Aduana went to Obuasi to play Premier League football but they arrived back home in Dormaa with pains and agony as a result of maltreatment and assault allegedly suffered at the hands of thugs of Edubiase FC. Edubiase of course won the league match 1-0 but were never fair in the off-field tactics adopted, if we are to believe reports emanating from the Len Clay Stadium.

Where is Ghana football heading to? Has our lovely game now turned into hatred and animosity where each and every team avenges their spleen on their opponents as a pretext of revenge and is there anything like revenge in football? PLB and GFA will be in a better position to answer this.

How on earth could a whole sports journalist like Kofi Asare Brako, Abate they call him, openly engage in such unbelievable unprofessional acts? In his current position as communication director to New Edubiase, Abate is alleged to have openly admitted that his side, Edubiase, did not allow Aduana Stars to send water to the stadium because they felt it was their spiritual weapon?

What a world we live in! So someone like Abate who is supposed to know better, could also stoop so low to indulge in superstition, the very thing that is killing our game? His comments at his former radio station, Peace FM, to me was supporting the attacks on Aduana team because as he put it, Aduana did the same thing to them when they visited Dormaa in the first round.

I weep for our league if a so-called experienced journalist like Abate is throwing his support behind hooliganism. According to George Gyaw, management member of Aduana Stars, one of their supporters called Sulleyman lbrahim was brutally assaulted and one of his hands was severed with metal.

Technical member Kwasi Ankoman who had his name on the team sheet was thrown out of the stadium and all his belongings stolen.

Now Aduana have also sworn to take revenge on any team that comes to Dormaa for league games, beginning with this coming Sunday’s fixture against Sekondi Hasaacas if the PLB and GFA don’t do anything about last Sunday’s events at Obuasi.

The sad aspect of it all is that cameramen of OMP who were supposed to capture the game live were prevented from doing so.

The GFA’s Disciplinary Committee should wake up, because our league venues are becoming terror grounds and the fans are better off not patronizing the league. How can somebody go and watch violence and bribery corrupted matches when the English Premiership for example is showing on TV at the same time?

A word to the wise, they say, ………………

Credit: Raymond Yeboah, Ark Radio, Sunyani / SportsInGhana.com posted 24/03/2010