The People’s National Movement (PNM) made a significant step towards its bid to replace the People’s Partnership government in 2015 by getting its executive party in place this weekend. And you know it is business as usual when you see a dodgy salesman holding the purse strings. Port of Spain …
Read More »2006 W/Cup players threaten to bankrupt TTFA
The following is a press release from the 2006 World Cup players who are owed bonus payments by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA): This is to announce that we have instructed our legal team to execute a final 14 day Demand for Payment against the TTFA. This may come as a …
Read More »World Cup memory lane with Fazeer, Kelvin and Nakhid
What does the FIFA World Cup mean to you? Wired868 asked some of our more illustrious football readers to share their memories of the greatest single sporting event on the planet. And we would like you to do the same. There are three basic questions and, each week, we will take …
Read More »World Cup Memory Lane with Shaka, Fazeer and Kelvin
What does the FIFA World Cup mean to you? Wired868 asked some of our more illustrious football readers to share their memories of the greatest single sporting event on the planet. And we would like you to do the same. There are three basic questions and, each week, we will take …
Read More »Bonus-gate (Pt 1): How 13 W/Cup 2006 players challenged the TTFF… and won
Wired868, with the help of five people closely involved with the case in the playing, administrative and legal camps, will tell the story of the 2006 World Cup bonus dispute. This is Part One: Last Thursday, the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) wired an undisclosed figure into an account …
Read More »Toasting Scotland the Brave
Technically competent, strong as an ox, a deft dribbler and a fierce striker of the ball with either foot, Jason Scotland was well worth whatever trouble he may have given the coach when he arrived in Dundee. Fortunate to be signed by Dundee United after scoring twice in a rare …
Read More »The remarkable Jason Scotland
Can you recall a day in your life that you wish you could take back? Jason “Scotty” Scotland, a former trainee electrician from a poor neighbourhood in Morvant, Trinidad, does. His mother, Ann, now lives in a comfortable and sizeable two-storey home in Barataria. He drives a Range Rover. This July, …
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