Alfred Henry ... coach of Jamaica College. - File

Jamaica College's (JC) Manning Cup football coach Alfred Henry could face a lengthy suspension from the game when the Inter-secondary School Sports Association's (ISSA) disciplinary committee meets in a matter of days.

Henry might find himself in trouble due to comments he allegedly made at the end of his team's ISSA/Pepsi/Digicel Second-round match against Wolmer's, which they lost 2-3 and in the process ending their chance of advancing to the semi-finals of the competition.

Henry stated at the end of the game in question that the administrators (ISSA) can not administrate and that the referees cannot referee; upset that his team had to play five games in a 13-day span. Henry further described the organisers and referees as incompetent and further labelled the referees as "nincompoops".

Disciplinary committee

George Forbes, competition's director of ISSA, advised The Gleaner that the end of the matter has not yet been seen. "He has to face the disciplinary committee for his comments, so we are going to convene a disciplinary meeting," Forbes said. "He has to substantiate his comments, so it is not the end of the matter where JC is concerned. Every match this coach has to blame somebody," he added.

"The committee can decide that he cannot coach any schoolboy football for a period of time," Forbes said. "There are several options that are open to the disciplinary committee. So people can talk and say what they want to say, but there is a code of ethics that is guided by ISSA," he added.

In spite of the concerns about the running of the competition from various quarters, Forbes is satisfied with the competition's progress.

"Despite the rumblings from certain schools, we are quite satisfied with what we have done," Forbes said. "There are certain schools who think they should have a monopoly as to where the matches are played but we are satisfied with the venues chosen given the economic situations. There is also talk about the frequency of the matches. We have abided by the FIFA rule, which says 48 hours between matches is sufficient, we would have wanted 72 hours but there are certain cases where we had to play the matches within 48 hours," he concluded.

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