There is a question mark hanging over the future of the Blink/Bmobile-sponsored All Sport Promotions National Super League (NSL) but organisers are happy with what it has so far contributed to national football. Speaking yesterday evening at the launch of the League’s 2013 season at the CLICO Hospitality box at …
Read More »Jones’ goals: T&T forward ready to deliver at Gold Cup
Trinidad and Tobago and England Premier League forward Kenwyne Jones hopes to use next month’s 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup to boost his scoring record for the “Soca Warriors.” However, the Stoke City striker insisted that he is fully committed to his country and always gives his best in red, black …
Read More »Glen heads for India sojourn with Shillong Lajong
Veteran Soca Warriors striker Cornell Glen is saying goodbye to his current employers North East Stars and the Trinidad and Tobago Pro League and saying hello to Shillong Lajong and the Indian I-League. The I-League is the top professional league in India which was launched in 2007. The 14-club competition …
Read More »T&T Red Steel vows to overcome talent drain
Having already lost power-hitter Kieron Pollard and mystery spinner Sunil Narine, Trinidad and Tobago continued the haemorrhage in the June 5 Caribbean Premier League (CPL) draft in Montego Bay in Jamaica. That does not seem to bother officials of the local franchise, the Red Steel, who claim not to be …
Read More »Contrasting Champions League tests for Caledonia and Connection
The DIRECTV W Connection football club is going to need skill and organisation to progress beyond the first round of the 2013/14 CONCACAF Champions League but fellow Pro League outfit, Neal and Massy Caledonia AIA, will need a slice of luck as well. The two Trinidad and Tobago teams were …
Read More »Rangers’ reconnection mission: New coach, fresh vision for St Ann’s team
Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a community to raise a club. That may not be what the old adage says but it is what the St Ann’s Rangers Football Club Chairman Richard Fakoory and Director of Operations Richard Piper appear to believe. It …
Read More »Connection, Stars aim to build on 2012/13 successes
“It was a good game for the fans and most importantly a great advert for the Trinidad and Tobago Pro League,” said North East Stars coach Angus Eve, last night. Eve’s Sangre Grande-based team succumbed to DIRECTV W Connection 4-3 on penalties in last night’s Digicel Pro Bowl final at …
Read More »Caledonia qualifies for CONCACAF Champions League
Neal & Massy Caledonia AIA will join DIRECTV W Connection in the group stage of the 2013/14 CONCACAF Champions League after holding Jamaica’s Portmore United to a 2-2 draw in the second leg of a CONCACAF playoff yesterday evening at the Ato Bolton Stadium, Couva. Yesterday’s result meant that Caledonia …
Read More »Caledonia edges Portmore in CONCACAF qualifier
Neal and Massy Caledonia AIA secured a scrappy 1-0 victory over Jamaican unit Portmore United in the first leg of the CONCACAF Champions League play-off yesterday evening at the Hasely Crawford Stadium. Tall, talented Trinidad and Tobago international striker Jamal Gay scored the lone goal with a header in the …
Read More »T&T first-class cricket success can boost Windies
Two characteristics noticeable in the legendary cricket teams of the post-World War II era were depth and the predominance of one territory in each nation, which usually became the core of their first XI. The first great West Indies team from 1963-68 had a strong Barbadian influence and was captained …
Read More »Thanks and goodbye to Sammy and silent WI selectors
In Charlie’s Angels, an American television series later adapted into a movie, three attractive private investigators work for a boss that they never met and who gives instructions through speaker phone. It is tempting to believe that the West Indies cricket team shares a similar relationship with its selection committee, …
Read More »Stabilising the West Indies cricket team
The West Indies cricket team’s 3-0 One-Day International (ODI) triumph against Zimbabwe marks the 16th time that the regional team has swept an opposing nation since a 1976 whitewash away to England under legendary captain Clive Lloyd. There is little similarity between those two emphatic series. Zimbabwe is clearly a minnow …
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