New Delhi: The special committe’s recommendation to remove him as India’s hockey coach did not come as a surprise to Paul van Ass, who said an “autocratic” Hockey India president Narinder Batra was just finding ways to officially sack him after the onfield spat in Antwerp. The nine-member committee headed by Harbinder Singh, formed to decide on his future, yesterday recommended that Van Ass, who had claimed that he has been fired following his altercation with Batra, should not be continued.

Paul van Ass