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GFA vs GCA; Floodlights, Fatorda and Kicks backs

Why in Goa, we have to increasingly take recourse to the Law Courts to solve our problems is a question which has been troubling me for last couple of years. Garbage, Coastal Regulation Zone violations, Coastal shacks, has been some of the burning topics which have landed on the doorsteps of the Courts. The legal luminaries have been looked upon to deliver justice, pass judgments and come to decisions where the spineless politicians and the bureaucracy, which were suppose to help in the decision-making process have run out of options. The great Goan fight over trivial and non-trivial things, from business to environment has been ranging in the small state of India for quite some time. Now it is the turn of sports to join the bandwagon. Boxing Day is almost one month away, but if Goa Football Association (GFA) secretary Savio Messais threat of approaching the courts for recourse to using the Nehru Stadium at Fatorda is to be taken seriously, then Goans will well might see a prelude of t