Howard Walker, Staff Reporter

Boys' Town versus Reno in Wray and Nephew National Premier League Football at Collie Smith Drive. The match was abandoned after gunshots were fired in the area forcing referees and players to dive for cover. - Ian Allen/Staff Photographer

Andrew Price, coach of Boys' Town, was livid last night after learning that his team's home ground was banned for two games by the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Competitions Committee.

"That doesn't rest well with me. I don't think that we had legal representative at a hearing in which people are going to pass judgement on an incident which took place," said Price, who is also a member JFF Technical Committee.

"We will be appealing the decision and want legal represen-tation because precedent has been set before with incidents of the same nature taking place and nobody has been found culpable of the situation," noted Price.

He continued: "We are not in agreement with what took place but it was an incident not within the football field, it was outside in the community."

Warring factions

On Wednesday, January 4, gunshots rang out in the community causing players to lie flat face down on the field at the famous Collie Smith Drive facility while taking evasive action.

Later, it was deemed that warring factions were to blame as the game was called off two minutes into the second half.

The committee also ruled the aborted game should be replayed at a neutral venue for the remaining forty-three (43) minutes.

The committee advised that spectators should be sensitised about the negative repercussions that could affect the club for any act that disrupts a game.

"Gunshots have been fired in the presence of the same persons on the committee at other games and the results was not similar," said Price.