The game is governed by laws, so ideas and opinions don’t matter when there are laws and must be applied. The FA acted on article 78 to cancel the league and there is no other law that states that clubs are to pay fines after cancellation of a league
Lawyer Ntow Fianko
Legal adviser to Berekum Arsenal, Lawyer Ntow Fianko, says the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has no right to punish any club if they refuse to pay any fine imposed on them .
The legal luminary says a cancelled league in other words is a league that wasn’t played at all, hence the cancellation of the 2019/2020 Ghana Premier League has quashed out all outstanding cases including fines.
Clubs have raised agitation over fines and charges that are due to be settled after the football season was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
There were disciplinary cases involving players, administrators and clubs in the just annulled football season. Some involved fines to clubs which the FA feels must be settled even though the season has been cancelled.
Ntow Fianko, who has been in the football business for more than two decades claims there are no statutes or regulations that allows clubs to pay fines after a season is annulled.
He says his team, Berekum Arsenal will not pay any of their fines and urged other clubs not to pay any fine imposed on them by the Football Association following the cancellation of the league.
“The game is governed by laws, so ideas and opinions don’t matter when there are laws and they must be applied. The FA acted on article 78 to cancel the league and there is no other law that states that clubs are to pay fines after cancellation of a league,” he stated.
The Ghana Football Association last week cancelled the football season which includes the Ghana Premier League, the FA Cup, the Women’s League and all levels of football in the country amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mustapha Hadji
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