Kwesi Mugisa, Staff Reporter
Constant Spring's Sheldon Green (right) locks his legs around the left foot of Boys' Town's Ricardo White, while making a foul tackle during the Kingston and St. Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) Western Union-sponsored Jackie Bell KO semi-finals at the National Stadium. Boys' Town won 1-0. - IAN ALLEN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
A 70th minute penalty by captain Fitzroy Anglin gave the Boys' Town Red Brigade much sought after retribution in a 1-0 victory over Constant Spring yesterday at the National Stadium and catapulted them to a place in the final of the Western Union Jackie Bell Knockout competition.
Their opponents in the final will be Waterhouse, which defeated Harbour View 1-0 courtesy of a first-minute goal by Roberto Fletcher in the night's second semi-final.
Fletcher played a one-two with Oneil Robinson and somehow got around Gregory Simpson and fired a torrid shot from just inside the box that hit the palm of goalkeeper Ryan Thompson's hand before rattling into the back of the net.
The result went just the opposite of their encounter four days earlier at the Collie Smith Drive sports ground when Constant Spring handed them their first home loss of the season and also booted them out of the Red Stripe Champions Cup KO with a penalty shoot-out loss. The teams had played to a 0-0 finish then, just like their two previous premier league matches.
This time it would be Boys' Town who would deliver the knockout blow to eliminate Constant Spring.
"I know that they were not the type of team that were going to come out there and lie down, I told my team that today they had to prove to me that were better than Constant Spring," remarked Boys' Town Technical Director Andrew Price.
"I hope that this is just a stepping stone for round three of the Premier League and the Jackie Bell finals which we really want to win and just the fact that we are in means that we have a chance. Whoever we play we give them a stern test," he promised ahead of the night's second semi-final between the top two premier league clubs, Harbour View and Waterhouse.
For Constant Spring technical director Maurice 'Danny' Lyn, the loss was a bitter disappointment.
"Everything went wrong. The players did not do what we told them to, they played a lot of long balls and they were not supposed to do that, so we lost control of the game," Lyn lamented.
"The fact is that we did not deserve to win today, we did not show up for the game and the truth is that we played very poorly."
It seemed that George Vernal had given Boys' Town the all-important go-ahead goal in the 69th minute when he fired into the back of the net from a deflected corner kick. However, the referee called back the play, ruling that the deflection was in fact a handball. This gave Anglin the opportunity to step up and comfortably slot home his sixth penalty of the season. The final of the competition will be played on Sunday, February 12.
GOALSHEET
BOYS' TOWN 1
Fitzroy Anglin 70th
CONSTANT SPRING 0
WATERHOUSE 1
Roberto Fletcher 1st
HARBOUR VIEW 0
