Eleven Wise assistant coach wants club to pay bribes to referees to survive, claims football in Ghana is run like 'corrupt mafia'

By Patrick Akoto

Eleven Wise assistant coach Acquah Harrison is urging the club to pay bribes to referees to salvage their Division One League campaign this term, claiming football in Ghana is being run like a ‘corrupt mafia’.

Acquah, a former Hearts of Oak player, claims the Ghanaian second-tier side has been untreated unfairly by referees this term and wants the club to negotiate with the men in black to save them from relegation.

He claims football in Ghana is being run like a ‘corrupt mafia’ and crippled with 'decades-long tradition of bribes and corruption"

“Right now Ghana football is mafia work. I am telling you Ghana football is mafia work,” he told Takoradi-based Aseda FM

“If you don’t work your way out with the referees and the GFA, you are doomed. It's been like this for many years.

“It’s important we take steps to correct that and the reality is that we must talk to the referees to soften their stance for us.

“If you don’t get favour with the GFA and the referees, you will go down.”

Wise have struggled for form this season as they lie just above the relegation zone in zone two.