I have chosen to publicly break my silence about the current impasse between United TTFA and FIFA. In my opinion, the atmosphere around our football reeks of toxicity. When Fifa appointed the normalisation committee, my first reaction was one of genuine surprise. I made that known to the president William …
Read More »Fifa deferral request denied, plus mysterious new TTFA affidavits add to High Court drama
Madame Justice Carol Gobin will proceed with Friday’s High Court case between Fifa and the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA), despite a late request by the former party for a deferral. The main issues for determination by the High Court on 9 October are: Whether the purported appointment of …
Read More »Fifa ‘ceases’ normalisation committee, threatens 2022 W/Cup spot in latest update
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) will be excluded from the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign—on top of the Concacaf 2021 Gold Cup tournament—if it does not meet the criteria set by Fifa for the lifting of its international suspension by 6pm on 18 December 2020. The apparent …
Read More »Fifa must pay TT$60k as ‘security for costs’ after successful TTFA application
Fifa will need to deposit TT$60,000 as ‘security for costs’ if it wants its appeal against High Court Judge Carol Gobin’s ruling to be heard on 19 October. Yesterday, Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president William Wallace and vice-presidents Clynt Taylor and Sam Phillip got more good news from …
Read More »Wallace accuses Fifa of using coaches as pawns, Fifa allegedly paid TT$492k to NC
Fifa-appointed normalisation committee chairman Robert Hadad is still mum on the salary that he and his fellow members collect monthly from the world governing body, even as coaches and players remain unpaid. Hadad admitted in a recent SportsMax interview that he and his colleagues are paid by Fifa but did …
Read More »What crisis? Wired868 explains why almost everyone’s reading the TTFA-Fifa impasse wrong
As the clock ticks on the impasse between Fifa and the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA), the future of the ‘beautiful game’ on these shores is at stake—but not for the reason that most think. The TTFA, despite the shrill bleating of uninformed voices, is not hamstrung by a …
Read More »National football coaches to Wallace: How will you help us to get paid?
The steering committee of the nascent coaches association has asked Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president William Wallace to explain how he intends to help them be remunerated for their work thus far. The TTFA’s technical staff members were hired under the Wallace-led administration, via the board, and began …
Read More »Dear editor: Pragmatism and self-respect don’t have to be mutually exclusive domains
“[…] I agree that in any fight one must be strategic in deciding where, when and how to fight. However, to accept perceived injustice without a whimper is tantamount to being a willing or unwilling accomplice to an unjust enterprise. “Understanding the power relationships and what you can and cannot …
Read More »TTFA vs FIFA puzzle—Pt 2: probity, perfidy and piss-poor presumptions about vows of poverty
Why did satisfying [Terry] Fenwick and [Peter] Miller matter so much to Mr [William] Wallace? That is the intriguing question posed by Wired868 reader Louis Carrington to which I am seeking to offer an answer. Three more reminders: (1) This is opinion, not reportage. For my facts, I rely essentially …
Read More »Dear editor: Do Fifa appeasers want everyone to ‘shut up and dribble’?
“[…] Before the Black Lives Matter movement gained global momentum, one Fox News anchor admonished NBA star Lebron James to ‘shut up and dribble’. Put another way she meant: ‘bat in your crease’—stick to entertainment and don’t be so farse as to tell powerful people how to run ‘their’ country. …
Read More »‘Infantino wanted to humiliate us!’ How Fifa’s suspension backfired and what’s next for T&T football
On Wednesday evening, Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president William Wallace applied to withdraw his case against Fifa for their implementation of a normalisation committee on the twin island republic. By Friday morning, Wallace had twice as many cases running against the world governing body in as many countries. …
Read More »Wallace: ‘We won’t bow to Fifa fear play’; TTFA president explains return to CAS and resumption of case
“[…] I believe that the recent punitive action taken by Fifa against the TTFA because the TTFA is engaged in a legitimate action before the Trinidad and Tobago High Court—even after the TTFA filed documents to discontinue the action before the Court—is high-handed, unreasonable, and does not accord with the …
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