Hayles and Burton on Target 
October 20, 2004

Jamaican strikers Barry Hayles and Deon Burton both scored fine goals to propel their respective English clubs to 2-1 victories on
Tuesday night.

Despite not playing for nearly six weeks because of injury, Hayles made a sensational return for Milwall in the English League Championship by scoring in the club's win over Gillingham.

It was Hayles' first goal for the club in only his second match, after being sidelined with a rib injury sustained on debut against Ipswich on September 12.

Following a great build-up between Dennis Wise and Jody Morris, Hayles collected the ball 20 yards from goal, used his strength to beat his marker and maintain possession, before firing an unstoppable low drive from the edge of the box.

The 33rd minute strike by Hayles came after he had made a return to serious training just a week earlier. His first competitive game was a reserves match last week where he played for 60 minutes before being substituted.

Whitmore on Target
October 20, 2004

Reggae Boyz captain Theodore Whitmore has come in for high praise after scoring his first goals for English League One side Tranmere Rovers to give them a 3-1 win over Huddersfield on Tuesday night.

Jason McAteer and Iain Hume combined to set up Whitmore for his opener in the 15th minute, a right-footed blast into the top right hand corner of the goal that gave the Huddersfield custodian little chance.

Whitmore's second goal came in the 61st minute and broke the 1-1 deadlock in the game, as he collected Ryan Taylor's pass from the left flank to drill the ball into the top left hand corner of the goal.

"When I heard he had scored for Jamaica, I was thinking about this game coming up and playing three in midfield, one with freedom and he was ideal for the role."

Whitmore could have finished with a hat-trick but was denied in the 65th minute when the Huddersfield goalie was forced into a superb save to keep the Jamaican off the score-sheet again.

"He's very good on the ball and away from home he will settle things down every now and then," Little pointed out.

Jamaica tie Panama in Panama
October 10, 2004

Jamaica's Reggae Boyz and Panama played to a tense 1-1 draw in their CONCACAF Group A World Cup qualifier at the Rommel Fernandez Stadium in Panama City last night.

Panama took a deserved lead through striker Roberto Brown in the 22nd minute. It was Brown's third goal against Jamaica in as many games. 

Theodore Whitmore equalised for the Reggae Boyz in the 74th minute and he should have scored the winner in the dying minutes but kicked straight to the Panamanian goalkeeper after Ricardo Fuller, dribbling down the left, had opened up the defence. The result means that with two rounds remaining, both teams move
 to five points and remain in contention for a place in the final phase of the World Cup qualifiers slated for next year.

Jason Euell gets FIFA clearance
October 13, 2004

In a dramatic but somewhat mysterious change of tack, Charlton Athletic striker Jason Euell was yesterday given the "all clear" to play for Jamaica by FIFA's players' status committee.

Euell's and the Jamaica Football Federation's (JFF's) application for the ex-England Under-21 representative to change association teams was controversially denied last week by the FIFA, claiming that when Euell represented England he was not yet a Jamaican citizen.

That ruling came even though the FIFA claimed that "we have taken due note of the fact that... Euell is currently in the process of obtaining the Jamaican passport, which he is eligible to apply for on the basis of his descent".

Euell's father and grandfather are Jamaicans by birth, and based on Jamaican law, is a Jamaican citizen since birth, by descent.

"I'm very happy," Euell, 27, said on the Charlton Athletic website yesterday. "It's taken a long time, but it's great news. To be honest, I'd still like to see it in writing because it's been so complicated, but it looks like everything will be worthwhile."

The JFF received a faxed letter yesterday confirming the clearance. And yesterday the FIFA claimed that "new evidence" provided by the JFF accounted for the change of decision.

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Home Based Boyz impress against Guatemala
October 09, 2004

Jamaica's home-based Reggae Boyz put up an amazing display of character and guts when they clawed their way from two goals down with two minutes to play in their friendly international against Guatemala in Fort Lauderdale last Saturday.

Two well-taken goals in the dying moments by Harbour View's midfield maestro, Jermaine Hue, enabled the surprise draw. Brazilian coach Sebastiao Lazaroni and technical director Carl Brown were both impressed by the team's effort, especially that of six Under-20 players.

Guatemala, who currently lead their CONCACAF World Cup Group B qualifying series, started the game with a second-rate team but made sweeping half-time changes, bringing on six of their seasoned World Cup campaigners as 10-man Jamaica looked threatening.

Fuller has card rescinded
October 09, 2004

ZURICH, Switzerland (CMC) -FIFA, football's world governing body, is at odds with the English Football Association over the rescinding of yellow and red cards.

The FA's new disciplinary code allows match officials to change their decision within 48 hours of a match.

But the world governing body says referees cannot change decisions after a match, except for mistaken identities.

"It is clear in the laws of the game that a referee cannot take back a decision once he has restarted the game," FIFA spokesman Markus Siegler said.

Chelsea's Didier Drogba and Portsmouth's Ricardo Fuller of Jamaica have had cautions revoked by referees this season, after they were originally booked for diving.

The prolific Jamaican striker will be in action for the Reggae Boyz today against Panama, and he also took part in the team's preparation camp in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, this week.

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