MUMBAI, FEB 15: Don Bosco School, Matunga today served a legal notice on Mumbai Schools Sports Association (MSSA), asking the latter to withdraw a suspension notice issued to the school's hockey coach - ex-international BS Kuttapa - within 24 hours. The notice argued the suspension notice, debarring the Bosco coach from officiating till `further notice,' was bad in law.Fr Edward D'Souza, principal, Don Bosco, said the institution was forced to take the decision after MSSA had delayed the punitive action against his coach. The delay had caused the school to miss the coach's services for nearly four months.MSSA has called an emergency meeting tomorrow to discuss the legal notice. MSSA president Alex Vaz said the association ``would do what had to be done.'' Admitting there had been a delay in issuing the notice, MSSA officials explained the executive committee, which was to take the decision, could meet only on February 11. One official said the controversy would never have taken such proportions if theDon Bosco management had issued an apology when the coach was initially pulled up for `questioning the referees and abusing them.'While the war of words between MSSA and Don Bosco escalated, a consensus was brewing in the hockey community that the two parties should sit across the table and arrive at some compromise. An Olympian said the two parties should thrash out the issue, with senior players as intermediaries. The Bombay Hockey Association said it had nothing to do with the issue as the MSSA was not affiliated to it.
