Something quite significant happened in local football recently. The Georgetown Football League (GFL) secured a court injunction that brought a halt to the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) plans to elect a new executive. What the court ruling did was to shatter the long-entrenched myth that the GFF, as an affiliate of international football’s governing body, FIFA, was somehow, out of the reach of municipal law in the society in which it functions.
It is a myth that had always encouraged the view that the GFF- like the various other regional football federations comprising the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) – was a law unto itself; and if there remains a consummate fear in local football circles of the state’s embrace, the myriad controversies associated with the ineptitude of the GFF and the protracted tenure of its serving President, Colin Klass have caused observers to advocate some measure of government intervention to curb what are widely perceived to be the excesses of the GFF. Football, however,
