There are calls to protect the First Capital Plus Premier league from foreign leagues and the only way to do that is to ban foreign leagues on free-to-air local television stations.

This is according to Ghana FA spokesperson Ibrahim Sannie Darra.

Currently, TV3 Network is the only free-to-air television station that has the broadcast rights to televise this season’s English Premier League.

As some are fascinated about watching the foreign leagues some have blamed the live coverage of the foreign leagues on local free-to-air television stations as one of the major causes of the declining patronage of the Premier League and low attendance recorded at match venues.

Daara admonished the abolishing of live telecast of foreign leagues to protect and promote the local game

“The English premier league is protecting its league internally by preventing free to air television stations from showing their matches,” he told Joy Sports.

“We need a legislation, I said this last year and I will insist again, people who even don’t understand and have not been to England don’t understand television stations like BBC 1, BBC 2 and channel 3,4,5 and ITV don’t have the rights to show live premier league matches.

“But in Ghana, free to air television is showing live premier league matches, if they are protecting their product, what are we doing to protect the jobs, over hundred people are employed by SuperSports  doing the Ghana premier league.

“If the league should grind to a halt more than 300 journalists are going out of job so is our duty to protect it.”

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