Folkes blasts FIFA
Published:Monday | February 8, 2010 | 8:52 AM
Ousted Grenada Football Association president Ashley Folkes has blasted Football\'s governing body FIFA for its decision to fire his entire executive.
Folkes described FIFA\'s action to remove his group as high-handed and arbitrary and pledged to contest the ruling.
FIFA\'s executive committee dismissed the Folkes executive after receiving a report from its attorney John Collins, who travelled to Grenada last year to investigate an ongoing row in the Grenada Football Association.
FIFA decision backed 19 of the 35 clubs of the Grenada Football Association which voted to remove the Folkes executive during an Extra-ordinary meeting of the General Council last year.
About two years ago, FIFA ruled that the Folkes executive was guilty of violating Grenada Football Association statutes. The executive had refused to hold an Extra-ordinary General Meeting of the council to entertain a no-confidence motion against the body.
A FIFA endorsed five-man committee headed by speaker of the Grenada Parliament George McGuire is currently paving the way for fresh General elections.