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  • Nana Yaw Amponsah steps down as Phar Rangers president

    Nana Yaw Amponsah has relinquished his position as the President of Division One side Phar Rangers FC ahead of his appointment as the Chief Executive Officer of giants Asante Kotoko SC.

    Amponsah will be unveiled the new CEO of the Porcupine Warriors on Friday, GHANAsoccernet.com understands.

    The renowned football administrator has already received his appointment letter from the Manhyia Palace to lead Asante Kotoko according to reports.

    With few days to the official unveiling of Amponsah as the man to head the administration of the Red Family, he has relieved of his duties at Rangers.

    Amponsah was a candidate for the Ghana Football Association Presidential elections in October 2019 but missed out after three rounds of voting.

    The Manhyia Palace settled on the ambitiious football administrator following a meeting with the Board of Directors of the club.

    Source: Ghana Soccernet

  • Rangers director under fire as Scottish football row deepens

    Rangers managing director Stewart Robertson has been accused of making “baseless, damaging and self-serving attacks” by his fellow Scottish Professional Football League board members.

    The other eight SPFL directors have issued a lengthy rebuttal of a number of allegations made in a dossier Rangers sent to clubs on Thursday.

    They said they had “complete confidence” in chief executive Neil Doncaster and legal advisor Rod McKenzie, both of whom the Ibrox club want suspended.

    The board members again urged clubs to reject Rangers’ resolution proposing an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the vote that ended the lower-league season and handed the SPFL board the authority to do the same for the Premiership.

    Robertson claimed clubs were shown a “complete disregard” and had been “railroaded”.

    The letter, which came ahead of a meeting between the 12 Premiership clubs and Championship winners Dundee United on Tuesday, stated it was “enormously frustrating to see one of our number launch baseless, damaging and self-serving attacks”.

    The board members also questioned why Robertson had waited so long to make his claims.

    Rangers were 13 points adrift of leaders Celtic when the Premiership season was suspended in March due to the coronavirus outbreak.

    Celtic would be awarded a record-equalling ninth consecutive title if the SPFL board deemed that no more games could be played.

    Source: AFP

  • Phar Rangers reinstated in Ghana National Division One League

    The Ghana Football Association has reinstated Phar Rangers as National Division One following their recent legal win at the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS), GHANAsoccernet.com can report.

    The Ghana FA has reinstated the club in the Division One League on the instruction of the global adjudicatory chamber.

    “The Ghana Football Association acting on the instruction of the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) would like to confirm that your Club has been reinstated in the Division One Zone Three League, a letter signed by Ghana FA deputy general secretary Alex Asante read

    “By this development, Phar Rangers Football Club will be eligible to participate in the 2019/2020 Division One Zone Three League when it commence.”

    Read:GFA slapped with $ 6,170 cost to Phar Rangers for bogus ruling

    Despite finishing 12th on the Zone III table at the end the 2016/17 season, Phar Rangers were relegated to the Eastern Region Division Two League with Okyeman Planners who finished 13th earning a slot to maintain their status in the DOL.

    This was because Planners won a protest against relegated Okwawu United for failing to pay a fine after their week 29th clash.

    But Phar Rangers argued that since Okwawu United failed to pay their fine before their week six league clash, they lose all points in their matches from week 7 to week 30.

    Meaning they would also profit from three points and three goals to survive.

    It took the Ghana FA Disciplinary Committee 48 days to respond to Phar Rangers’ protest with the flimsy excuse that they have no jurisdiction over the case.

    Rangers exhausted all the judicial processes at the FA before heading to Switzerland for review.

    Read:GFA Presidency: Setting the record straight on intermediary brouhaha

    The CAS ruling read: ”The appeal filled by Phar Rangers FC against the decision of the Appeals Committee of the Ghana Football Association of 23 February 2018 is upheld.

    ”The decision of the Appeals Committee of Ghana Football Association of 23 February 2018 is set aside and replaced by this award.

    ”In the game between Phar Rangers FC and Okwawu United of 16 July 2017, Phar Rangers FC is declared the forfeit winner by 3:0, Phar Rangers FC, therefore, remained in the GFA Division I League in the next football season

    ”The costs of the arbitration, to be determined and served to the parties by the CAS Court Office, shall be borne by the Ghana Football Association.

    ”The Ghana Football Association is ordered to pay an amount of CHF 6,000 to Phar Rangers as a contribution to the costs and expenses incurred by Phar Rangers FC in connection with these arbitration proceedings.”

    Source: GHANAsoccernet.com