“[…] 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 »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 »‘That’s it!’ Wallace rules out return to CAS and says fight is over; criticises Fifa breach
Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president William Wallace said today that their legal fight with Fifa has reached to its end game, with the local football body set to reject an invitation to return to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Yesterday, TTFA attorney Dr …
Read More »Dear Editor: Let’s dare to aim high; Wallace’s courage should be applauded
The following Letter to the Editor on the William Wallace-led TTFA administration was submitted to Wired868 by Patrick Raymond: The recently and newly elected Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president William Wallace and his administration, following its removal and the installation of a Fifa ‘normalisation committee’, and its recent …
Read More »Crowne suggests how TTFA could ‘normalise’ itself; as court of appeal enters fray
High court judge Carol Gobin has run her leg of the legal impasse between the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) and global governing body Fifa. Today, the court of appeal judges Chief Justice Ivor Archie and Nolan Bereaux took the baton. “The TTFA originally did not have a problem …
Read More »Dear Editor: Dr Rowley must not put Fifa above our laws—even if it is foreign, white, powerful and rich
“[…] I note that in response to Mr [William] Wallace’s indication that Parliament can change our law if it wants, the prime minister responded by saying that he is willing to help wherever he can. “I trust that that help will not include an official, parliamentary setting aside of our …
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