PSL insiders say Absa Premiership will start on time, despite Ajax Cape Town debacle
The Premier Soccer League may challenge a ruling that relegated Ajax an said only Fifa can adjudicate on the matter over playing Zimbabwe national Tendai Ndoro
Premier Soccer League (PSL) insiders are confident that the Absa Premiership will start on August 3 as scheduled — this as the organisation’s board of governors meets on Thursday to decide a way forward in their legal wrangling with Ajax Cape Town over the Tendai Ndoro affair. The PSL must choose whether to challenge the ruling of Judge Denise Fisher that set aside Ajax’s automatic relegation from the Premiership and stated that only Fifa can adjudicate on the matter. It is likely to press on with its challenge‚ which means petitioning Fisher to give the PSL leave to appeal the judgment by suggesting the judge had erred and that another judge will find differently. The stinger for the league is that the South Gauteng High Court is in recess until July 30‚ which would be the earliest the matter could be heard. This is just days before the scheduled start of the league. Ajax has threatened to interdict the start of the campaign should the board of governors go ahead‚ but a PSL insider...
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