Marlon King sent home

Watford striker Marlon King has been thrown out of the Jamaica squad ahead of Saturday’s international against England.

According to Jamaican Football Federation president Crenston Boxhill, 26-year-old King was “rude and unapologetic” after breaking a squad curfew.

England face the Jamaicans at Old Trafford on Saturday in the last World Cup warm-up match for Sven-Goran Eriksson’s men, and the loss of King means the Caribbean side will be without one of their key men.

Charlton’s Jason Euell and Southend’s Jamal Campbell-Ryce were also told they would be banished from the squad, however they appealed and have been allowed to stay on.

Boxhill said on Jamaican radio, according to the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper: “There was more to it than just breaking curfew and coming late, Marlon King was rude, he was rude and unapologetic.

“In the discussion that the management team had with him, he was quite unapologetic, which was what really warranted him being expelled from the camp.”

No further details of King’s indiscretion have been revealed.

He has been replaced in Jamaica’s squad by Sheffield Wednesday striker Deon Burton.