Former Malta coaches say MFA behaviour ‘unacceptable’

The former Maltese national team coaches John Buttigieg and Carmel Busuttil have hit at out the Malta Football Association for arbitrarily withdrawing their coaching licences.

In a formal letter sent by their lawyer Ian Spiteri Bailey to MFA president Norman Darmanin Demajo, the two coaches and former Malta national footballers expressed surprise at the association's decisions t withdraw their licences in retaliation to a judicial protest they filed earlier this year, following their sacking from the national team.

The two coaches argued that contrary to the MFA's interpretation of their initial judicial protest against their sacking, their action was not a legal action for damages and was therefore not in breach of their contractual obligations with the association

They stressed that the MFA was being given wrong legal advice and continued to arbitrarily put them in a worse situation by denying them the right for fair hearing within the MFA's own internal organs.

"It is unacceptable that the MFA demands that we withdraw our judicial protest," the two coaches said, warning MFA of an imminent police report against senior association officials should they be denied pending salaries they are owed.