Liberian referee Yekeh's days of shame
Posted On Wednesday, 12th September 2012
Liberian Jerry Yekeh has been hugely criticized for his poor bad officiating against Ghana
Liberia may have won 2-0 against Ghana in a friendly on Tuesday, but the major talking points in the Liberian press remains the rubbish refereeing from Jerry Yekeh.
The hosts won 2-0 courtesy of an eight minute drama done in two acts as the diminutive Indonesian based Zah Rahan Krangar of Indonesian club persipura got the goals.
The first would however reignite the debate of goal line technology as the player’s tap in which was bundled by Asanti Gold goalie Fatau Dauda still remains unclear as to whether the whole of the ball crossed the line.
But, Al Ain’s hit-man Asamoah Gyan who was wearing the captain arm band drew first blood from a booming header after the pin-sized nimble footed winger Solomon Asanti of berekum Chelsea provided a delivery that eluded the defensive duo of Solomon Wesseh and Teah Dennis, Jr. both of local sides LPRC Oilers and Barrack Young Controllers (BYC).
Referee yekeh however disallowed the goal on grounds of offside. And, after the Lone Star second goal, there was a penalty appeal ignored by the referee after a Gyan flick had landed on the arm of stopper Wesseh.
On a bumpy pitch that caused problems for the visitors, the Lone Star started on a high with full back George Gebro showing much grit and Ansu Toure who was the orchestrator for the first goal always looking ominous.
Cypriot based full back Solomon Grimes continued his below par performance, with the French based holding midfielder Alseny Keita continuing his short crisp passing that lacked the element of supply generally as he could not provide the telling balls.
The silky Isaac Zola Pupo of local outfit LPRC Oilers was again on show with his deft touches, but remained unable to provide the darting runs or cover grounds to get in the opposing side final third.
Russian club CSKA Moscow CSKA winger Sekou Jabateh Oliseh had a slightly better game than the one with Nigeria with Indonesian based club Semen Padang finisher Edward Junior Wilson lacking sharpness.
In three matches he has yet to get a shot on goal.
Cross for Ghana disallowed goal, very bad call by ref. Player on Side
The Ghanaians settled after Zah’s brace and began to show some good football. Samuel Inkoom, Christian Atsu,Kwadow Asamoah who was no doubt the man of the match, Razak Nuhu, Abdul Majeed Warris,Jerry Akiminko, Derek Boateng tried to control the contest, but the Lone Star would always cause problem with their individual brilliance.
With President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Vice President Joseph Boikai watching, the Ghanaians tried to reduce the deficit as they introduced Anthony Annan who ignited the game as the Black Stars missed a plethora of chances. As the Black Stars probed, the referees caused more problems with their questionable offside calls, and at one point in time made the players of the Black Stars had to barricade one of the assistant referees in protesting. One disappointment however was the avalanche of misses by FC Porto’s Abdul Majeed Warris who is known as the “Ghanaian Messi”.
On the day, the letter, i, was off, as he was a “mess” and you can guess how he performed.
One major talking point however was the decision by Anthony Annan who tried striking a ball boy with a ball after the lad was apparently wasting time to give Annan a ball to throw. Andre Dede Ayew would later come on, playing simple style football with the birthday man Jordan Ayew relaxing and watching from the bench for the entire 90 minutes.
The win was the Lone Star fourth against the Black Stars, while the Blacks Stars have won against the Lone Star 13 times.
In the end, the Lone Star was 2-0 victors with rubbish refereeing playing a key part as the Lone Star won the President’s Cup, but there was a need to invite a referee from either Sierra Leone or Guinea as a further sign of transparency and Fair play.
The match had to be delayed by an hour after the Lone Star earlier refused to honor the match on grounds that they were not given their per diem for the match with Nigeria Super Eagles. With the Black Star players arriving on the field since, they had to wait 41 minutes before their Liberian counterparts arrived.
Source: liberiansoccer.com
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I find it so hard to believe that the GFA agreed that a LIBERIAN REFEREE should officiate the match. I can’t remember the last time a friendly was played with the home country providing the match officials. GFA is to blame not the referee.
Next time, accept friendlies with this type of countries.
Master we don’t have to blame any referee,our coach is not good and he must be fired before he destroy the Black Stars,his record is very bad 4 matches,1 win,1 draw 2 losses,i will not be surprise if he fail to qualify us for the afcon
His record in matches that matter… Not friendlies
is 2 wins and 1 loss.
win vs. Lesotho and Malawi…
all in all he has given us 9 goals and conceded only one…
The one loss he had was the game in Zambia where the ref cheated…
The Liberia V Ghana match is so painful that it will stay in our memories forever.
The question is, does Akwasi Appiah knew about this local referee before the match?. If the answer is yes, then, that match was fixed match/sold. A big disgrace on Ghana and insult to all football fraternities. We demand public apology.
If this issue is dealt with immediately, all our future friendly matches would become business as usual.
Oh Ghana dab3n !!!!
I meant if NOT dealt with right now, our football becomes money making machine to some people.
Useless article.BS went there already known dey will loose hu r dey foolin wit dis long article mtcheew.
For once I think our coach should be monitored closely.
How can Liberia beat us even with a referee’s help by two goal margin.
AKWASI APPIAH……………..BE CAREFUL
it’s a liar from the pit of hell gsn ,no liberia press reported such a story u cooked it urselves liarrrrrrrrrs
Match of convenience! needed to win to climax independence day celebration. Yen ny3 nkwadaa saa o!
see this cheap propaganda…you think we think like children..? why are you guys using the match official as an excuse? Oyame ahu moe…!!! Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuulllllllllllllllllllllll
We always have excuses when we loose. Whether bad officiating or not, the black stars should have been able to score convincing goals and not controversial goals.
When u win u
dont complain. When u lose u are cry babies.ths is 20th century not the 19th century.the more u brag abt ur players the more u lose.ur players are too fat nd wht thy knw best is to dance ask gyan,stop blaming match official 4evry loss.grow up nd put things right.gud luck
REM peter Tosh’s ‘IM THE TOUGHEST’,anything u can do,i can do it better,bUT never try to do what i can do cos im the toughest,GH always the toughest n these minnows n football non-entities called zambia r saying wat???jack dont bring uorself
Only Zambia is in the 20th century. Ghana is in the 21st century. Ignorant stooge from Zambia.
I n Zambia the referee robbed you of victory.In China the referee robbed you of victory and in Liberia,the referee again robbed you of victory?Just accept the results coz the lone stars beat your star studded side and besides this is just a friendly which will help your coach asses his star players for future ssignments.Be humble coz there are no more minnows in football ask Cameron what happenned in cape verde or Morrocco in Maputo.
I hvae never seen such proud pipo who cant accept defeat lyk ghana.it cin wen they lose tis always due to referee.i watchd in amazement how u effortlessly tried 2 copmlain bout bieng defeated by zambia if i remember correctly yo FA even went as far as trying to protest the result.wow…. gentlemen n ladies pliz.bout the game aginst liberia the alarming thing is dat evry de news excuses ar comin out.yo wer complainig even b4 kick off dat they wer late wich in ma view was to the advantage of ghana coz the liberina had issue.the next excuse was that the game was played 4 40 min in the first half..?yestede ur star player blamed the pitch n well now the ref was as a cliche biased towards u ….very funnyy…u have got a lot to learn i bet brazil are not this proud u show some dignity n humility even in defeat.hear is a glass of water n snap out of it ghanaians u were second best in all departments n at all tyms of the game n lyk gyan wud put it u lost to a better team
What is wrong with these Zambians?
Is reading and comprehending a problem in Zambia as poverty is?
Check the source of the story,it came from Liberia press themselves.
Let me help you with their address: liberiasoccer.com
So Abdul Majeed Waris is now an FC Porto player and our ‘Messi‘ heh? Is the writer a football journalist at all? GSN shine your eyes!
Ghanaians are ugly, lazy, uncivilized. Pls don’t mind this ghanaians they are liars, there is no website like Liberiasoccer.com. Ghanaians are low minded people and enemy of progress. Ghanaians are noise makers, they thinks that football is all about NDC and NPP lies and propagada, i mean ghana useless political parties. There was 1 hour 30 mins light off during the match between ghana vs Losotho. And referee stop the match and Losotho players where patiently waited till ghana restored the light and the match continued and this ugly Juju black stars of Ghana won Losotho 7- 0 in the juju town called Kumusi. If it was ghana team that went to Losotho and that light off occured, the FIFA, CAF, the whole world wouldn’t have rest of mind. Ghana ugly juju team should be civilized and lean to accept defect. And ghanaian fans should stop decieving theirselves, we are in 20 century and not 19.
STUPID FOOL!!! Go and ask your mother if she did not use juju on your father. How can you be so ignorant to still take pride in the fact that you’re living in the 20th century? KURASINI!!!!
Remain in the 20th century. Check google And see whether there is liberiansoccer.com or not. You are displaying your ignorance with confidence. Your insults to Ghanaians are born out of bitterness. You know that your country can never measure up to Ghana in all aspects of society. Ghana has always been the hope of Africa in politics, football, diplomacy, Et cetera. For that we are envied by our inadequate neighbours. Tell me one country that has won more trophies than Ghana in football in Africa, at all levels and gender. Even our national amputee football team has more accolades then countries who envy us. “Who jahb less, no man course” says the great Bob Marley.
i’ll say more on this after we qualify against nig
@fifa do u hv internet at home ?Pls there’s no such story my bro, i even googled but there wasn’t any storylik dat the only headline u get is Lone Stars stun star studded B.Star
Nothing like liberiansoccer.com?
Wow,these Zambian pigmies,i never knew you guys are that backward.
I implore you to just try,the liberian press aint lairs and not in the 20th century like that of Zambia,
I beg,you just log on to liberiansoccer.com and we will see who is lying.
Fiifi grow up i hv not said there’s nothing like Liberiasoccer.com. Mr intellect what am saying is, i cant find anything which captions “the major talking points in the Liberian press remains the rubbish refereeing from Jerry Yekeh” Maybe i will be grateful if u cld send me the particular story. U see how wise am not to insult you?