Jack Warner to bailout JFF

Regional football magnate Austin ‘Jack’ Warner has pledged to help bail out the cash-strapped Jamaican Football Federation (JFF).



Following a meeting with JFF president, Captain Horace Burrell and general secretary Horace Reid yesterday in Trinidad and Tobago, Warner said that it was important that CONCACAF and the Caribbean Football Union (CFU), football’s regional governing bodies, intervene in the crisis.



Earlier this month, the JFF was forced to divert funds from its March wage bill in order to pay over $850,000 to a bailiff as part of the 12,000 pounds sterling settlement ordered by a Central London County Court almost two years ago for outstanding fees due to the England-based NVA Management Limited.



Warner, who heads both CONCACAF and Caribbean Football Union, says the situation was a dire one and the meeting with the JFF was used to look at options which could help alleviate the crisis.