Dansoman-based Liberty Professionals dropped the valuable points at home when they were held to a barren draw by Heart of Lions in their sixth week clash of the 2007/08 Onetouch Premier League match at the Dansoman Carl Reindorf Park on Sunday. It was the first time Liberty had failed to grab the maximum points at home, with Lions giving them their toughest opposition yet this season. The match was characterized by midfield action as both sides made little inroads into each other’s half throughout the game. Liberty started the game on a high note, sending positive signals to their fans that the maximum points was up for grabs, but the attacking duo of Kofi Nti Boakye and Yaw Antwi found the defence of Lions a tall mountain to climb. The homesters had the brightest chance of the session in the 30 and 34th minute but the agility of Lions goalkeeper Adjetey Mozart robbed them of the opener. Lions resumed the second half strongly with substitute Gordon Yeboah who replaced Solomon Okutu adding more bite to their compact midfield, which revolved around good old Edmund Owusu Ansah, Obed Ansah and George Yamoah. Lions managed to marshal their way through the Liberty rear and in the 63rd minute, they nearly broke the deadlock, but Liberty’s goalie Patrick Antwi parried away Yeboah’s powerful volley from the edge of the penalty area. Ten minutes later Liberty’s striker Nti Boakye had his plea for a penalty called off by the centre referee after he was fouled in the penalty area by Godfred Rockson. Lions had the better of the exchanges during the last quarter but still failed to score with striker Dominic Adiyiah blasting wide a fine opportunity on the stroke of full time. The scheduled Onetouch Premier League match between Sekondi Hasaacas and Real Tamale United (RTU) was called off because of a clash of jerseys by the two teams. Both Hasaacas and RTU put on green jerseys for the match but during the pre-match meeting at about 2.30 p.m., Nana Justice Morgan, the Match Commissioner, asked RTU to change their jerseys because Hasaacas had registered to use green jerseys for their home matches. He said according to the rules of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), every team has to have alternative jerseys for their away matches which they have to change to when there is clash of jerseys. RTU however did not have alternative jerseys and told the match officials that their alternative jerseys were being transported from Accra to Sekondi. When by 3.30 p.m., the jerseys had not arrived, Referee Nathaniel Plange whistled to call off the match. Meanwhile RTU have protest the decision of referee Nathaniel Plange to declare them losers of the match. The Tamale-based club was said to have been declared losers after allegedly refusing to change their jerseys after a clash of colours with the home side, Hasaacas. Speaking to GNA Sports in a telephone chat, Abdul Kadir Ibrahim, Secretary of RTU expressed shock at the referee’s decision to declare them the losers despite agreeing to change the colours. Ibrahim noted that RTU’s away strip is light green with that of Hasaacas being deep green but they were shocked at the referee’s claim of a “Clash of Colours”, despite their using the same kit last season. He explained that after 25 minutes of exchanges, they agreed to change into their home strip, which is blue and returned to the pitch for the game to commence Ibrahim, however, said to their surprise ten minutes later referee Plange after consultations with some persons, whom he described as not being the match officials decided to call off the match with a claim of awarding the points to Hasaacas. The Secretary said that the referee’s final decision was influenced by officials of Hasaacas who confronted him in the heat of the exchanges. Ibrahim said that his team would lodge an official protest to the Professional League Board (PLB) for the appropriate ruling to be taking. Source: GNA