The Football Association (FA) have confirmed today (November 5th) that they have allowed a £135,000 payment owed by their Jamaican counterparts to be deferred until 2010.
The two parties got together on Tuesday to thrash out a solution in relation to the debt, which is for tickets from a friendly between England and Jamaica in June 2006.
Some observers had feared that the matter could threaten England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup as Jamaican Football Federation (JFF) president Horace Burrell is a close ally of influential Fifa vice-president Jack Warner.
Burrell had claimed last month the FA executive Simon Jordan agreed to write off the debt in April in exchange for a credit towards a youth training centre in Jamaica.
The FA refuted that suggestion and a full-blown row looked to be on the cards when they reported the JFF to Fifa, but the money will now be transferred after the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
The FA released a statement which read: "The JFF acknowledge the outstanding debt of approximately £135,000 to The FA, arising from the friendly match played in England in June 2006.
"Having heard about all the circumstances, The FA agreed to defer consideration of the debt until after the 2010 World Cup."
England won the friendly match 6-0 and then-Liverpool striker Peter Crouch scored a hat-trick.
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