There is an adage which says twice bitten twice shy, but for B/A Stars despite having already suffered severely by the GFA Disciplinary Committee for a assault the in their Glo Ghana Edubiase match at the Sunyani Coronation Park, they have once again repeated the act of referee beating.
This time the venue was the Berekum Golden City Park where a horrible scene was recorded as football turned out to be a jungle bring to an abrupt end the FA Cup match involving a Division Two side Friction B and of course Premiership side B/A Stars.
The officials on duty Frank Yarson (Obuasi),Fuseini lbrahim(Obuasi) and the victim referee Sephas Barlow he too from Obuasi, throughout the game, in a candid assessment, scored a point of zero as all their decisions were against B/A Stars in regulation time.
The victor of the game eventually had to be decided via the lottery of penalty shoot-out where the game ended abruptly because the B/A Stars lads could no longer take the fact that the referees twice ordered a replay of the home team (Friction B) penalty kicks, whenever B/A Stars goalkeeper made a save.
Referee Sephas Barlow was brutally beaten into coma by a B/A Stars official, Atta Magazine as he is popularly known. The supporters of Friction B also turned their anger on the aforementioned BA Stars official who assaulted the referee and beat him up mercilessly.
The big question is cant B/A Stars learn their lessons? Or is the GFA Disciplinary Committee’s punishment for assaulting referees in Ghana so lenient and non-reforming?
Too many questions, so few answers.
Credit: Raymond Yeboah, reporting from Berekum
