Kaizer Chiefs have won their arbitration against the Premier Soccer League and it has now been ordered that their matches against Cape Town City and Golden Arrows be replayed.
According to TimesLive, SAFA arbitrator Nazeer Cassim SC handed down his award in the arbitration on Friday afternoon, and ordered that the DStv Premiership matches be scheduled for a date by the PSL.
The case involved the matches Chiefs did not honour at home to City on 4 December and away against Arrows on 8 December amid an outbreak of Covid-19 cases that also forced them to shut down their headquarters in Naturena.
Chiefs applied to the PSL for postponements but were turned down by the league’s executive committee.
According to TimesLive, in his arbitration award, Cassim found that: “It is my view that KC [Chiefs] was justified in not fielding teams for the fixtures on December 4 and December 8 2021. These two games must be replayed.
“There is much to be said that where possible games must be replayed in order to enable soccer to triumph and the best team on the day in question to be rewarded for its efforts.
“I am averse to the litigation process deciding the winner. It is better that the results of the match be determined in the field.”
Cassim did also note, in a second point, that: “I think had the officials of KC constructively engaged the officials of CTC [City] and GA [Arrows] timeously, the sensible consensus would have been to postpone the fixtures in order to protect the soccer players and in the public interest. The officials of KC were wanting in this regard in not timeously engaging their respective colleagues.”
In terms of costs, Cassim found that Chiefs “presented a case before the football manager and the exco that was not properly considered”.
“KC was at fault for not properly motivating its case before the football manger. It was at fault in not properly coming to grips with its own case and avoided answering pertinent questions raised by the league compliance officer, which proper responses would have assisted the parties coming to grips with the issue.”
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