Zakhem accepts Letshwiti’s BFL bashing

Letshwiti had no kind words for the BFL, which obtained full autonomy in 2020, during the organ’s inaugural General Assembly in Gaborone on Saturday. The BFA president, who was the guest speaker, took the opportunity to tear into the BFL. Letshwiti said if the state of affairs persisted, the BFA could be forced to take over the running of the BFL.

The Premier League has for long been under the ambit of the BFA until a recent decision to grant the organ autonomy. However, the BFL has found the going tough, with sponsors hard to come by while the issue of Club Licensing has been the constant Achilles Heel. Only last month, the BFA National Executive Committee (NEC) had to intervene after the First Instance Body (FIB) had denied five clubs licences. It was the same last season when a similar number of clubs failed to get a license resulting in the authorities exercising leniency through the granting of provisional licences.