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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=TopStory>No finger-pointing</SPAN>
<SPAN class=Subheadline>Reggae Boy Davis calls for unity in Jamaica's football</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>Dania Bogle, Observer staff reporter
Friday, October 13, 2006
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</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Reggae Boy Fabian Davis (left) speaks at yesterday's JISA/Bigga/Locker Room Sports prep schools' football launch. Also in the photo are (from second left) JISA committee member Wayne Robinson, Locker Room Sports general manager David Shirley and JISA Sports Committee Chairman Cathy Williams. (Photo: Naphtali Junior)</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>Reggae Boy Fabian Davis has called for Jamaicans to stop pointing fingers and come together in support of the country's senior football team, the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) and the national football programme in general.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The Tivoli Gardens captain was speaking in light of negative reactions to the national team following recent poor performances, and criticism of the Crenston Boxhill-led administration.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"There is no time to point fingers and single out any individual," Davis said. "We just need to be in line and unite and try and make things get back to where it was."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Davis would not entertain the argument that the criticism of the JFF was a political move aimed at trying to oust reigning Boxhill from leadership of local football's governing body.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"Listen," he said. "At times some organisations have a bad run and it's for us to support. Support the JFF, the president, the coaches and the players. That's what we should do instead of carrying down the JFF, or carrying down the president or the coaches or the players and for us to respect what we've been doing over the years."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Davis told the Observer that the Jamaica team was already on the right path to improvement, singling out their recent 2-1 win over Canada at the National Stadium last Sunday.
"On our last game against Canada, you can see where things are getting there slowly," he said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"We'll continue to work hard; we'll continue to take it one day at a time and it's for us to pull together."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Davis said it was essential that the players work together as a team, with the aim of ironing out problems before they escalate.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"It's really for us to try to iron out the small things before they get big and for us to really unite and to fight against this cause right now, which is us being in this hole," Davis said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"We need to just pull ourselves out and be on top again and it's going to take work. There is a lot of work to be done."
Davis told the Observer the players would now be
striving to build on last Sunday's victory.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"There is no turning back right now. Our backs are against the wall. The nation needs results, so that's what we're all about right now.
<SPAN class=Subheadline>Reggae Boy Davis calls for unity in Jamaica's football</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>Dania Bogle, Observer staff reporter
Friday, October 13, 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>Reggae Boy Fabian Davis (left) speaks at yesterday's JISA/Bigga/Locker Room Sports prep schools' football launch. Also in the photo are (from second left) JISA committee member Wayne Robinson, Locker Room Sports general manager David Shirley and JISA Sports Committee Chairman Cathy Williams. (Photo: Naphtali Junior)</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>Reggae Boy Fabian Davis has called for Jamaicans to stop pointing fingers and come together in support of the country's senior football team, the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) and the national football programme in general.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The Tivoli Gardens captain was speaking in light of negative reactions to the national team following recent poor performances, and criticism of the Crenston Boxhill-led administration.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"There is no time to point fingers and single out any individual," Davis said. "We just need to be in line and unite and try and make things get back to where it was."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Davis would not entertain the argument that the criticism of the JFF was a political move aimed at trying to oust reigning Boxhill from leadership of local football's governing body.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"Listen," he said. "At times some organisations have a bad run and it's for us to support. Support the JFF, the president, the coaches and the players. That's what we should do instead of carrying down the JFF, or carrying down the president or the coaches or the players and for us to respect what we've been doing over the years."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Davis told the Observer that the Jamaica team was already on the right path to improvement, singling out their recent 2-1 win over Canada at the National Stadium last Sunday."On our last game against Canada, you can see where things are getting there slowly," he said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"We'll continue to work hard; we'll continue to take it one day at a time and it's for us to pull together."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Davis said it was essential that the players work together as a team, with the aim of ironing out problems before they escalate.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"It's really for us to try to iron out the small things before they get big and for us to really unite and to fight against this cause right now, which is us being in this hole," Davis said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"We need to just pull ourselves out and be on top again and it's going to take work. There is a lot of work to be done."
Davis told the Observer the players would now be
striving to build on last Sunday's victory.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"There is no turning back right now. Our backs are against the wall. The nation needs results, so that's what we're all about right now.