<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=TopStory>Football feud</SPAN>
<SPAN class=Subheadline>Another move to oust Boxhill quashed</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>KAYON RAYNOR, Observer staff reporter
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=365 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>JFF president Crenston Boxhill (left) and general secretary Burchell Gibson at the launch of the NPL last Thursday at the offices of the JFF. </SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>A cloud of uncertainty is hanging over the nation's football programme following Sunday's failed attempt by the South Central Confederation to pass a motion seeking to bring forward the Jamaica Football Federation's (JFF's) Voting Congress next year by 11 months.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The motion, brought by Manchester FA president Dale Spencer and seconded by former St Catherine FA president Lincoln 'Happy' Sutherland, proposed that the Voting Congress, which is constitutionally due November 2007, be advanced to no later than January 31, 2007, in an attempt to oust incumbent president Crenston Boxhill.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Yesterday, an irate Burchell Gibson, general-secretary of the JFF, told the Observer that Spencer's faction is trying to destroy the nation's football.<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=120 align=left border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>SPENCER ... we have several strategies, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>"When Heron Dale was the president - and you can quote me - the same persons who are behind this no-confidence vote got him out of office," screamed Gibson.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"I can also safely say that what they have been doing since the no-confidence vote (in February), is to be spending big monies to try and win voters and what they are doing is bringing the sport into disrepute, similar to a political climate, which is unethical for the development of the sport in the country."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Gibson further stated: "Those who are moving the no-confidence vote are apart of a plan, and that plan is to mash-up football in Jamaica by purporting that the national team is not performing and the football is now mash-up."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Eighteen voting members of the board were present at the time of the motion on Sunday, in addition to Gibson, who is not entitled to cast a ballot.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Nine members voted for the motion, eight voted against it, while there was one abstention.<P class=StoryText align=justify>In moving the motion, the South Central Confederation claimed that it was aimed at "renewing and revitalising the organisation" in an effort to give the JFF the "kind of unity and confidence" which would allow it to garner support from the various stakeholders such as the "government, private sector and general membership".<P class=StoryText align=justify>"This was critical," the Confederation said, as the local governing body "faces the challenges of 2007 and forward on to Africa 2010", the next World Cup Football Finals.
The South Central Confed also claimed that the motion was "legal" and "appropriate" at this time.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Gibson told the Observer yesterday that the motion was annulled because it did not get the required support needed to be passed in accordance with article 72 of the JFF statutes.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"As per article 72, they failed to get three-quarters of th
<SPAN class=Subheadline>Another move to oust Boxhill quashed</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>KAYON RAYNOR, Observer staff reporter
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=365 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>JFF president Crenston Boxhill (left) and general secretary Burchell Gibson at the launch of the NPL last Thursday at the offices of the JFF. </SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>A cloud of uncertainty is hanging over the nation's football programme following Sunday's failed attempt by the South Central Confederation to pass a motion seeking to bring forward the Jamaica Football Federation's (JFF's) Voting Congress next year by 11 months.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The motion, brought by Manchester FA president Dale Spencer and seconded by former St Catherine FA president Lincoln 'Happy' Sutherland, proposed that the Voting Congress, which is constitutionally due November 2007, be advanced to no later than January 31, 2007, in an attempt to oust incumbent president Crenston Boxhill.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Yesterday, an irate Burchell Gibson, general-secretary of the JFF, told the Observer that Spencer's faction is trying to destroy the nation's football.<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=120 align=left border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>SPENCER ... we have several strategies, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>"When Heron Dale was the president - and you can quote me - the same persons who are behind this no-confidence vote got him out of office," screamed Gibson.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"I can also safely say that what they have been doing since the no-confidence vote (in February), is to be spending big monies to try and win voters and what they are doing is bringing the sport into disrepute, similar to a political climate, which is unethical for the development of the sport in the country."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Gibson further stated: "Those who are moving the no-confidence vote are apart of a plan, and that plan is to mash-up football in Jamaica by purporting that the national team is not performing and the football is now mash-up."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Eighteen voting members of the board were present at the time of the motion on Sunday, in addition to Gibson, who is not entitled to cast a ballot.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Nine members voted for the motion, eight voted against it, while there was one abstention.<P class=StoryText align=justify>In moving the motion, the South Central Confederation claimed that it was aimed at "renewing and revitalising the organisation" in an effort to give the JFF the "kind of unity and confidence" which would allow it to garner support from the various stakeholders such as the "government, private sector and general membership".<P class=StoryText align=justify>"This was critical," the Confederation said, as the local governing body "faces the challenges of 2007 and forward on to Africa 2010", the next World Cup Football Finals.
The South Central Confed also claimed that the motion was "legal" and "appropriate" at this time.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Gibson told the Observer yesterday that the motion was annulled because it did not get the required support needed to be passed in accordance with article 72 of the JFF statutes.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"As per article 72, they failed to get three-quarters of th
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