NIGERIA NATIONAL LEAGUE – A STAIN OR STANDARD It has been amateur football league before 1990, but now football in Nigeria has a very robust, exciting and inspiring historical perspective. This history has impacted a great lesson. These are words from the Nigeria National League (NNL) handbook, which also outlines there, rules and regulations. These words if read by anyone home and abroad will be dancing for joy that the future of our Nations football is great, but these words that speaks truth about the great potentials and talented youths in our Nation has been put to the waste bin by the so called laborer with negative identity who see themselves as leaders. I will not argue the fact that there are real leaders among the people who champion the cause of the Nations football. We tend to borrow ideas from Europe and other places where things are working, some had even played in this foreign countries and know how the system work, then returned home to be managers and chairman of some of our league, just like Tijani Babangida who is the present chairman of Taraba F.C serving a four (4) years term. This has given us hope that the game will be properly managed and we will be able to enjoy the round leather game. But this assumption had been proved wrong as many of these professionals who had played professional football in foreign countries are even the champion of what I call play it shady. The NNL has always been a struggling, heavy wave pool where many Nigerian clubs battle to make it to the premiership, a pool where only the rich clubs with strong men in the league board can gain promotion and others who play with real talent may likely gain promotion if they can stand and conquer obstacles. These was seen from last season games where GIWA FC and Nassarawa FC played a draw game at Nassarawa FC home, but a fight broke out at the end of the match as both teams were battling for promotion to the higher league in Nigeria, a match which ended in a 1 -1 draw. GIWA FC called for a replay in Abuja, as they have all hope to qualify if they won, but Nassaraw FC beats them to their tricks and god fathers plan by trashing them 3 – 1 in the replay at the home head quarters of the NNL. The present season which has six(6) games left to be played saw a partnering light during the season when Industrial and General Insurance Company (IGI) splashed out N27Million on the 8th April, 2013, the sum which NNL called a mouth watering amount (nigerianationalleague/announcements-news) to sponsor this struggling league. But the question is have they given out this money to promote a league that understand the game or a league that pretends to know the game but are only artifact with no standard facts. Since the incidence between GIWA FC and Nassarawa FC last season, a lot of fans have been monitoring the league to know her true color whether it’s a league to splash their money on or just a league where only the money bank can come into. GIWA FC has been at the top of the NNL table this season, a team which had been tipped by the NNL board to gain promotion to the premiership even before the start of the season. Let’s x-ray GIWA FC being at the top of the table. Have they been there by their effort of by other means? GIWA FC has been the only team which has played the highest numbers of penalties home and away this season, a team which I will say has the backing of some NNL board member which are always present whenever GIWA FC plays their matches and this has seen one of the members been humiliated and beating up in a match, leaders who are to be respected now be put to shame. Just last night I heard that “Zamfara UTD” who is at the bottom of the league table (https://sites.google/a/nigerianationalleague/national-league/league-table) and is sure for relegation will be withdrawing from the league. This is a bad stain to NNL as her rules and regulations had given room for dirty deals to hunt and drag backwards clubs who are not dancing to there (NNL) tune. If Zamfara UTD finally withdraw from the league and the NNL Article 2.0(4) pp. 19 which state that “If a club withdraws after the commencement of the second stanza, it shall be expelled from the competition and will not be eligible for readmission. Results of all its matches played and unplayed shall be cancelled”. Which means the teams which had beaten Zamfara UTD home and away will have six (6) points deducted from their total points. Why not playing a walk over if they are not present to play? I want to ask the board the following questions and I will love a sincere answered. 1. Will Zamfara UTD withdraw from the NNL if they were to be topping the league of having a good standing? 2. Will Zamfara UTD refund the resources used by other teams to pay referees, match commissioner, and other officials for home match officiating and for the money spent when they played at Zamfara UTD home ground, including matches they replayed against them? 3. Will the club refund the commission they got from IGI partnering cost that was given them? 4. Will Zamfara UTD not be re-organized with another name in the future and gain promotion to the NNL? 5. Has it been heard that in the known league abroad a team in relegation point withdrawn from the league? 6. Is Zamfara UTD a poor team with no enough finance like some other teams in the league who also are struggling with finance? 7. Which of the teams are the NNL officials trying to pull up or down the NNL table? 8. When will NNL re-organize her house and re-writes her rules and regulations to meet standard? 9. When will NNL solve the problem of home team been giving penalty when a keeper freely catches the ball when no player in touched or even in the box with the keeper? 10. When will NNL officials be kin about observing matches away from their home environment? 11. When will Nigerian referees appreciate good football and officiates rightly instead of joining the NNL to pull some club up the table and drag some down the table. These questions are begging for answers and it is hope that Zamfara UTD will quietly finish up the season in there relegation pool “It is more honorable to go and retry, than to follow the backdoor of shame being used by artifacts that gain from misleading others” and not listen to the plans of some people at the back quarters of NNL to drag some club up and some down the table. Lastly what will be the reputation of NNL and the Nations football with FIFA and the outside world if Zamfara UTD is allowed to dent the league by pulling out because they are in relegation pool?
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:45:58 +0000
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