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<TABLE class="moving articleDiv null" id=Art style="DISPLAY: block; Z-INDEX: 800; LEFT: 270px; VISIBILITY: visible; WIDTH: 600px; TOP: 60px; HEIGHT: 450px" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 maxwidth="90%" maxheight="90%" related="articleContent" minwidth="600" minheight="200"><TBODY><TR height="100%"><TD id=ARTICLEWIN_CONTENT vAlign=center align=middle bgColor=#ffffff colSpan=2><TABLE style="BORDER-TOP: black 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 2px solid" height="100%" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width="100%"><DIV id=articleContent style="OVERFLOW: auto; WIDTH: 600px; HEIGHT: 100%"><DIV class=scrolling id=insideDiv style="PADDING-RIGHT: 21px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"><DIV class=HTMLTitle><SPAN id=Ar0270000 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">War of words! </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0270001 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">... Tomlinson accuses Downswell of verbal abuse ahead of football vote </SPAN></DIV><BR style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal"><BR style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal"><DIV class=HTMLByline><SPAN id=Ar0270007 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">BY PAUL A REID Observer writer </SPAN><BR style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal"></DIV><BR style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal"><DIV class=HTMLContent style="OVERFLOW: auto"><SPAN id=Ar0270002 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">FROME, Westmoreland — Tonight's Annual General Meeting of the Westmoreland Football Association (WFA) at the Frome Sports Club is shaping up to be a hot-tempered affair. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">The latest in what has been a series of incidents took place at the offices of the WFA just before noon yesterday, when president Everton Tomlinson claimed he was verbally abused by former national coach Wendell Downswell, who is running for the post of first vice-president on the Junior Francis slate. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Tomlinson claims he has filed a complaint with the police after the alleged abuse. </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0270003 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"></SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">When contacted, Downswell vigorously denied the allegations saying: “I did not do anything like that... the only thing I told him was that the constitution states that the clubs can change their delegates at any time before the election and that the WFA does not have their own constitution, so they use the JFF’s which states that up to the day of the elections, delegates can be changed.” </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Downswell suggested that Tomlinson is nervous ahead of tonight’s poll, having recognised the strength of the opposition. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Dale Spence, president of the Manchester FA and chairman of the South Central Confederation and ally of the incumbent, has been asked to oversee the voting, but Tomlinson </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0270004 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">said the Francis team wants someone else to observer proceedings on their behalf. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Despite the rumblings leading up to the elections, Tomlinson remains confident of victory and claims his record of “performance and achievements” will swing the vote in his favour. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Francis, an operations manage
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">The latest in what has been a series of incidents took place at the offices of the WFA just before noon yesterday, when president Everton Tomlinson claimed he was verbally abused by former national coach Wendell Downswell, who is running for the post of first vice-president on the Junior Francis slate. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Tomlinson claims he has filed a complaint with the police after the alleged abuse. </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0270003 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"></SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">When contacted, Downswell vigorously denied the allegations saying: “I did not do anything like that... the only thing I told him was that the constitution states that the clubs can change their delegates at any time before the election and that the WFA does not have their own constitution, so they use the JFF’s which states that up to the day of the elections, delegates can be changed.” </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Downswell suggested that Tomlinson is nervous ahead of tonight’s poll, having recognised the strength of the opposition. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Dale Spence, president of the Manchester FA and chairman of the South Central Confederation and ally of the incumbent, has been asked to oversee the voting, but Tomlinson </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0270004 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">said the Francis team wants someone else to observer proceedings on their behalf. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Despite the rumblings leading up to the elections, Tomlinson remains confident of victory and claims his record of “performance and achievements” will swing the vote in his favour. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Francis, an operations manage
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