“How will the league ever acquire sponsors again if refereeing performances like yesterday’s become the standard”?- Accra Lions bemoans poor officiating

Ghana Premier League side Accra Lions have in a long thread on X, expressed their displeasure about the poor stage of Ghana football and bad officiating in their games in the ongoing league season.

This follows 1-0 narrow defeat to Dreams FC on Sunday at the Tuba Astro Turf where they felt officiating was intentionally orchestrated to their disadvantage.

In a post chanced on by AhotorSports, the club stated that amidst a number of bad calls, referee Maxwell Hanson and his assistants Gabriel Boateng and Alhassan Abdulai Grucullo, combined to show Edmond Amakye in the 63rd minute of the game describing the call as scandal.

Accra Lions have just two wins from sixteen games and lie the last but one position with an accumulated thirteen points.

Club’s statement in a thread on X below

“We owe it a duty to our fans, the football community and the public to express our concern about recent developments in the Ghanaian football landscape.”

“In our opinion, the results at the international level is a reflection of the development at the local level.”

“We are playing our fourth season in Ghana’s top division and unfortunately we have to admit that the conditions are steadily deteriorating.”

“There is now no sponsor for the league, nor has a television contract been negotiated at this point.”

“How will the league ever acquire sponsors again if refereeing performances like yesterday’s become the standard and any criticism is immediately sanctioned by the association?”

“Lots of incidents and happenings have gone unattended, an experience that has left us with more questions than answers.”

“Such tendencies continues to chip away every sense of the definition of the trust our esteemed fans and the public have reposed in us”

”Ghana football is at a crossroads. If we want to get back to our old strength, it requires a minimum of integrity, professionalism, transparency and sportsmanship”

“As the reigning runner-up of the Ghana Premier League we see it as our duty not to stand idly by”.

“We have consistently committed ourselves to working with young players and must be allowed to raise the question of whether the Ghana Premier League, as we are experiencing it these days, is a healthy environment for highly talented young players who should develop a proper sporting spirit and a winning mentality to make them internationally competitive.”

“We are determined to join whichever group or organization(s) to make the sport a clean one and better for healthy competition”.

“We have resolved to stand by the games principle of FairPlay and speak truth to power”

Lions have had Yaw Acheampong replaced their former manager Paa Kwesi Fabin resigned over poor run of results last month.

The new manager have lost all his first two games in charge.(3-2 to Hearts of Oak and 1-0 to Dreams FC)