Price vows to keep Bell/Ziadie at St George’s

St George’s College Manning Cup coach and former triple crown winner at the school, Andrew Price, has declared that the annual Bell/Ziadie football memorial, of which the 41st staging was launched yesterday at the Police Officers’ Club, will always be played at the North Street institution, as long as he is alive.

Event organiser, Clive ‘Busy’ Campbell, of Masters and Celebrities, highlighted the financial difficulties he has had in securing the venue over the years and, this year, the Sports Development Foundation (SDF) has stepped in to cover the cost of booking the event, but Campbell is still uncertain they can maintain hosting it at the school of the two former stalwarts, who passed away in 1986 while attending the World Cup in Mexico.

“So far, he (Alan Beckford - SDF general manager) is the only person who can say he has given us a donation towards the cost (of hosting the event). Two years ago, Lorna (Bell - Jackie’s widow) and myself used a credit card to pay for the use of the field,” he revealed.