Vice president of the Ghana football association and chairman of the Black stars management committee, George Akwasi Afriyie has had pop shot at Ghanaian club in relation to their attitude during the pre-match and post match session of game.
The Ghanaian league has delayed its start to the 2015/16 season due to legal wranglings involving newly promoted side, Techiman city and Wa African united and Wilfred Osei Palmer’s ineligible player case against Kurt Okraku Mantey’s Dreams FC.
Clubs in Ghana are noted for their weird and archaic motives when it comes to the release of team news and tactics to be employed by a coach going into a game and quiet often this negative ideas has to do with ‘juju’ – black magic. This semantics and childish play causes undue delay to games and at times a club’s refusal to play the game when money and resources have been invested into the match.
George Afriyie believes most clubs if not all tow this ‘cheap’ path due to the number of legal options available to them should they be punished – deducted points, banned from playing at their favourite home grounds or given a fine.
“We must enshrine just two legal options for clubs to have their cases heard and not the numerous options – appeals committee, review committee and court of arbitration (CAS) currently available, just two should do,” he said.
“A club attends a technical meeting and forgets to present the uniform (jersey) for the upcoming match should be deducted points meanwhile a body or someone has paid for media rights. A scheduled game to be broadcast on super sports at 3pm is delayed or called off because a club failed to submit a sample of the kit for the game. Is that sensible for a club to do?” he added.
The Ghana league us set to commence on Feb 20 but head od the legal team for Techiman City has threatened to serve the league with a court injunction should it start.
Ghanaian Clubs Got To Be Sensible - GFA Veep
