ISSA bans reckless father for three years

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Saturday, November 07, 2009

The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) and the Inter-Secondary School Sports Association (ISSA) have taken action following the ugly incident which disrupted the Manning Cup match between Jamaica College and Calabar on Tuesday November 3, 2009.

Calabar's supporter, Paul Marsh, has been banned from all ISSA football matches for a period of three years. Marsh had invaded the field during play and pushed a Jamaica College player in the forehead. It was reported that Marsh, who is a parent of a Calabar student, assaulted the opposing player because he thought he had dealt unfairly with his son on the field of play.

There was also an incident where the car tyre of a referee was allegedly slashed in a Manning Cup game between Calabar and Excelsior High at the former home ground. As a result of that incident, Calabar's home ground has been put on probation for one year and the school is responsible for replacing the referee's tyre.

Holmwood Technical High also found themselves in hot water after two separate stone throwing incidents took place at the school's home ground during two daCosta Cup matches. Holmwood had already been placed on probation for the first incident. The subsequent decision is that no daCosta Cup games will be played at the venue for the 2010 season.

The school was also punished for having an ineligible player representing them in an Under-16 football match. Holmwood will not be able to participate in the 2010 Under-16 football competition, while the student, Roneil Scott, has been banned from any ISSA-run competition for two years, effective November 6, 2009 through to November 6, 2011. His Under-16 coach Andrew Perkins has been banned for a period of five years, also effective November 6, 2009, but ends November 6, 2014.

Those decisions and recommendations were taken after a meeting between both parties at the JFF to address concerns with the schoolboy competitions. Both parties hammered out a number of measures designed to improve the security and the general operation of the competitions.

Among the changes to be made for the remaining games in both the daCosta Cup and the Manning Cup competitions is the co-ordination of ISSA with the JFF with respect to the suitability of venues for games. A decision was also taken to have JFF vice-president Raymond Anderson in charge of competitions and member of the JFF security committee Carlton Dennis assigned to help fine tune the security plan.

A decision was also taken that ISSA will appoint a game day operations manager, who will ensure the smooth running of activities for the games. The duties of the game day operations manager would be similar to that of a JFF match commissioner.

To aid in the early dispensation of disciplinary matters, it was decided that match reports should be submitted within a maximum 48 hours and 24 hours in the case of an incident. With that being done ISSA will be in a position to dispense with all incidents within 72 hours of occurrence as was decided.

On game days all spectators will face a compulsory search.

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