Rivers United may have run away with the tittle before the end of the campaign but there are still some scores to settle on who will bag the last slot of continental football come next season.
Along with finishing in top 3, there is also a relegation battle to be fought come the final day of the 2021/2022 season.
It’s also worthy of note and with a deep concern, that a lot has happened during the the season as interference gradually stills the excitement of league football in Nigeria.
Chairman of Rivers United and who doubles as Chairman of Rivers State’s Football Association, Barrister Chris Green has raised concern on how club chairmen get involved and interfere with the activities of football and how these action is bringing disrepute to football generally in Nigeria. He emphasizes on how the Chairmen, in the quest to get result, interfere with the job of the LMC. He urged club chairmen to stay away from the hanky-panky in the league if they really want the league to get better.
The barrister says that the league is at this state because too many interests is rubbing the league it’s excitement. “This ordinarily shouldn’t be happening. A lot of interests. The interest we should be looking at is the interest of the country. The league is a veritable tool for development. If the league is good, the game in the country will develop because development comes from there. And when the league is good, we are going to have good transition and good national teams that will make the country proud”
According to the former NFF technical committee chairman, if the league must improve in Nigeria, club chairmen have a grate role to play and must tune down the level of their interest in the league and as the job of a club chairman is to run the club and not the League.
