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SportGlobe
December 5-11, 2012
Email: sportglobe2005@yahoo.com
MARC STAMP
SportGlobe Writer
T
he Inter-Secondary
Schools Sports Associ-
ation’s (ISSA) empha-
sis on maximising gate
receipts was taken to a
controversial low for the
Saturday, December 1,
daCosta Cup final
between Glemuir High
and
St
Elizabeth
Technical.
ISSA, without due notice,
and throwing its 2012 rule
book out the window,
rescinded accumulation of
yellow cards that would have
seen captains of both finalists
missing the title match at the
Montego Bay Sports Complex,
Catherine Hall, St James.
ISSA’s about-turn first came to
light when media reported that nei-
ther Kamal Henry, Glenmuir’s cap-
tain, or STETHS’s skipper, Rodney
Witter, would have played in the final
due to accumulated cards.
However, ISSA’s competitions officer,
George Forbes, in ‘correcting’ the press,
let the cat out the bag, saying both were
eligible as the cards were rescinded “to
have the best players in the final”.
SportGlobe
later uncovered that
ISSA had moved the goalposts, annuling
all cards issued by referees up to the
quarter-final round.
ANNULMENT
No prior announcement was made and
the annulment of cards was contrary to
the rules appearing in ISSA’s handbook
issued late August at the launch of the
schoolboy football season.
A section in ISSA’s Football Rules and
Guidelines (revised 2012), reads:
“If a
player receives three yellow card in a sea-
son he will automatically miss the next
match in the competition or extension of
said competition.”
Forbes, contacted on Monday,
December 5, by
SportGlobe
, was defi-
ant.
DAVE LINDO
SportGlobe Writer
P
RINCIPAL
Monacia
Williams proudly declared
that Glenmuir did not need
to recruit any “star ballers” to
win the daCosta Cup title, point-
ing out there was no vacancy at
the Clarendon school for any
such importee as she had “11
more star ballers on the bench”.
Weiging in on the hot topic rus-
tled to life by SportGlobe’s
November 21-27 edition in which
Minister of Education Ronald
Thwaites described the recruiting
of student athletes as “vulgar”,
Williams described her stance as
being “middle of the road”.
“People take these students
into schools not because they are
generally concerned about the
students’ welfare, but because
they want to build up either the
athletic prowess or the football
prowess in their schools,” she
pointed out.
“Generally, these are weak stu-
dents, academically. If you take
them in, there should be some
programmes put in place so that
they can improve on their aca-
demic skills, as well as athletic
skills.
“When you take them and
expect them to fit in, academically,
with other students it doesn’t
work,” Williams added, pointing
out that, “schools use children
and after they get too old, or
can’t repeat anymore, they fade
away into oblivion”.
With regards to taking players
from another school into sixth
form, Williams was not totally in
agreement with that practice.
MINIMUM QUALIFICAT
IONS
“It’s not something I would do.
If the child is coming with the
same minimum qualifications as
my students (five passes in
Caribbean Secondary Education
Certificate subjects, including
mathematics and English lan-
guage, grade one or two) coming
into sixth form, then I don’t have
a problem.
“However, if he is going to
come in with less than the quali-
fications of what I require of my
students, then I am not going to
do it.
“Sixth-form places are limited
and he would be robbing my stu-
dents of a place for the sake of
football, cricket, basketball or
any other sport. If they have the
qualifications, they can come,”
she said.
Glenmuir’s coach, Patrick
‘Jackie’ Walters, said he has not
recruited any player for the last
three years.
Though not against the prac-
tice of transfer or recruiting,
which, he said, may enhance
development of football in high
schools, and nationally, Walters
said the practice needs to be
restricted and not abused.
“If I take a boy from an area
where he can’t sleep due to crime
in his area, and take him down to
Glenmuir and give him a chance,
‘I have 11star players, more on the
Glenmuir principal says no need to recruit
There should be limitations, or
restrictions, of two or three players
who can be transferred to a school.
ISSA throws rule
book out window
FILE
George Forbes