“[…] Domestic Swiss courts would have not offered Mr Wallace or the TTFA any relief either. Fifa is a private association under Swiss law. Swiss law is very clear in that private associations are free to make their own rules as they see fit, and the Fifa Statutes definitively exclude …
Read More »What ‘embarrassment’?! TTOC president suggests how T&T’s high court and appellate court validated Wallace
“[…] If you look at the high court judgment of Madame Justice Carol Gobin and then the court of appeal, in its judgment in paragraphs 37 and 39; they are essentially saying the same thing… “So the high court and the court of appeal appeared to have validated William Wallace …
Read More »Dr Gloudon: TTFA-Fifa: an inconvenient truth that won’t be deciphered with one-dimensional thinking
“[…] The TTFA has undoubtedly been in a mess for a long time; and so has Fifa. Indeed, we may have learned how to be corrupt in football from Fifa. No one in a local or regional body can carry on sustained defrauding of Fifa without the assistance of someone …
Read More »TTFA members ‘humbly apologise’ to Fifa and Hadad, agree to accept ‘normalisation’
“[…] Based on the meeting, the TTFA must advise that its members have agreed to abide with the conditions of the normalisation committee and will co-operate fully to ensure that the mandate of the committee is realised. “In addition, let me take this opportunity to humbly apologise to you, the …
Read More »Dear editor: There was nothing ‘pyrrhic’ about Wallace and the UTTFA’s fight, history will smile on them
“[…] The UTTFA and supporters of its stand against the mighty Fifa might also be encouraged by the words of a martyr for the cause of Poland’s Solidarity Workers in the 1980s. “Before he was brutally murdered on 19 October 1984, Father ‘Pop’ (Jerzy Popiełuszko) reportedly urged embattled workers with …
Read More »TTFA members cut Wallace adrift; 94% vote to accept normalisation and abandon Fifa litigation’
There will be no Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) appeal against Fifa at the privy council. This morning, the general membership finally had its say; and it meant the last rites for the William Wallace-led administration. Trinidad and Tobago Football Referees Association (TTFRA) vice-president Osmond Downer moved the decisive …
Read More »‘We shall not stand in your way’ Wallace and VPs skip TTFA EGM—but have not resigned
“[…] We remain convinced that the right to make our case, to let our voices be heard, is a basic human right. “[…] We are acutely aware that tomorrow is promised to no one of us and that it is the membership’s right to decide on the tomorrow they desire …
Read More »Fifa ‘welcomes’ T&T courts decision; Downer: TTFA in ‘constitutional limbo’
Fifa president Gianni Infantino and general secretary Fatma Samoura have spent the past six months saying that the governing football body has ‘no intention to recognise [the Trinidad and Tobago] courts’. It is a position that changed yesterday evening with the ruling of the court of appeal, which declared that …
Read More »‘A wasted trial’; how Gobin and Wallace were undone by court of appeal—as Fifa prevailed
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) versus the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (Fifa) was billed as the most important case in local sport history, at the opening whistle. By the time the dust had cleared, though, Justice of Appeal Nolan Bereaux described the exercise as ‘a wasted trial’ …
Read More »Fifa triumphs! Court of appeal orders TTFA to pay legal costs as Gobin’s rulings set aside
In roughly four minutes, Chief Justice Ivor Archie brought Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president William Wallace’s legal jaunt to a crashing halt, as the court of appeal ruled in favour of Fifa today, and set aside high court Judge Carol Gobin’s verdicts on 13 August and 13 October. …
Read More »Dear Wallace: ‘Why should we keep you as president?’ 19 questions from TTFA board member
“[…] Please explain why the TTFA membership should retain you as president when you admitted freely in the press that you signed multi-million dollar contracts in excess of amounts approved by the board of directors; and you also admitted to signing contracts that you specifically hid from the TTFA Board …
Read More »TTSL board ask Look Loy to return, interim president Rigues disagrees—but KLL declines
Five from six Trinidad and Tobago Super League (TTSL) Board members have urged president Keith Look Loy to rethink his resignation—at least for the short term. However, the lone dissenting voice came from interim president Jameson Rigues, who was automatically promoted to the top job when Look Loy announced his …
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