Archive for October 10th, 2006

Ince Ban – Speculation Ended

Neil @ 8:53 pm Tuesday 10 October 2006

The Evening Mail has ended the speculation about Clayton Ince’s International ban.

The press in Trinidad and Tobago had been reporting that the Walsall goalkeeper had picked up a 10 day ban, following his withdrawal from the squad for their two friendlies this week.

Walsall had been asked about his availability a week and a half ago, but had said that the player had been carrying a knock and was, therefore, unavailable. He then played in the Mansfield Town game.

His local Federation said that they accepted the fact that he was injured, but asked FIFA to impose the ban as a matter of course and the ten days were imposed from last Friday.

Ironically, Ince was unable to play in Friday night’s game at Chester anyway, because of the injury.

His deputy, Frenchman Bertrand Bossu, will, therefore, be making his home debut against Wycombe because of the ban. It is likely that Ince would have missed that game and the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy game against Swansea next week because of the injury anyway.