overturned the decision, docking points and fining the club. This necessitated a play-off to close the drawn out saga where Rollers beat Chiefs to be crowned last season’s champions, in the most controversial of circumstances. Rollers, at the time of the play-off, had already taken the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Zurich, Switzerland.