Franchise21:
Only in Nigeria they host non-sporting events in stadia

cheapgoals:
■ INFRASTRUCTURAL DECAY OF STADIA IN THE LEAGUE.

One can count the number of standard stadia in the league with the tip of the fingers, many of the stadia pitches look more or less a public secondary school playground surrounded by open stands.

The few natural grass pitches are poorly maintained while the few good looking pitches are mostly artificial turfs.
Apart from the Godswill Akpabio’s stadium in Uyo, no other stadium can boast of a decent natural turf.

Playing at the Abia township stadium is a nightmare for players, the turf of the stadium can be likened to a Cassava plantation, yet it was approved by the LMC at the start of the season. The UJ Esuene stadium inCalabarr which used to host super eagles matches in the past, looked awful and painful as it were, was shown to the world on Supersport when MFM FC visited Enyimba in one of the league matches. Also recently parts of the stadium collapsed during one of the heavy rains in Calabar.

The LMC need to take actions on some other gory pitches like the Rwan pam stadium Jos, Gateway Intl stadium Sagamu, and most especially the Abia township stadium.

In the concluding part of this article, we will look at the viable solutions to this problem with statistics from the first stanza of the league.

#SupportTheNPFL cc: Gotoya, Danycrusoe, Franchise21, mathematical, robosky02, Nick4life, Adonis3

Franchise21:
Only in Nigeria they host non-sporting events in stadia

Nick4life:
Must you mention me

cheapgoals:


Playing at the Abia township stadium is a nightmare for players, the turf of the stadium can be likened to a Cassava plantation

cheapgoals:


ah dey tell yu.. church crusade,wedding,public gathering and other ceremonial events..

Franchise21:
Only in Nigeria they host non-sporting events in stadia

Mathematical:



This got be laughing hard.. Had to take a chocolate before it stops..

Blame the club or officials handling the affair of the pitch for using the stadia for non-sport event.

And on crowd/violence issue, this happen all around Europe and all, curbing the growing issue is really important for LMC and other league administrators..

supersport pullin off is a blessing in disguise.. Npfl won't stop cox of vhat..

Home winning mentality.. Bookmakers at work here, club official giving back-tips to arbitrators and match officials..

lmc nd othrz still hv lots of work to do.


Lalasticlala com push thz truck up

Franchise21:
It has to do with majority of d stadia in Nigeria been owned by d Govt... Privatize Nigerian Clubs and Stadia is the solution

tbaba1234:
Some of the issues are tied together. Poor Officiating is tied to home win syndrome.

Franchise21:
Only in Nigeria they host non-sporting events in stadia

cheapgoals:
■ POOR OFFICIATING

The league has been plagued with a lot of bad officiating from referees so far this season, the opening match of the season between Kano Pillars and Ifeanyi Ubah was abandoned 50 minutes into the game after the referee, Fulosho Ajayi had disallowed a clear goal scored by Ifeanyi Ubah and later sent off the official to the stands.

That hasn’t been the only controversial officiating so far this season as Remo stars (against Sunshine stars in Akure), Rivers united (against Gombe united) and a host of other teams have had clear goals cancelled by referees.

Also teams like Ifeanyi Ubah, MFM have had late penalties giving to them, albeit some legitimately, more amusing is the fact that these controversial calls have been in favour of the home side, this could be assumed to be a result of bribery and threats against referees by officials of home teams and their fans.

All these controversies trailing the referees has further tainted the image of the NPFL as a rapid growing league and also the reputation of Nigerian referees for international tournaments.

BascoVanVeli:


I am glad we are pointing things out because we all want a fair league but this happens in every single league in the world. Nigeria is not special in this regard. Look at England and Spain, i can bet u they have 100 shady decisions by referees between them this season. We should not tarnish the image of the whole lot for a few bad apples.

cheapgoals:


Yea bad officiating is all over the beautiful game, but it doesn't stop us from addressing our own ..this is not tarnishing ,

BascoVanVeli:


U made bad officiating a reason why the league is not up to par, do u really think that is not tarnishing? Like i already said we should always strive to get better but don't make our referees the enemies.

BascoVanVeli:


U made bad officiating a reason why the league is not up to par, do u really think that is not tarnishing? Like i already said we should always strive to get better but don't make our referees the enemies.

Danycrusoe:


sir Basco we both have interest in the growth of the league but one has to be objective here, the article is about the places where the league needs to improve n if that is the case there is no way poor officiating can be overlooked.

The cases of poor officiating by Nigerian referees are just too much and it's almost on daily n weekly basis.

when was the last time a Nigerian ref was called to be at the middle of a world cup game across all levels in both male n female football by fifa n even caf?