New President, Same old problem.

The foul which resulted in a penalty during the semi final
(clearly outside the box)

Doctor Sahu khan's 26 years as the Fiji Football president came to an end recently when he was replaced by Rajesh Patel.

However one of the biggest problems in Fiji soccer reared its ugly head once again during the annual Inter District Championship in Suva earlier this week.

Bad refereeing has constantly been highlighted in Fiji but Sahu khan always denied it and protected the referees even when they constantly made bad calls.

Lautokas IDC came to an end during the semi finals when Veteran referee, Bobby Dave gave a blatantly bad penalty to Labasa for a foul which clearly happened outside the box.

The Lautoka side were understandably disappointed, as their money time and efforts were wasted because of a stupid call by a referee.

The Lautoka Football president Shelendra Prasad highlighted the need for refereeing standards to improve.

We feel that we were hard done by the match officials. The incident happened out of the box. One wrong decision and the tournament was over for us. This is not the first time that this has happened to us. We will hold an emergency executive meeting to discuss this issue and raise our concerns with Fiji FA. Certainly, the parent body needs to up lift the standard of refereeing in the country.

In the past referees have been able to get away with what ever they please, not having to face any consequences.

An official complaint has been lodged against the referee and the public will now have to wait to see if this new president does something about an obvious problem or just like his predecessor waves the problem away.