"Lets forget about the 2002 World Cup dream and plan ahead. This is not a team, which can qualify for the World Cup. We are wasting available funds on them" the words of Kojo Bonsu who was in Sudan for the match and the first person to come out from Airport's VIP lounge when the team arrived.

Kojo Bonsu had not blown the trumpet yet, but his words gave the media correspondents around what was to be expected from the Minister of Youth and Sports, Mallam Ali Yusif Issa who did blow the trumpet himself and sounded a word of caution that we should take a second look at the players we invite. Which would be taking effect soon. Some Players would be affected by the Mallam's punch but according to Mallam Ali Yusif Issa, it is in the right direction and Ghanaians would soon know if his directive is in the interest of the entire nation or his.

"We are over pampering our players and we must put a stop to that"

"The is lack of Discipline in that camp"

He said that some players had presented to him their reports about the match, which he would be considering and made it clear that if Ghana would qualify for 2002 then her qualification would be as a result of a miracle since he doesn't believe we can get there.

"I have collected their reports and I am studying them and within the shortest possible time something would come out of it and it will be in the interest of Ghana soccer"

"We should consider the sort of foreign based players that we invite" According to the Minister, as the government preaches accountability and transparency, he would be making available to the nation what is being spent on the Black Stars and Ghanaians would know what is going on. He recounted what officials went through prior to the game against Liberia when the players were demanding $5000 as bonuses instead of the government's commitment of $2000 and I had to call the President of the nation who had to pacify them. They however ended up in a humiliating defeat before an expectant home crowd.

"There was no commitment, some players were just running up and down". Mallam Issa claims that the foreign-based players especially, are a bad influence to their local ones. "We've over pampered the foreign-based players for far too long," he repeated once again.

Head coach, Cecil Jones Attuquayefio was nowhere to be found for his comments.

From the Minister's views, it is very clear that Jones is on his way out.

According to Jacob Nettey, nothing happened, answering a question as what accounted for their defeat. "We would qualify, we would beat Nigeria in Accra then we get 6points then we will also beat Liberia in Freetown."

"The fight hasn't ended, its still on, we are still playing. In football, one has to win whilst the other loses, we need a consistent team to be able to achieve the World Cup dream" said Emmanuel Osei Kuffour.

"The players did well except that the Sudanese were much stronger and committed but I didn't see much commitment from our players. Jones has to make a choice. Ghana football is in deep crisis. Player indiscipline is too high. Jones was calling for all players to come down for the team to train together but it fell on deaf ears. I think some of the foreign-based players are still committed. Some of them have grown horns, which honestly would augur well for Ghana soccer. Duah is committed so is C.K Akonnor, We cannot beat Nigeria, if we put up this same performance We are therefore in deep, deep trouble, comments of Ackah Anthony, a sports journalist who accompanied the team to Sudan.