![]() The question here is, why worry yourself with “an ant when you have an elephant to catch?” The Black Stars appearance fee saga that nearly drowned the nation into the Amazon basin can never compare to the winning prize of the world cup but the players chose to strategize and fought for the former. Why should I ‘wet my pants’ just because the Black Stars of Ghana won its last world cup match? Truth is, in Ghana and most African countries we honour people who don’t know the essence of wearing the national colours. Uruguay’s Luis Suarez would be remembered for sinking his teeth into Giorgio Chiellini’s shoulder but that does not go down as the fondest memory of the tournament.? But the way and manner in which all of a sudden a collection of 23 football players could hold a west African nation to ransom forcing ?President, John Mahama to fly over $4m across the Atlantic Ocean to pay players unpaid appearance fees rather gained currency. ![]() This same word has suddenly become the foremost clich? among Ghanaians because of the Black Stars shameful attitude at the just ended FIFA World Cup especially when central defender, John Boye was caught on camera kissing? a bundle of dollar bills.Ī situation which struck a commentator during Ghana’s last group match against Portugal to say that the Black Stars looked tired because they might have counted money all night long.īut do you blame him? No! Because there was complete lack of trust between these players and their management committee members so they wanted to count their monies to the last dollar on receipt. The word mediocre has been in the dictionary for ages but it became more popular in Ghana when former President Jerry John Rawlings used it to describe some government appointees of the ruling National Democratic Congress.
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