Oluboi Commodore laments on the Ghana FA's decision to abrogate 2019/20 football season

Published on: 02 July 2020

General Manager of Accra Great Olympics has expressed his displeasure following the decision by the Executive Council of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to cancel the 2019/2020 season.

The outbreak of the coronavirus has brought football to its knees since mid-March.

According to Mr Commodore, he is saddened by the decision.

He further added that league should have been abridged to formalise all the results gathered so far because the league had already started and that the pandemic made it difficult for it to continue.

He noted that what happened was a force majeure, hence all the matches should have been played to close the season.

Speaking to Graphic Sports, he said, “If the ExCO has cancelled the league in the midst of the Coronavirus, are we going to play the 2020/ 2021 season with or without the pandemic cases still increasing,” he questioned.

“It would have been better to abridge the league for all the results to stand and allow the first two teams on top of the league to represent Ghana in the CAFChampions League and the Confederation Cup, so a decision would be taken on clubs who find themselves at the bottom of the table.

Mr Commodore noted that many Division One clubs had been seeking qualification to the premiership in the past three seasons but the Anas Number 12 incident and the pandemic made it impossible.

“Clubs have spent money on players and are not getting any benefit from their investment,” he lamented.

The former Black Stars management committee member also questioned the brain behind the GFA’s decision to expunge all records associated with the season and emphasised that all fines accruing to the teams also needed not be honoured.

“If no records would be available on the 2019/2020 season, it cannot be possible for a club to pay any fine.

“We need to be compensated by the GFA. We have invested a lot of resources for the season and it cannot go waste because the league has been called off,” he stressed.

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