Counsel for the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Mr Tanko Amadu, on Tuesday agreed to an interim injunction, instead of a perpetual one, to be placed on any play-off matches until sanctions imposed on premier club Real Tamale United (RTU) by the GFA and confirmed by its disciplinary committee have been fully served and complied with.
Amadu assured the court, presided over by Mrs Justice Iris Heward-Mills, that intended play-off matches have been postponed indefinitely. The GFA has also filed a motion of notice to dismiss the writ for "non disclosure of reasonable course of action and lack of capacity to sue", which is scheduled to be heard at the court on November 27.
Amadu's stand follows a writ for a perpetual injunction filed by Mr Edumadzi Essuman and Mr Edumadzi Essuman Amanfo, staunch supporters and financiers of Cape Coast Mysterious Dwarfs.
The two prayed the court for a perpetual injunction to restrain the GFA, the National Sports Council (Cape Coast) and their agents and servants, among others, from organising any play-off matches, and for an order for a replay of the RTU-Dwarfs match played at Tamale on August 23 on a neutral ground.
The two supporters filed the writ to summon their own club, the GFA and the Sports Council to answer questions on how Dwarfs slipped into relegation.
In their statement of claim, they argued that the football association's action and conduct in altering and tampering with the sanctions imposed on RTU amounts to a serious breach and flagrant violation of Article 41 (1) of the GFA regulations.
They said by ordering Dwarfs to honour the match at Tamale, the GFA showed its bias against the club and gave unfair advantage to the RTU thereby seriously affecting the "fortunes of Dwarfs, and therefore prayed the court to quash the purported relegation of Dwarfs from the premier league.
