Nigel Si­mon

San Juan Jabloteh has lodged a protest with the Caribbean Foot­ball Union over bmo­bile Joe Pub­lic's use of de­fend­er Radan­fah Abu Bakr in Wednes­day's Club Cham­pi­ons Cup en­counter at the Mar­vin Lee Sta­di­um, Ma­coya. This was con­firmed by the club's chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer, Aza­ad Mo­hammed-Khan yes­ter­day. On Wednes­day night, the CFU Club Cham­pi­ons Cup Fi­nal Round clash be­tween the two Dig­i­cel Pro League ri­vals, kicked off un­der a cloud off con­tro­ver­sy as Jabloteh coach Ter­ry Fen­wick made a com­plaint to the match com­mis­sion­er Nor­ris Fer­gu­son that Abu Bakr was il­leg­i­ble for the match hav­ing picked up a red card in his team's fi­nal sec­ond round match against Sys­tem 3 of St Vin­cent and The Grenadines last month.

Mo­hammed-Khan said his team has sent a for­mal protest let­ter to the CFU and point­ed to the tour­na­ment rules which said play­ers or team of­fi­cials sus­pend­ed shall serve their sus­pen­sion dur­ing the fol­low­ing match of the CFU Club Cham­pi­ons Cup, be it in the cur­rent edi­tion or any fu­ture edi­tion of the tour­na­ment or any tour­na­ment which may, by virtue of its pur­pose, sub­sti­tute the CFU Cham­pi­ons Cup. How­ev­er, Derek King, coach of Joe Pub­lic said his team was giv­en the green light at the CFU tech­ni­cal meet­ing on Tues­day for Abu Bakr to play in the match. "We asked about Radan­fah's avail­abil­i­ty and was told that all the sus­pen­sions were wiped clean from the pre­vi­ous round," said King. Iron­i­cal­ly, Abu Bakr's 50th minute goal earned Joe Pub­lic a 1-0 win in the match.