State House is for celebrations, not football crisis management
Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan poses for a group photo with leaders of Simba and Yanga football clubs after holding talks with them at Chamwino State House in Dodoma. PHOTO | COURTESY
President Samia Suluhu Hassan's intervention to resolve the Yanga–Simba football dispute was both timely and necessary.
But that it had to reach her desk in the first place is a damning indictment of the leadership at the Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) and the Tanzania Premier League Board (TPLB).
