{"id":443473,"date":"2017-12-04T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/04\/the-standard-has-fallen-nyantakyi-slams-sports-journalists\/"},"modified":"2017-12-04T12:00:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T12:00:26","slug":"the-standard-has-fallen-nyantakyi-slams-sports-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/04\/the-standard-has-fallen-nyantakyi-slams-sports-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The standard has fallen&#8217; &#8211; Nyantakyi slams sports journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Monday,  4 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>El-Amisty Nobo<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-04<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/64498981.295.jpg\" alt=\"Nyantakyi Caf Elections\" title=\"Nyantakyi Caf Elections\" width=\"295\" height=\"198\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>GFA  President, Kwesi Nyantakyi<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813921649\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813921649\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512388826_392_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The head of the Ghana Football Association, Kwesi Nyantakyi has released a fresh acidic venom on Ghanaian sports journalists questioning how they have thrown the standard of the profession into the mud.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a three-day brainstorming summit in Cape Coast on Wednesday, November 29, the President of the Ghana Football Association craftily lashed out at the media:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The standards of journalism we knew when growing up which was clearly espoused by people like Kwabena Yeboah, Joe Aggrey,  Carl Tuffour, Felix Abayatey&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is regrettable that they did not hand over the standards beyond their generation,&#8221; Mr. Kwesi Nyantakyi stated unequivocally.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly speaking, the above unfortunate comments from Mr. Kwesi Nyantakyi is an indictment on the above-mentioned names because it goes to suggest that they have failed to pass on the knowledge baton they inherited onto the current generation.<\/p>\n<p>What is more, Mr. Kwesi Nyantakyi made those statements in the presence of the President of the Sports Writers Association of Ghana [SWAG] &#8211; Mr. Kwabena Yeboah.<\/p>\n<p>He [Mr. Nyantakyi] further reiterated that the GFA would like to bond well with the Sports Writers Association of Ghana moving forward whilst assisting the SWAG to organizing seminars for the media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to build a strong relationship with SWAG.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to help SWAG to understand what we do better. They already know, but we want to provide more information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to work with SWAG to organize seminars for the media so that the media can also interrogate our activities further.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite scolding the media, Mr. Kwesi Nyantakyi however, believes that the media and the GFA are partners and must work together to achieve a common objective.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that both the media and the GFA are partners with a common objective of developing the game.<\/p>\n<p>One would have expected the man tagged with &#8216;sika die&#8217; to use the platform to explain how the Ghana Football Association intends to collaborate with the media in developing the game [football] right from the grassroot to the professional level instead of &#8216;farting into the air&#8217; vitriolically.<\/p>\n<p>This is because such stirring comments only goes to provoke a range of like responses.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Kwesi Nyantakyi is fond of releasing pernicious attacks on persons that share divergent opinions from his and it&#8217;s quite legendary the way he labels such people at the least opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, he once described Hon. Nii Lante Vanderpuye who was then the Minister of Youth and Sports as a &#8216;serial caller.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kwesi Nyantakyi is also on record to have chided the media as a group of &#8216;thoughtless pranks&#8217; who speaks without first thinking.<\/p>\n<p>The President of the Ghana Football Association also flexed his muscles about the number of cases he has filed against media practitioners and even waxed lyrically that he has a lot more to file.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me as a person you know I have court cases with people and that is the reason for it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t regret for going to court and I can assure you I have more cases to file just to clear my name, I am not interested in any compensation from anybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 55 updated by: 55 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Monday, 4 December 2017 Source: El-Amisty Nobo 2017-12-04 GFA President, Kwesi Nyantakyi The head of the Ghana Football Association, Kwesi Nyantakyi has released a fresh acidic venom on Ghanaian sports journalists questioning how they have thrown the standard of the profession into the mud. 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