DISILLUSIONED basketball manager Fung Shiu-wai will turn his attention to soccer, despite winning an appeal and having a three-year basketball ban reduced to six months.
The Hongkong Basketball Association's disciplinary committee slapped the ban on the Frankwell manager for pulling out his team midway through a Senior Shield match against Regal on May 30 following a refereeing dispute. They also handed the club a two-year suspended sentence.
Frankwell chairman Wilson Lai Chan-kau, however, appealed on Fung's behalf and threatened to pull out of Hongkong basketball, saying that the club and its manager were ''inseparable''.
An appeal board, headed by HKBA president Cham Siu-lam, met on Saturday and reduced the sentence to six months which effectively is no penalty as all major professional competitions for 1993 have finished.
But the outspoken Fung said: ''I knew the result even before the meeting and it was aimed at saving face for the disciplinary committee.
''I still feel that the only fair decision would be to issue me with a stern warning. As an act of protest I have withdrawn my club Southerland from Division II.'' Fung has not decided whether he will remain as Frankwell's basketball manager next year.