Fifa today filed an injunction in the Trinidad and Tobago High Court, which seeks to stop it from hearing any matter in relation to its normalisation committee and insists that the right forum for its dispute with the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) is the Court of Arbitration for Sport …
Read More »Meet the ‘Ice Cream Man’; Wired868 reviews Hadad’s tenure thus far as TTFA staff return to work
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) ostensibly got back to business today, as all eight staff members turned out for work at its headquarters in the Ato Boldon Stadium, Couva. If there was any excitement about returning to their place of employment—now under the management of normalisation committee chairman …
Read More »Wallace: We are trying to ‘rectify error’; TTFA president tries to explain secret Fenwick contract
Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president William Wallace admitted today that he legally bound the local football body to terms with Men’s National Senior Team head coach Terry Fenwick that were not agreed to by his board. Wallace, who is chairman of the TTFA’s Board of Directors, said he …
Read More »Fifa changes attorneys for TTFA case; Hamel-Smith SC replaces Denbow SC
Fifa president Gianni Infantino has made a substitution. It will be Christopher Hamel-Smith SC and not Dr Claude Denbow SC who will represent the world governing body in its case against the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) at the Port of Spain High Court. Fifa chief legal and compliance …
Read More »“His choice of passes was one of the best I’ve seen!” Remembering the ‘pass-master’ Sedley Joseph
“I never saw Sedley [Joseph] in the middle of a problem as a player, and as manager he was even better…” “Sometimes a player might make an accurate pass but it wasn’t the best one—he would always see the best pass…” “Captain Sedley was the epitome of the essential gentleman: …
Read More »Fenwick restarts national training with Griffith’s blessing; but Look Loy and Ferguson slam exercise
Terry Fenwick started his tenure as Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach at the Police Barracks in St James today, with his first training session since he was hired last December; and the first for any national team under Covid-19 regulations and following the appointment of normalisation …
Read More »How to start a revolution; rule number one: challenge everything!
I spent barely four days in Manama in 2005, in the lead up to and immediate aftermath of Trinidad and Tobago’s historic second leg Fifa 2006 World Cup qualifying play off encounter with Bahrain on 15 November. Apart from an unforgettable football match and the searing heat, what I remember …
Read More »Rowley: Black lives movement relevant in T&T too, sets re-opening dates for churches, bars and cinemas
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said Trinidad and Tobago will be back to ‘80 percent of its functionality’ by 22 June, as the country gets back to business—having flattened the curve of Covid-19 infections. However, Rowley said the threat of racism remains a real concern in the wake of ‘black …
Read More »How Britain is losing the race: what Yorke, Hislop, Sancho and more faced in UK
This report was initially written by Lasana Liburd for the Trinidad Express newspaper and published there on 25 November 2004: It was not, as Birmingham City chairman David Sullivan pointed out, the ‘crime of the century’. The British Soccernet website claimed that the Blackburn Football Club, the site of the …
Read More »Feeling lucky? NLCB, malls, inter-island travel and public sector re-open; next: barbers, churches and bars
“For those of you who feel lucky… don’t crowd the vendors but try your luck!” Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley announced today that phase three of the reopening of the local economy will begin on Monday 1 June, six days earlier than initially expected, with a number of add-ons. The …
Read More »Don’t write us! Fifa snubs mediation request, Wallace still hopeful but makes fighting case
On Monday, attorney Matthew Gayle wrote to Fifa and requested mediation on behalf of his clients, Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president William Wallace and vice-presidents Clynt Taylor, Susan Joseph-Warrick and Sam Phillip, as an alternative to a High Court battle. The TTFA’s request, which had a deadline of …
Read More »Rowley: T&T media have interests to protect! PM pushes back on Venezuela narrative
Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley launched a scathing attack on the local media today, which he accused of trying to paint him and his government as ‘liars’ with regards to its narrative on the visit of Venezuela vice-president Delcy Rodríguez and her contingent in March. In today’s …
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