LONDON (CMC):

England's Football Association are chasing down Jamaica's Football Federation over a near US $215,000 debt.

The outstanding debt is owed on tickets from a friendly international between the two nations two years ago in Manchester.

JFF boss Captain Horace Burrell contended that in April Simon Johnson, a senior executive of the FA, ratified a deal to allow the Jamaicans to write-off the debt and invest it in a youth training centre on the island.

But the FA has revealed that the agreement needed to be signed off by its board of management and this has not happened, and there has been no move to present the deal for ratification.

"This debt remains to be paid in full and we expect the JFF to repay it," an FA news release said.

"The JFF themselves have acknowledged this debt. We have been aware that the JFF have experienced financial difficulties since the game in 2006 and it would have been futile for us to pursue the debt aggressively.

"At no time did Simon Johnson make any promise that any training facility built in Jamaica would be funded with the outstanding debt.

No proposal submitted

"While we acknowledge that the subject was raised by the JFF and discussed, Johnson did make it clear that in any event, any proposals from the JFF for such a facility would need to be discussed and ratified by the FA board. No such proposal has been submitted to the board."

But Burrell said he had been given the clear understanding that the FA would approve the proposal at a meeting towards the end of the year and that it was only a matter of protocol.

"Simon never told us that this was ever going to be a problem," he told the British newspaper, The Guardian. "On the contrary ... to hear anything else at this stage is mind-boggling."

Jamaica lost the friendly international, when England beat them 6-0.