Clubs urged to provide sitting facilities to accredited pressmen

Accra, April 27, GNA - The Premier League Board (PLB) has requested all Clubs which have no properly demarcated sitting facilities for the press to do so with effect from the second round the 2008/2009 Premier League to ensure effective coverage of events.

The Board said the Clubs should provide at least benches

opposite the tribune of every playing field for use of accredited

pressmen to give them conduvice of coverage of matches. Mr Kwaku Ampin-Darko, Deputy General Secretary of the Ghana Football Association who said this in a press release copied to GNA Sports explained that press men who qualify to sit on the benches are those who wear accreditation tags issued by the Football authorities. He said Clubs that will be hosting League matches at their home grounds are therefore requested to comply with the directive which is aimed at bringing sanity into the operations of the press who enter the various stadia to undertake their assignments.

The release was copied to the Premier league Clubs, the Chief

Executive officer of the National Sports Council, Regional Football

Associations and Regional Sports Development Organisers.