THE 1982 D Cup FINAL MATCH pit first time Finalist Titchfield School vs. many times  champions Cornwall College
The Don Davis –coached Titchfield School  would meet the Steve Bucknor-coached Cornwall College playing on home-ground and seeking their first lien on the Cup in 16 years. The entire Montego Bay was in a frenzy as the exploits of Kingsley Chin rest heavily on the minds of the spectators and supporters of Cornwall College.
For the Da Costa Cup Final, the Titchfield team overnighted at the Sea Wind Hotel in Montego Bay. The Hotel staff asked me why I bothered to bring the team to Montego Bay. It was already a done deal. The club Disco Inferno was booked in advance for the post-victory celebration by Cornwall College. Titchfield team was feted at the Golden Grotto Cave  Night club on the eve of  the big match and against my wishes, the players  were told that they could enjoy the pool in the morning. There were now several ‘technical directors’ of the Titchfield team. Bunghi  Chin however remained in his ‘hands-off’ mode.   Resources  suddenly started to pour in to a team that lacked proper equipment or nutritional support with the local politician HP declaring that Titchfield should “take their own water”.
At the Final the chairman of the school board, who I met for the first time when taken on the Port Antonio ‘social circuit’,  was present and insisted that he give the team a final changing room “pep-talk”. I refused to have the players bombarded with ‘more talk’ from persons neither they nor I had never ever seen at a match. The players asked that I facilitate the chair. I duly obliged.

With a full house at Jarrett Park and eyes and ears of the Nation tuned in to the D Cup FINAL, the game began with a heavily marked Kingsley Chin starting the game as a withdrawn striker. The Cornwall college  players went looking for Chin who lined up  behind our target-man  Penny head Nelson. In the 10th minute and against the run of play, a ball was handled by a Cornwall attacker in the Titchfield goal area bringing all players to a stand-still. But on not hearing the referee’s whistle, the nearest Cornwall striker smashed the handled ball into the net. Before the referee could re-act , a tremendous roar of GOAALL!!! was bellowed out from the crowd and the referee dared not revoke the dubious goal. Cornwall players raced up and down the field while Titchfield players stood in shock and awe at the blatant misjudgment of the referee. This exact cruel scenario would be replayed in the 2011 Final with Ruseas and Lennon.

It was reported that Radio commentator Ed Barnes was   verbally and physically abused for reporting the handled ball and openly disputed the goal. The Titchfield attacks were stymied by the linemen and their persistent ‘offside’ flags. Fowlie was dived on and fouled in his every possession of the ball with the referee on rare occasions reprimanding the Cornwall players for their fouling tactics. I recall Fowlie coming to the sidelines to ask: What should I do now coach?...In retrospect, I probably should have just said, “Just stay the left wing which would perhaps have given Penny-head a bit more room to work from  the middle”. Cornwall went on to win by that ‘disputed goal’ and denied Eastern Jamaica its first hold on the Da Costa Cup.  There were much tears shed in the Titchfield dressing room after the match. The spectators knew and the players felt as though they were ‘ROBBED’.
With all the furor caused by Titchfield’s historic match played at Jarrett Park, the decision to permanently fix the Final at Jarrett Park never went down well within my ‘sense of justice’.  The attitude of the governing body (ISSA) up to the time of this writing,  to this systemic base  of ‘injustice’ along with the interference from  “vocal” sectors of Port Antonio compounded by the frustration of Mr. Chin’s ideas which were often expressed and ultimately interpreted as ‘promises’ led to my absolute disgruntlement with the affairs at the school. I was asked by all and sundry “if I could get the team to the Final again??
 No one really seemed interested in how to win ‘the whole damn thing’. It was as if there was some underlying ‘fear’ about what complete success at da Costa Cup would mean for the school and town respectively. That there were/are many who simply “parasite” off  the school  for personal ego-driven motives, without ever hoping  for Titchfield’s sports to enjoy national success but instead more concerned with  any gains/loss of their economic, political and/or personal ‘hold’ on the school.
            I decided that after three seasons at Titchfield school and having to fight against ‘home town spectators’, which was becoming over whelming, I decided to relieve myself of the distress and hand the team over to the administration. Leaving Jamaica at a relatively early age, I never really experienced or knew much about ‘bad-mind’ growing up in Brooklyn, USA…till I get to the small-town of  Port Antonio.
I wrote my letter of resignation and handed it to a somewhat surprised but somber Bunghi Chin. From all indications the letter was not recorded at the Ministry of Education while Area boy and GC Foster graduate Leon Frazier was recruited as the ‘town’s coach’ to bring the da Costa Cup to Titchfield. 

1983-1984: The Leon Frazier Years.

I returned  to my community of HARBOUR VIEW with three years experience in the  daCosta Cup competition and eyed the possibility of coaching at another school…perhaps in the Manning cup.  My first three years back in Jamaica were well spent in Portland.  The lush vegetation and clean fresh environment stimulated much creative thought that manifested under the Conscious Movement Publication banner of  my first  local self published volume of Black Poetry to compliment Black Philosophy and Poetry and Black Poetry Volume 1, which were published while living in USA. This break from football was an opportunity to explore my writing and traveling to experience the other sides and places of Jamaica.
Frazier inherited an experienced and rounded squad of players from the Final led by young veterans ‘Bougie’ Newman, Anthony Nelson,  et al. There were enough quality replacements to sustain Titchfield’s drive to the top of schoolboy foot ball. The 1983 team failed dismally to reach the heights set by the 1981 and 1982 teams. The following season 1984 turned out the first ‘low point’ of football at Titchfield when the team was humiliated and destroyed 6-0  by the “new boys” on the western ‘bloc’ ,  Ruseas Comprehensive high from Hanover.
At the end of disastrous ’84 season, the players led a campaign I think spearheaded by Nelson insisting to the Principal that Don D be brought back into the school to re-establish the respect, discipline and order that the school’s success had come to know.
By March 1985 negotiations were re-opened with principal and the Bunghi Chin / Don D regime would continue its relentless march towards  the Da Costa Cup and by April 1985 I was moving my furniture in a north easterly direction, this time returning to Titchfield with soon-to-be wife,  singer Joy Whyte and step-daughter Naz.