Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve pointed to the high altitude and the quality of his opponents, Bolivia, as the Soca Warriors crashed to a 5-0 friendly defeat tonight in Sucre—the largest defeat of his tenure so far. Eve told Wired868 beforehand that the Warriors …
Read More »Jesse, John-Paul and Jamal take centre stage, as Eve discusses T&T’s Bolivia challenge
“[…] I see John-Paul Rochford playing in between the lines like Judah Garcia, as an inverted winger. He shoots the ball well for a little fellah. I don’t think we shoot enough from outside. “He is a tenacious player and has a great eye for a pass and a tremendous …
Read More »QPCC FC mourn tragic deaths of young footballers Belgrave and Taiwan-bound Prudhomme
The QPCC football community was plunged into mourning yesterday after losing two players on the same day in different incidents. Former goalkeeper Raheem ‘Birdie’ Belgrave, 29, drowned yesterday morning while full-back Ackime Prudhomme was gunned down in Arouca. QPCC head coach Shawn Cooper and his former assistant Wayne Sheppard both …
Read More »Ireland shrug off absences to beat WI by 5 wkts, despite late fireworks by Shepherd and Smith
Four days ago, Ireland were uncertain about whether they could put together a full XI to complete the CG Insurance One-Day International series against the West Indies owing to five Covid-19 cases and two injuries. Today, the Irish did far better than just show up as they downed their hosts …
Read More »AFA confirms Mollon suspension but insists only one instance of ‘abuse or mistreatment of player’
The Anguilla Football Association (AFA) has confirmed that Women’s National Senior Team head coach Ahkeela Mollon was suspended for ‘abuse’ of a player but stressed that it only received one such complaint about the Trinidad and Tobago-born coach. AFA president Girdon Connor and his administration have faced public criticism over …
Read More »‘I chase bad men!’ How the late Andrew Jennings changed investigative sport journalism
One of my most vivid memories of Andrew Jennings came on our second meeting, after a media conference at the Trinidad Hilton in the build-up to the 2001 Fifa Under-17 World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago. It was an elegant event, attended by then Fifa president Sepp Blatter, with every …
Read More »‘Concerned parents’, a parliamentary reprimand and bullying accusations: Ahkeela responds to Anguilla criticism
Former Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team star Ahkeela Mollon has had a mixed start to her new career as an international coach. Whether Mollon is saint or sinner, villain or victim, depends on whom you speak to in Anguilla, though. And after 14 months on the job as …
Read More »T&T’s Commonwealth Games basketball place in jeopardy, as NBFTT defies TTOC
The Trinidad and Tobago men’s 3×3 basketball team has already booked its place at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, which starts on 28 July. Whether they get to participate, though, will hinge on a significant thawing of relations between the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) and the …
Read More »Pollard, Holder and Allen return, but Gayle swansong nixed while Hetmyer, Russell and Oshane omitted
West Indies white ball captain Kieron Pollard will lead his troops in next month’s limited overs outings against the Republic of Ireland and Jamaica, after recovering from the hamstring injury that kept him out of the disastrous Homage Series in Pakistan. The Cricket West Indies (CWI) selection panel, now temporarily …
Read More »Fifa admits Hadad’s NC has struggled with mandate; then extends their TTFA control for another year
The Bureau of the Fifa Council, headed by Fifa president Gianni Infantino, has extended the mandate for its normalisation committee in Trinidad and Tobago until 31 March 2023. The move means that the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA)—and all organised football on the two-island republic—will remain under the thumb of …
Read More »Express stands firm on Sinopharm story, despite criticism from PAHO, St Augustine Medical, China embassy and PM
The Trinidad Express has not backed down from its controversial investigative piece into the efficacy of vaccines being administered locally, despite criticism from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the laboratory used to ‘test’ the protection offered by vaccines. Yesterday, in a story titled ‘Putting vaccines to the test’, …
Read More »Dr Rowley seeks to address rampant virus with ‘public sector safe zones’; but will Duke shoulder arms?
At just past 4pm today, the Ministry of Health reported 33 deaths from Covid-19 over the past 24 hours. And, in a statement that is likely to be lost in the shrill of responses to Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s latest promised pandemic measures, chief medical officer Dr Roshan Parasram …
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