Quote by Ingo Zachos:
The decison to forfeit a player is always unfair to the player involved, and the WCDF already has done this too many times.
The bitter truth is that the WCDF can not stage a match and is not able to run a WC or a QT on his own.
We need the support of local organizers, especially national federations.
Also, the WCDF is no good mediator between two parties, but, also a bitter truth, is run by amateurs like me who can only allocate little time to our duties.
My goodness Ingo, what a scathing indictment of the WCDF.
In that case what right has the WCDF to disqualify anyone at all ?
On the evidence produced on this Forum so far, there are some clear facts that emerge.
I refer to two documents shown on the forum recently:
Ref A: Copy of Turkmenistan bid.
Ref B: Posting from Alex Moiseyev dated Sun Aug 02, 2009 11:09 pm
Ref A: The Turkmenistan bid was made in the Manat denomination of currency.
There was no mechanism for conversion of the Manat into a hard currency such as the dollar.
What was the lady to do? - run around like a headless chicken in a foreign country trying to find a banker or financier as outlined in Ref B, or more likely someone on the black market to convert currency.
Do all that, as well as play in the match ! No, that was not on.
There is a strong
prima facie case for claiming that the WCDF had set un-workable conditions and was grossly incompetent there, firstly for not even recognising the problem and secondly for doing too little too late when it was pointed out to them.
No bid should have been accepted which did not provide a firm proposal for the conversion and payment of moneys in an exportable currency.
It reminds one of the state of affairs when Britain was forced to withdraw from the ERM (Exchange Rate Mechanism) on Black Wednesday , 16 September 1992.
As mentioned by someone when that crisis occurred. “It’a a Lamontable situation.”
Perhaps it is time for John Reade as the Liaison Officer to the FMJD to initiate an Independent Inquiry by the FMJD into the whole affair. Such a course of action would be a fair and just way to resolve the matter.
I’m sure Tommy Canning will excuse me if I quote one of his punch lines :
“Nothing less will do.”
PS - BTW The statement at para 3 of a post by Alex Moiseyev on Thu Jul 30, 2009 5:42 pm flatly contradicts the WCDF claim that the failure to provide the air tickets was not, at least, a primary (even if not the ultimate) cause for the failure of the Barbados match to take place.
