By Paul A. Reid, Staff Reporter

WESTERN BUREAU:

A FOOTBALL double-header featuring defending Wray and Nephew National Premier League (NPL) champions Tivoli Gardens and three western NPL clubs has been planned for this Sunday at Jarrett Park to help raise funds to defray burial costs for two of the five men who were killed in a motor vehicle accident last Sunday morning.

The games are being put on by the St James Football Association (St JFA) and the Jarrett Park Management Committee (JPMC) to help raise funds for the burial costs of former national midfielder Winston 'Twinny Bug' Anglin and Donald 'Boogooroogoo' Findlayson who represented Seba United in the NPL.

Village United and Invaders, two of the four western clubs that Anglin represented, will meet in the first game set to start at 4:30 p.m., weather permitting, followed by Wadadah, to which he was more closely attached, to having led them to their first NPL title, against Tivoli.

Anglin, Findlayson, Oneil 'Scava' Eccleston, Allan 'Malo' Dexter and Keith Gentles, all members of the Hanover Masters League team, were killed when the car in which they were travelling after watching Jamaica lose to Panama in a CONCACAF World Cup qualifying game at the National Stadium, crashed into a rock and overturned along Queen's Highway in St. Ann, near the Trelawny border.

Meanwhile, general secretary of the St JFA, Lennox Wallace, told The Gleaner the association was trying to assist the families of Anglin, Findlayson and Eccleston to get the post-mortem examination completed on the men's bodies.

Up to yesterday, autopsies had only been done on the bodies of Dexter and Gentles, and Wallace said the families were concerned with the approach of Hurricane Ivan to get the bodies into a funeral parlour in Montego Bay.

Wallace also said he had approached the president of Wadadah FC, Gene Grey, to retire the No. 11 that was favoured by Anglin as a mark of respect to the former midfielder.

Funeral dates have been set for three of the men. Dexter is to be buried on Friday, September 17, Gentles the next day and Eccleston on Sunday, September 19.

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