The
Gambia Football Federation has raised eyebrows on the performance of some of
its Referees at the start of this Season’s League Competition (2019/2020).
Responding
to avert some grave anomalies in the arbitration of the games, the GFF acted
swiftly to suspend Yaya Fanneh FIFA assistant referee for his actions when he
served as assistant referee two of the game between Wallidan and Gambia Armed
Forces played on 18 January at the Independence Stadium in Bakau.
This
decision is necessitated by Fanneh’s wrong offside decision he took against
Wallidan FC in division one match day six which could have been a game changing
situation.
Fanneh’s
action was carefully reviewed by the Gambia Football Federation referee
committee and acted upon his weak performance on the game to avert similar
occurrences in the future.
Fanneh’s
suspension takes effect from week six of division one league and will run for
three consecutive matches.
The
disciplinary action invoke on Fanneh will disallow him from taking part in any
league matches within the three weeks period while the Committee urged him to
dedicate himself better on the touch line to avert such expensive occurrences
in the future.
The
GFF wish to make it clear that all actors in the league competition are closely
monitored by its various bodies.
The
mechanism is neither a witch hunt nor to degrade any person’s performance but
only meant to enhance the competition level of the league and improve on
quality.
Source-GFF
