Assad Mallah: Stop relegation in our league

SWAG and Asante Kotoko patron, Assad Mallah, has recommended a controversial measure to scrap the relegation exercise in the 2015 Capital Plus Premier League which has only three matches to end.

According to him, the league should be structured in such a way that the real traditional clubs that make the competition tick are maintained so as to bring back the excitement that often characterised the top flight league in the past.

In an interview yesterday, Assad lamented the days gone by when a Hearts-Olympics or Kotoko-Hasaacas or Eleven Wise-Dwarfs matches saw the stands filled to capacity, unlike recent times when the new non-traditional clubs “are just feeding on the popularity of the traditional clubs to make money,”

“Among themselves they cannot attract any crowd and they need to face Kotoko or Hearts to make money,” the SWAG and Kotoko life patron observed.

Assad Mallah said the current trend should be discouraged and suggested that the premier league should be made more attractive by putting at stake a handsome or big monetary reward for the champions, the first runners-up, the second runners-up and the third runners-up (The Top Four).

He said the winners should be given not less than GHc1million, the runners-up GHc500,000 and the third-placed GHc250,000 to make the premiership really competitive.

Even though Assad reckoned his suggestions might be controversial, he was confident these would be the best means “to make the traditional league really attractive once again,” stressing the need to bring back the traditional clubs on regional basis.