Referees snub a wakeup call for football

The recent stance by the majority of referees, who chose not to participate in the recent Guyana Football Referees Council (GFRC) Electoral Congress, forcing it to be abandoned due to a lack of quorum, should serve as a wakeup call for all involved in the sport.

Football has been experiencing a bad period for a while now and this latest action by one of the most important components of the game is clearly a reflection of the council’s poor management, but also presents a general impression of the overall state of affairs of the sport’s supervision.

It was reported that less than 20 of the 117 registered officials attended the congress, fewer that the two thirds required in accordance with the constitution.