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About four years back, the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) rejuvenated the Premier League that was first won by FC Kallon. However, discount armani sunglasses even the FA and football clubs knew at that time that the league was nowhere premier. It was only a few years after the war came to an end, most of the country’s football talent had left the country and professional leagues had been non-existent for some time.
But as the league progressed, some positive fruits were being yielded as two years ago Sierra Leone had something to smile about when FC Kallon and Ports Authority made some encouraging impact on the continent’s two prestigious competitions; the CAF Champions League and Confederation Cup. The following year, there was another setback that saw the SLFA failing to meet the CAF deadline in submitting the qualifying teams for the CAF competitions. At the end, club football suffered another setback as the country missed out on another important chance to augment confidence in the game; Sierra Leonean clubs were not part of any club competition last season.
At the start of this year it seems as if another impasse was in the air as a protracted delay to the start of another Premiership season was about to cripple the progress of the game once more. Previous sponsor, Africell, refused to sponsor the league on the pretext that the deal designer sunglasses for men was not yielding any dividend for them as the National Stadium was decorated with the blue and white colour and logo of a rival company, Comium. ?
On the other hand, Comium was refusing to give a package exceeding 80 Million Leones for the Premiership sponsorship claiming that they had a contract with the Stadium Management to advertise at the National Stadium for the next four years. Comium did not budge in, so at the end they were forced to make a joint sponsorship deal that saw four other companies combining with Comium to sponsor the league.
The result of that standoff was that since time was not enough for the league to meet CAF’s deadline to register the clubs for continental competitions. The Premier League Board and teams decided to consent to only one leg games to be played.
So teams in this season league will not be playing home and away, they will only play one-legged ties. At first this arrangement was questioned by some who queried the rationale of playing such a seemingly easy mode in the top league. But who wants to miss the vital continental competitions? No one, so the boss sunglasses clubs welcomed it.
Nevertheless, a league that started in somehow chaotic and bleak circumstances this season is surprisingly taking a huge momentum that has not been seen for decades. The crowds are returning, it is surprising to note that amidst all the negative publicity the game of football had been getting after the acrimonious outcome of last year’s SLFA presidential elections and the bitter fall out, many Sierra Leoneans are proudly turning out to watch their local teams play.
At a recent match between FC Kallon and Mighty Blackpool, the atmosphere was so charged, that I must confess I had not witnessed that scene at the National Stadium for a very long time. The main bowl arena was almost filled and the atmosphere fitting for a top league competition, although the match ended in a 0-0 draw there was much drama in the match to keep the fans alive up to ninety minutes.
Matches have not only been drawing huge crowds, but has also been creating talking point across the nation, recently when table-toppers, East End Lions met with Ports Authority in a capacity filled crowd at the National Stadium, there was much discussion everywhere as to whether Premiership top scorer (EE Lions Mohamed ‘Drogba’ Kabia) disallowed goal was a fair decision. But amidst this rising euphoria, has the level and quality of players improved? That was the question I put to new SLFA spokesperson, Sorie Ibrahim Sesay who said he surely thinks there has been an improvement in the quality of the game as indicated by the very tight matches we have been getting and the minimal points secured by the top teams.

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