Livingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Ranaldo Biggs (left) of Mount Pleasant and Universidad O&M’s Reyvin de la Rosa battle for the ball during their Concacaf Caribbean Cup match at the National Stadium on September 30. Mount Pleasant won 2-0.
December 9, 2025 by Livingston Scott

Mt Pleasant aware of O&M improvement

MOUNT PEASANT Football Academy are well aware of how much Universidad O&M have improved since the teams met in the group stage of the Concacaf Caribbean Cup in September, said Mount Pleasant…
Professional Football Jamaica Ltd CEO Owen Hill.
December 9, 2025 by Livingston Scott

JPL helps MoBay, Treasure Beach to find homes

WITH THE restart of the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) a little under two weeks away, the Professional Football Jamaica Limited (PFJL) is working to ensure that Montego Bay United and Treasure Beach…
Reggae Boyz captain Andre Blake (left) leads his team out ahead of last Tuesday’s final Concacaf Group B World Cup Qualifying match at the National Stadium. Jamaica drew 0-0 with Curacao and failed to earn an automatic spot in the 2026 World Cup.
December 9, 2025 by Livingston Scott

Speid’s Boyz expected to breeze past New Caledonia in play-off opener

Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz and interim head coach Rudolph Speid will enter next year’s intercontinental play-offs as strong favourites to get past semi-final opponents New Caledonia, a group of islands…
Former Reggae Boyz Technical Director Rene Simoes, speaks to students Garvey Maceo High School in Clarendon.
December 9, 2025 by Livingston Scott

Simoes proposes innovative approach to coaching problem

Iconic former Reggae Boyz coach Rene Simoes, in a video on social media, offered his services to the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) with a proposal to establish a 'crisis cabinet', with…
Rudolph Speid ... interim head coach for Reggae Boyz.
December 9, 2025 by Livingston Scott

JFF moves to ‘maintain stability’

TOP local coach and football administrator Rudolph Speid will be the man in charge when Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz contest the intercontinental World Cup playoffs in March 2026. Effective December 15,…
New JFF interim head coach, Rudolph Speid.
December 9, 2025 by Livingston Scott

‘The world doesn’t work like that’

TECHNICAL COMMITTEE Chairman of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Rudolph Speid says everyone involved in the Reggae Boyz’ disastrous World Cup qualifying campaign should take some of the blame,…
Stewart
December 9, 2025 by Livingston Scott

‘There are a lot of questions’

REGGAE BOYZ coach Steve McClaren has been feeling the heat for the team’s underwhelming performances in the Concacaf World Cup Qualifiers. Former national assistant coach, Bradley Stewart, is one of…
Mount Pleasant Director of Football and assistant coach Davion Ferguson (left) and head coach Theodore Whitmore.
December 9, 2025 by Livingston Scott

Melissa be damned

WITH THE nation still recovering from devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa and the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) not resuming until December 7, Concacaf Caribbean Cup finalists Mount Pleasant will…
Lenworth Hyde
December 9, 2025 by Livingston Scott

Hyde’s call for schoolboy football cancellation faces opposition

AS ORGANISERS continue to grapple with the decision of when or if to restart the suspended 2025 schoolboy football season after the devastation caused by the passage of Hurricane Melissa, one highly…