Letters to the Sports Editor ... GFA executive overstepping its boundary

Letters to the Sports Editor … GFA executive overstepping its boundary

Nov 05, 2012 Sports

Dear Editor,
THE decision by the executive of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) to invite teams from outside its jurisdiction to participate in its second edition of the Banks DIH- sponsored Knockout Competition (yearend) in essence is a clear indication that the executive is bent on being disruptive rather than proactive.
This comes against the backdrop that the association, which isn’t an affiliate of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), presently cannot take it upon itself to communicate with clubs from other associations without duly informing the respective parent bodies.
Once the approval is granted for participation, with the relevant conditionality’s in place, the GFF grants approval pertaining to its conditionality’s, some of which are as follows:
Lodging of prize monies, or a Letter of Intent from a reputable sponsor, honouring payments of prizes; Copies of rules and fixtures; Payment of Levy Fees; Officiating personnel from the Guyana Football Referees Council; Adequate security, inclusive of uniformed police; Ambulatory service; Medical personnel, including stretcher and bearers; and the prohibition of beverage sales in glass bottles.
Editor, the mere idea that the GFA executive was granted an injunction in the High Court restraining the GFF from meddling in its internal affairs; reciprocally, the GFA then ought not to meddle in the internal affairs of affiliates of the GFF by way of invitation for participation in its tournament, since it can be construed to be a miscarriage of the very judicial system it sought solace in! The biggest display of public tomfoolery emanates from none other than the GFA President, who was quoted in the S.N. publication of 20.10.12 in an article captioned “GFA in talks with Linden Football Association for parallel tournament”, wherein the GFA President was quoted as saying: “The GFA was still negotiating with the Linden Football Association.
We are still in talks with Linden, and as you are aware, Linden has no proper facility to play high quality intensity Football right now, and we have been open to them”.
Editor, is the GFA President sincere in his comments, or was he misinterpreted? To the best of my knowledge, football in that region is governed by the” Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA), and definitely not the LFA”! So, to whom is Burnett speaking? And what facilities are there in Georgetown to play high quality intensity football! Is it GFC, where one has to stand; or Tucville, running the risk of being mugged when matches are finished!
Definitely it cannot be the GDF or police grounds, since if this were so, matches in the GFA Premium Beer League would have been played at those venues along with Camptown and UG in pursuit of completing the competition within an adequate time frame.
And by the way, which referees, assistants and fourth officials are to be used? Definitely not from those affiliated to the GFA, as many of them are unfit and ignorant of the Laws of the Game.
Is the UDFA that stupid to run the risk of being banned by the GFF to participate in an unsanctioned parallel tournament that would be conflicting with the Annual Kashif and Shanghai K.O., which over the years has become a permanent fixture on the GFF’s annual calendar of activities?
Orin Davis

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