Ghanaian Parliamentarian Sam George has advised the Ghana Football Association to deal with match-fixing and poor officiating issues in order to ensure the domestic-topflight league gets the needed sponsorship.
The Ghana Premier League has been running without a headline sponsor for the past four seasons.
According to the Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, improving officiating will be very key in ensuring the Ghana Premier League gets the right investments.
“I would support calls for investments into the premier league on one condition, that if the FA would do the right things, and the right things means we can’t invest money in a league where the referees are substandard, referees make all kinds of dubious calls.” , he told GNA
He also mentioned that the GFA should also concentrate on dealing with the alleged match-fixing claims in the league.
“You can’t just throw money into a league where at times people are fixing matches, you can clearly see that something fishy and funny is going on, the league needs to be cleaned up to attract investors,” he said.
“When you have world class officiating, when you have proper structures at the GFA, it would automatically attract investments, for example the penalty awarded against Hearts of Oak against Kotoko, how is that a penalty”.
Sam George is a staunch support of Ghanaian giants Hearts of Oak
