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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><DIV><SPAN class=TopStory>Unbelievable! You are on solid ground for protesting the farce, but you don't dare remove your burqa! They should have just kept quiet!</SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class=TopStory></SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class=TopStory>OUTRAGE!</SPAN>
<SPAN class=Subheadline>Football experts hopping mad at CFU for format change and perceived bias against Jamaica</SPAN></DIV></TD></TR><TR><TD>Observer Reporter
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
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</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>HUNT... the guys are focused and they are trying to do their best</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>[B]Jamaican football experts have condemned the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) for what they see as a tasteless and unethical act to prevent the nation's Under-16 football team from retaining its Caribbean Youth Cup with a fly-by-night changing of the competition's format.,/B><P class=StoryText align=justify>The general comment is that Jamaica got a "raw deal".
The experts with whom the Observer spoke yesterday refused to make "public comments" or be identified, but they were clearly peeved by the action and flimsy explanation given by the regional body. The Observer sensed the experts refused public comments out of fear of possible repercussions.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"It has got to be unethical to do something like that, changing the format in the middle of a FIFA-sanctioned tournament," one expert said. "The JFF must have already appealed to the CFU," he added. "They can't allow this to go on."
"The act is gross," another football expert, who requested anonymity, said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Yet another said: "This could be a ploy to make the present football federation president look bad, after he already is not doing a good job. The frightening thing about such a move is that it could only hurt our young footballers' development, especially by putting them in a group with Mexico and Canada, two teams who traditionally have beaten our team."
Yesterday, the Young Boyz overcame the odds to blank Canada 3-0 in their Group B game in Tobago.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Dever Orgill (26th), John Ross-Doyley (86th) and Keneil Hyde in time added, enabled the Young Boyz to avenge last year's 4-2 semi-finals loss against the North Americans.
In the other Group B game, Mexico stopped Panama 2-1.
The Young Boyz will face Panama tomorrow, and Mexico on Friday.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Like the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) president Crenston Boxhill, coach David Hunt was taking the format change in stride.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"We are a bit disappointed with the change, but we need to tell them (Jamaicans) that the guys are focused and they are trying to do their best," he said from Tobago last evening during Sports Grill on Hitz 92 FM.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Meanwhile, a stony silence greeted the Observer yesterday whyen the newspaper tried to get an explanation from the CFU general-secretary Kerri-Ann Alleyne.<P class=StoryText align=justify>When telephone contact was made with the office, the Observer reporter was stalled for about five minutes by an operator who asked the reporter to wait as Alleyne was on another call. The operator eventually returned to the line to say "the general-secretary has left for the day".
In the original format of the competition, Jamaica, who were winners of Group F after three unbeaten games, were slated to play Group C winners Barbados today, but were indecently asked to travel to Tobago on Sunday to face Canada in a quarter-final match yesterday.
Despite yesterday's win, the move could gre
<SPAN class=Subheadline>Football experts hopping mad at CFU for format change and perceived bias against Jamaica</SPAN></DIV></TD></TR><TR><TD>Observer Reporter
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
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</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>HUNT... the guys are focused and they are trying to do their best</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>[B]Jamaican football experts have condemned the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) for what they see as a tasteless and unethical act to prevent the nation's Under-16 football team from retaining its Caribbean Youth Cup with a fly-by-night changing of the competition's format.,/B><P class=StoryText align=justify>The general comment is that Jamaica got a "raw deal".The experts with whom the Observer spoke yesterday refused to make "public comments" or be identified, but they were clearly peeved by the action and flimsy explanation given by the regional body. The Observer sensed the experts refused public comments out of fear of possible repercussions.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"It has got to be unethical to do something like that, changing the format in the middle of a FIFA-sanctioned tournament," one expert said. "The JFF must have already appealed to the CFU," he added. "They can't allow this to go on."
"The act is gross," another football expert, who requested anonymity, said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Yet another said: "This could be a ploy to make the present football federation president look bad, after he already is not doing a good job. The frightening thing about such a move is that it could only hurt our young footballers' development, especially by putting them in a group with Mexico and Canada, two teams who traditionally have beaten our team."
Yesterday, the Young Boyz overcame the odds to blank Canada 3-0 in their Group B game in Tobago.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Dever Orgill (26th), John Ross-Doyley (86th) and Keneil Hyde in time added, enabled the Young Boyz to avenge last year's 4-2 semi-finals loss against the North Americans.
In the other Group B game, Mexico stopped Panama 2-1.
The Young Boyz will face Panama tomorrow, and Mexico on Friday.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Like the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) president Crenston Boxhill, coach David Hunt was taking the format change in stride.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"We are a bit disappointed with the change, but we need to tell them (Jamaicans) that the guys are focused and they are trying to do their best," he said from Tobago last evening during Sports Grill on Hitz 92 FM.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Meanwhile, a stony silence greeted the Observer yesterday whyen the newspaper tried to get an explanation from the CFU general-secretary Kerri-Ann Alleyne.<P class=StoryText align=justify>When telephone contact was made with the office, the Observer reporter was stalled for about five minutes by an operator who asked the reporter to wait as Alleyne was on another call. The operator eventually returned to the line to say "the general-secretary has left for the day".
In the original format of the competition, Jamaica, who were winners of Group F after three unbeaten games, were slated to play Group C winners Barbados today, but were indecently asked to travel to Tobago on Sunday to face Canada in a quarter-final match yesterday.
Despite yesterday's win, the move could gre
