Simple: Berekum Arsenal Should Be Promoted

An Idiomatic expression reads, “One man’s meat is another man’s poison” and the announcement on the Ethics committees ruling on the bribery allegation involving Techiman city and Wa Africa united during the 2014/15 GN Bank division one season confirms that adage with Berekum Arsenal and Real Tamale United fighting over who replaces the Techiman club in the premier league for the upcoming 2015/16 season.

 

The Ethics committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) yesterday officially brought over months of investigation into the allegations to an end but the verdict has not gone down too well with Techiman City who had been accused by Wa Africa United for offering an amount of Ghc2000 (Two thousand Ghana cedis) as bribe to play a match of convenience in match-week 22 of last seasons DOL.

Flashback: Berekum Arsenal host Hearts of Oak in a premier league game before their relegation to division one.

Douglas Effah, the general secretary of Berekum Arsenal a former premier league side has argued out for his to be awarded automatic promotion instead of Real Tamale United who finished in 2nd place to the demoted Techiman city in Zone 3 of the division one.

 

In an interview with Kumasi based, Boss fm, Effah stated, “The rule states clearly the promotion of the second placed team herein Real Tamale United (RTU) after the demotion of Techiman city (who topped Zone B) the second placed team – RTU should be promoted immediately but in this case the third placed team, Berekum Arsenal had  better results in games involving the two and that is the essence of the head-to-head ruling.

 

“If the head-to-head ruling isn’t effective then what is the importance of it been applied to relegate a team during a season? As we knew this (demotion of Techiman City) we’ve been preparing for the new premier league season and hopefully the FA doesn’t give us limited time of just two days to register our players else… In the spirit of fair play we’ll ask the FA for time to register and finish preparation as we’re not to be blamed for the mess created,” he added.

 

The ethic committee ruling demoted both Techiman city and Wa Africa united to division 3 of Ghana football.

Simple: Berekum Arsenal Should Be Promoted