Every Ghanaian is deeply saddened about the state of football in Ghana. From club level to national level and over the years they have sat and waited for the appointed administrators to do the right thing and to get their act in order. There has often been the belief that some may not be aware of the facts whereas in reality they are all aware of the facts. They simply perpetuate the fraud to the nation and have no guilty consciences to either do the right thing or bring about change!
The nation bleeds because the game, which we love and have been respected for globally, has been mismanaged. There were many who sought to dump all the wrong doings at the feet or door of E.T. Mensah and now that he is gone matters have rather deteriorated rapidly! The virus is from within. It is not from the very top. It is not from Government. It is from those who have made themselves almost as big as the institution itself and who have been in the seat throughout the years. Occasionally they play musical chairs but by and large they simply cling on the FA and attachments of the FA like barnacles…ugly and unproductive!
They are the mafia who determine fraudulently what happens or does not happen in Ghana soccer. It is they who drive away the sponsorship because of the way and manner in which they manage our game. Money begets money and money is not attracted to negative, persistent and unproductive controversy. This unfortunately is what surrounds our domestic league!
The integrity of our FA is almost at a point beyond discussion. Those who invest nothing and have nothing to lose and everything to gain make decisions and appointments to the nation’s detriment. They have been doing it since the advent of the professional league and they have refused to move with the changing times or the development of professionalism.
Year in and year out the game is brought into disrepute and condoned by the mafia. We have seen the fraudulent misuse of CAF and FIFA monies over the years and we have witnessed and been a part of the May 9th disaster and yet nothing has essentially changed at the FA. The incompetence and fraud has transcended politics moving from one political era into another. The sufferer has been Ghana and Ghanaian football! This year there are a number of incidents which any other FA would have taken strong action on and shown where it stands without waiting to go through a process which is designed by the very people who run matters to allow the status quo to remain unchanged. Indeed inaction and poor judgement is what has characterised the current FA.
Listen: 'Accept each other just as Christ has accepted you...' That means:
(a) admit that, as difficult as it may be, your current tactics don't work
(b) remember, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish...' (Proverbs 29:1 . Take time to create a concrete, mental picture of the kind of person you want to become
(c) work gradually on changing yourself, by adopting the Scriptural principles you'd like to integrate into your life.