{"id":29211,"date":"2011-09-08T23:55:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T03:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=29211"},"modified":"2011-09-08T23:55:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T03:55:44","slug":"slafa-puts-1st-division-play-offs-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=29211","title":{"rendered":"SLAFA puts 1st Division play-offs on hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sierra Leone Football Association wishes to inform the general public and all football stakeholders in the country that it has put on hold its current First Division play-offs in the Western area until further notice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The decision is based on a ruling from the High Court of Sierra Leone after hearing an interim injunction request from a WAFA First Division outfit Sheffield United on Thursday 8 September, 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court however ruled that, Sheffield United directs its appeal to the Western Area Appeal\u2019s Committee for adjudication hence its decision becomes binding on all parties concerned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition, the Court has also mandated WAFA to come out with a decision on this matter within the next seven (7) days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the Football Association once again wants to appeal to all stakeholders to exercise patience until a decision is reached by the Western Area Football Association Appeal\u2019s Committee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further to that, the scheduled National First Division play-offs in Makeni and Magburaka has invariably been put on hold until all the pending hold-ups are cleared.<\/p>\n<p><em>By SLFA Secretariat<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sierra Leone Football Association wishes to inform the general public and all football stakeholders in the country that it has put on hold its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[9981,5635,7555,1574],"class_list":["post-29211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-first-division-play-offs","tag-sierra-leone-football-association","tag-slafa","tag-slfa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}