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Why the Ghana football crisis must end soon

It's been two months and counting, but there is still no end in sight to the full-blown crisis that Ghana football has become.

A government delegation is attempting to convince FIFA that it can trust it to reform the country's football, and set it back on the right path after a damaging investigative piece that alleged widespread corruption among senior Ghana Football Association officials and referees.

Boosted by the work of the investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas, the government has moved in to dissolve the GFA, which Attorney-General Gloria Akuffo describes as an "obscene emblem of scandal, corruption and illegal enterprise".