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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=TopStory>Manchester banker calls for support of JFF</SPAN>
<SPAN class=Subheadline></SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>By Garfield Myers Editor-at-large South Central Bureau
Saturday, October 28, 2006
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<P class=StoryText align=justify>MANDEVILLE, Manchester - He insists he is not encouraging "blind support" but leading Mandeville banker, Winston Lawson, is calling on the football fraternity to throw its weight behind the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) administration of Crenston Boxhill in the interest of Jamaica's football.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"I admit I may not be as well informed on the real issues, however, I can state unequivocally that if the current national football administration does not get the acceptable level of support from its membership . the sport will not grow and will indeed worsen," Lawson, who is head of the National Commercial Bank's (NCB) Mandeville Branch, told the Manchester Football Association's Presentation of Awards ceremony at the Golf View Hotel recently.<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=330 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>
</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Pictured (from left), Peter Reid, president St Catherine Football Association, Winston Lawson, branch manager NCB-Mandeville and Keynote Speaker Dalton Wint, general secretary Manchester Football Association, and Dale Spencer, president Manchester Football Association during the Manchester Football Association's Presentation of Awards ceremony at the Golf View Hotel recently. </SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>Added he: "No leader can function well without support . None. We have already seen the destructive climate in our politics, heavily polarised and simply non-supportive of each other, to the detriment of our country. Similarly there seems to be a constant tearing away at this national administration which I dare say is not healthy for the future of Jamaica's football," he said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"My personal fear is that the sport may find itself in a dreadful constant tearing away of successive administrations with the bigger issue of Jamaica's football being the real loser."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Lawson's comments raised eyebrows since his chief host, the head of the Manchester FA and chairman of the JFF's South Central Confederation, Dale Spencer, who was at the head table, is currently at loggerheads with the Boxhill administration. This, following Spencer's recent move of a motion aimed at bringing forward next year's JFF voting congress, which is held every four years, to January instead of November.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Boxhill supporters claimed the motion - which is said to have been supported 9-8 and the status of which remains unclear - was purely political aimed only at replacing Boxhill by former football boss Captain Horace Burrell.<P class=StoryText align=justify>But Spencer and his supporters say the motion was only intended to get the election, which seem certain to be highly divisive, out of the way, well ahead of the start of Jamaica's bid for a place at the FIFA World Cup finals in South Africa in 2010.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Lawson, who is also the immediate past president of the Mandeville Rotarians, told the awards ceremony that he was urging "support" for the Boxhill administration not because he was "taking sides for or against any administration". He said he was "simply sounding a warning that the sport does not want to be managed by another polarised system."<P class=StoryText align=justify>During the awards presentation, New Green FC copped the top prize for winning the Captain's Bakery Manchester Major League Trophy. The second prize went to Hillstars FCwhile Porus FC plac
<SPAN class=Subheadline></SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>By Garfield Myers Editor-at-large South Central Bureau
Saturday, October 28, 2006
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<P class=StoryText align=justify>MANDEVILLE, Manchester - He insists he is not encouraging "blind support" but leading Mandeville banker, Winston Lawson, is calling on the football fraternity to throw its weight behind the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) administration of Crenston Boxhill in the interest of Jamaica's football.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"I admit I may not be as well informed on the real issues, however, I can state unequivocally that if the current national football administration does not get the acceptable level of support from its membership . the sport will not grow and will indeed worsen," Lawson, who is head of the National Commercial Bank's (NCB) Mandeville Branch, told the Manchester Football Association's Presentation of Awards ceremony at the Golf View Hotel recently.<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=330 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>
</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Pictured (from left), Peter Reid, president St Catherine Football Association, Winston Lawson, branch manager NCB-Mandeville and Keynote Speaker Dalton Wint, general secretary Manchester Football Association, and Dale Spencer, president Manchester Football Association during the Manchester Football Association's Presentation of Awards ceremony at the Golf View Hotel recently. </SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>Added he: "No leader can function well without support . None. We have already seen the destructive climate in our politics, heavily polarised and simply non-supportive of each other, to the detriment of our country. Similarly there seems to be a constant tearing away at this national administration which I dare say is not healthy for the future of Jamaica's football," he said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"My personal fear is that the sport may find itself in a dreadful constant tearing away of successive administrations with the bigger issue of Jamaica's football being the real loser."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Lawson's comments raised eyebrows since his chief host, the head of the Manchester FA and chairman of the JFF's South Central Confederation, Dale Spencer, who was at the head table, is currently at loggerheads with the Boxhill administration. This, following Spencer's recent move of a motion aimed at bringing forward next year's JFF voting congress, which is held every four years, to January instead of November.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Boxhill supporters claimed the motion - which is said to have been supported 9-8 and the status of which remains unclear - was purely political aimed only at replacing Boxhill by former football boss Captain Horace Burrell.<P class=StoryText align=justify>But Spencer and his supporters say the motion was only intended to get the election, which seem certain to be highly divisive, out of the way, well ahead of the start of Jamaica's bid for a place at the FIFA World Cup finals in South Africa in 2010.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Lawson, who is also the immediate past president of the Mandeville Rotarians, told the awards ceremony that he was urging "support" for the Boxhill administration not because he was "taking sides for or against any administration". He said he was "simply sounding a warning that the sport does not want to be managed by another polarised system."<P class=StoryText align=justify>During the awards presentation, New Green FC copped the top prize for winning the Captain's Bakery Manchester Major League Trophy. The second prize went to Hillstars FCwhile Porus FC plac
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