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20 September 2002

After our LG Cup success in Vietnam, we travelled to England to play a couple of friendlies against the highly rated Reggae Boyz of Jamaica.

Unfortunately, we were beaten 3-0 in the first game. To be fair to our lads they worked hard, but were perhaps a little in awe of the Jamaicans. Nonetheless there were several good individual performances and we definitely raised our game.

In the second game, played at Molineux, we played out a 0-0 which was a moral victory for us in many ways.

Next it was back to Delhi to play the first in a double header against Uzbekistan.

Thanks to two lovely strikes from Baichung Bhutia we ran out 2-0 winners in the first game.

The second game ended on a sour note, however, as we went down 1-0, although I thought we were the better side overall.

However, this will not affect our preparations for the Asian Games, which will be starting on 27 September with a game against Bangladesh. That is followed by encounters with Turkmenistan on the 30 September and then China on 3 October.

Thank you for reading. Hopefully, I’ll have good news to report from Korea next time round!

Stephen