By Jenny Horrocks
BBC Sport
The Gambia won the African Under-17 Championship in Algeria
The president of the Gambia FA, Seedy Kinteh, has admitted some players who helped win the African Under-17 Championship have failed age tests.
A total of 51 Gambian youngsters underwent MRI scans in Senegal to help determine their ages ahead of the upcoming Under-17 World Cup in Nigeria.
"Very few of the players failed the test," Kinteh insisted.
When asked if any of those who had failed the test had played at the African Under-17 Championship in Algeria he replied: "Yes, I'd need to check, but it can't be more than two or three."
Following the tests a squad of 28 players was named for a training camp that begins in the UK on Friday.
Football's world governing body, Fifa, has advised teams to be prepared for random age-tests at the Under-17 World Cup.
Hosts Nigeria have also carried out the scans on their squad and the football association president Sani Lulu says they are using the scans to help guide them on the make-up of their squad for next month's tournament.
Thursday 24 September 2009
Rantings of an Angry Despot – Part Two
By Baba Galleh Jallow
Some of you so-called journalists and critics think that you can open your mouths in my own personal country and try to criticize me. You think that you can come here and try to talk about so-called human right or so-called rule of law. What do you mean human right? What do you mean rule of law? Have you ever seen any so–called law trying to rule? You must be crazy if you think so and I will not let that happen in my country.
You think that you can open your big mouths and say Jumus does not respect human right or rule of so-called law. If you think so then you must be very stupid and you have your mouths in the wrong places. Because I am going to warn you – anybody that tries to talk about human right or try to bring disorder or tell people to question my power and authority – I tell you that I will kill you till you are dead. You say you are so-called human right. Well, if you are human right you should stuff your human right in your dirty pocket and keep your mouth shut. Because I will not tolerate anyone coming here and trying to be human right or so-called law of rule.
The other day I showed my compassion and forgave some criminals who were already found guilty of crime. Those criminals tried to tell me what to say or what not to say in my own personal country. For that reason they were found guilty of treason and sedition and sent to prison. And because some people fell on their knees and begged me, and because I was a man of compassion, I forgave them and they were free to go home. Then what did some of you big mouths do? You opened your big mouths and you said Jumus is afraid that’s why he released those people. If I was afraid how could I not deal with them because they were already in prison? How can I be afraid of a small bunch of criminals?
You think that you have a right to open your big mouths and say anything about me because you think I am afraid of those stupid so-called human right organizations or whatever they call themselves. If they think they are human right why don’t they come here and face me and try to tell me that nonsense? If they think they are human right who made them human right? They just get up one day and they say they are human right human right my foot. What human right? Haa? If they are human right they should stay in their own countries and make their stupid noises there. I do not need any so-called human right in my country. In fact, from now on – and I mean from this very moment – I will personally kill anyone found listening to those so-called human right organizations or even thinking of them. From now on all those so-called human right organizations are banned in this country. I forbid any of them to look at my country, talk about my country, or even think about my country, not to say write about my country. If they think they are human right they should go to their own countries and talk about their nonsense human right. And I want to warn all people in my country. Anyone caught even thinking about human right will be killed immediately. If you don’t like it you can all go to hell. And all of you so called human right activists or activities or whatever you call yourself can go to hell.
Sometimes I listen to the radio and I hear some of you so-called journalists or human right activists trying to tell me what I can or cannot do in my own personal country. You go to the West and hide behind the radio or so-called computer and think that you can cause disorder in my own personal country. You think that you can hide out there in the bush and try to tell my own personal people what they should think or what they should feel. If you think you are brave why not come here and face me and try to tell me your nonsense. Ballayy Ballayy Ballayy, if you do that you will know who I am. I will make sure that all of you are dead within one second. Even within one quarter of a second. So if you think you are brave come and face Jumus. You will then know who Jumus is. Ballayy Ballayy Ballayy.
Some of you so-called journalists and critics think that you can open your mouths in my own personal country and try to criticize me. You think that you can come here and try to talk about so-called human right or so-called rule of law. What do you mean human right? What do you mean rule of law? Have you ever seen any so–called law trying to rule? You must be crazy if you think so and I will not let that happen in my country.
You think that you can open your big mouths and say Jumus does not respect human right or rule of so-called law. If you think so then you must be very stupid and you have your mouths in the wrong places. Because I am going to warn you – anybody that tries to talk about human right or try to bring disorder or tell people to question my power and authority – I tell you that I will kill you till you are dead. You say you are so-called human right. Well, if you are human right you should stuff your human right in your dirty pocket and keep your mouth shut. Because I will not tolerate anyone coming here and trying to be human right or so-called law of rule.
The other day I showed my compassion and forgave some criminals who were already found guilty of crime. Those criminals tried to tell me what to say or what not to say in my own personal country. For that reason they were found guilty of treason and sedition and sent to prison. And because some people fell on their knees and begged me, and because I was a man of compassion, I forgave them and they were free to go home. Then what did some of you big mouths do? You opened your big mouths and you said Jumus is afraid that’s why he released those people. If I was afraid how could I not deal with them because they were already in prison? How can I be afraid of a small bunch of criminals?
You think that you have a right to open your big mouths and say anything about me because you think I am afraid of those stupid so-called human right organizations or whatever they call themselves. If they think they are human right why don’t they come here and face me and try to tell me that nonsense? If they think they are human right who made them human right? They just get up one day and they say they are human right human right my foot. What human right? Haa? If they are human right they should stay in their own countries and make their stupid noises there. I do not need any so-called human right in my country. In fact, from now on – and I mean from this very moment – I will personally kill anyone found listening to those so-called human right organizations or even thinking of them. From now on all those so-called human right organizations are banned in this country. I forbid any of them to look at my country, talk about my country, or even think about my country, not to say write about my country. If they think they are human right they should go to their own countries and talk about their nonsense human right. And I want to warn all people in my country. Anyone caught even thinking about human right will be killed immediately. If you don’t like it you can all go to hell. And all of you so called human right activists or activities or whatever you call yourself can go to hell.
Sometimes I listen to the radio and I hear some of you so-called journalists or human right activists trying to tell me what I can or cannot do in my own personal country. You go to the West and hide behind the radio or so-called computer and think that you can cause disorder in my own personal country. You think that you can hide out there in the bush and try to tell my own personal people what they should think or what they should feel. If you think you are brave why not come here and face me and try to tell me your nonsense. Ballayy Ballayy Ballayy, if you do that you will know who I am. I will make sure that all of you are dead within one second. Even within one quarter of a second. So if you think you are brave come and face Jumus. You will then know who Jumus is. Ballayy Ballayy Ballayy.
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