‘DAZZA’ HONOURED UNSIGNED AGREEMENT – STATUS COMMITTEE

MBABANE – The High Court will next Wednesday hear how the Football Association’s (FA) Players’ Status Committee ruled on the Darren ‘Dazza’ Christie ownership battle.

According to their answering affidavit submitted by the Committee’s Chairman Sipho Matse yesterday before the court, Christie is a Mbabane Swallows player as he honoured the loan agreement.

Matse submited in his papers that they observed that the loan agreements between Swallows and Manzini Sundowns, where he played until last season before joining Matsapha United now, were unsigned by the applicant (Christie).

“However, we also observed that these agreements had been honoured by the applicant and accordingly, it is preposterous for the applicant to now contend that these loan agreements were not lawful, when he himself performed in terms of those agreements, received remuneration in terms of the very agreements,” he says in the affidavit. He goes on to say that he fails to appreciate the wisdom of the submission by applicant that there was no signature, because to seek to set aside the loan agreements as per applicant’s prayer would be tantamount to ‘trying to unscramble a scrambled egg’.

“It would require undoing the performance of a contract that was done over a three-year period,” he argued.
He further crushed the applicant on the point of the contracts not bearing a stamp of authenticity from the FA saying there’s no regulation that provides for it. The matter was not heard yesterday but postponed to next week and it is before High Court Judge Titus Mlangeni.

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