Posted: 2012-03-14 10:01
In a country where movie producers are ridiculed for long, winding movies that can stretch into double figure parts, few could have scripted the latest football drama to engulf us.
A month after the 2012 Nations Cup, Ghana is still consumed heavily by it. It is still the topical subject on the sports pages, on radio. It is splitting the football association and turning friends into enemies. It is bringing out the best and worst in journalists.
It is above all taking much-needed energy away from what should be another concerted effort to qualify for the 2014 World Cup.
In June, Ghana will be required to play two World Cup qualifiers, yet we have no proper and definite clue about who will be in charge. All thanks to one of the most protracted cases at the GFA.
The plot thickens every day. Goran Stevanovic was supposed to have met the GFA on Tuesday to thrash out terms of a departure of sort out a final meeting to determine his future, based on who you would believe.
He didn't show up. His passport, we are told, is full. He needs a new one. Throughout this period we all have looked like some clowns.
The Ghana Football Association has looked like a body unsure what to do, fumbling at every step of the way in what many people reckon should have been a simple decision of who to stick to as coach and who not to stick to.
GFA president Kwesi Nyantekyie has always been a strong advocate of continuity. He stuck by Ratomir Dujkovic to great effect. He has been the most powerful ally of Stevanovic, with the executive committee largely baying for his exit. The executive committee have been unanimous in their belief that the Serbian must go.
It is an open secret that as far as they are concerned, Stevanovic is not fit and good enough to be Ghana coach. But Nyantekyie has stuck by him and made a strong case for that too.