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More trouble for Premier League

More trouble for Premier League

The Ghana Premier League heads for deeper troubled waters as  Mysterious Ebusua Dwarfs have begun to fight back for their just place in the top tier competition.

The Oguaa club are in battle gear to hit the courts to contest the decisions by the GFA’s Disciplinary and Appeals Committees that condemned them to second placing from the bottom rungs of the league table and, therefore, relegation at the end of the season.

At his Villaggio residence in Accra yesterday at which the Director of Operations, John Ansah, was present, the CEO of Dwarfs, Nana Aidoo, told the Graphic Sports exclusively that the club would not let down the gauntlet in seeking redress.

According to Nana Aidoo, they would be seeking an interpretation of the GFA rule regarding unqualified players at the Cape Coast High Court in the coming weeks as they believed they were done in by the FA’s adjudication system in Dwarfs’ protest against Medeama SC, for fielding an unqualified player in their match at the Tarkwa T& A park last March.

He said Mohammed Muntari Tagoe, who kept the goal for Medeama in the said match, was ineligible as the license presented by the player and inspected was invalid, having expired since December 20, 2013.

“By article 27 4(c) of the GFA Regulations, if the contract of Mohammed Muntari Tagoe had been renewed or the term extended when it expired on December 20, 2013, it would have been obligatory on the part of Medeama to register him anew... For the avoidance of doubt, there shall be no re-registration of player(s) by validation of player(s) licenses”, Nana Aidoo quoted.

Incidentally, he pointed out, it was this article that the FA had listed among other proposed amendments to be tabled at the annual congress which, however, hit a snag following the court action by Alhaji Karim Gruzah of King Faisal over similar miscarriage of justice.

The proposed amendment to come as article 27(4) (d) would read thus: “A player shall not be registered anew or issued with a new licence where a club renews or extends the term of a player whose contract has expired in the course of a league season... For the avoidance of doubt, a player so affected shall continue to use his licence for the remainder of the season”.

Dwarfs contended that they could not suffer under the proposed or yet to be adopted regualation and that by the old or existing regulation which guided the last league season they should have won the protest against Medeama and not the other way round in addition to Dwarfs being fined as a consequence.

“Medeama would have lost six(6) points and dropped into the relegation zone on 34 points, while Dwarfs would have risen to 38 points, same as King Faisal, but we would have been out of relegation because of the head-to-head rule against Faisal whom we beat 1-0 at Oguaa but lost 1-2 to in Kumasi,” observed Mr Ansah.

Similarly, should Faisal’s protest hold, they would have gained more points to be out of relegation, while Aduana Stars, against whom they had protested, would have lost points and dropped to the abyss.

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