While South Africa’s football fraternity is still reeling with shock after Fifa rejected South Africa’s protest with an abrupt one-liner, Ghana FA scornfully said the outcome has shown “South African Football Association knows nothing in football”.
Late on Friday afternoon, Fifa, finally, after 10 days, ended its silent treatment by declaring that the protest lodged by the South African Football Association (Safa) to have the match against Ghana replayed because of questionable officiating was “inadmissible”.
The Fifa Disciplinary Committee had already met on 23 November to consider the protest which followed Bafana Bafana’s controversial 1-0 loss to the Black Stars of Ghana on 14 November.
The Safa CEO Tebogo Motlanthe was somewhat perplexed by Fifa’s blunt response which it did not explain.
Motlanthe says: “We are still going to discuss the way forward and formulate a response.”
Ghana FA general secretary Prosper Harrison Addo, meanwhile, says in an interview on Light FM: “The South African Football Association knows nothing in football and this case clearly shows how incompetent they are.”