Guest contributor Roneil Walcott offers the first of a two-part look into his own dream West Indies Team, as Wired868 continues its look ahead to the T20 Cricket World Cup: Remember the name! What a moment! What a team! The West Indies have done it again. They have defended their …
Read More »Colour me Orange? Warriors maul hastily arranged Tobago outfit in glorified fete match
After contrasting claims about the harmony—or lack thereof—within the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team, head coach Terry Fenwick tried to put his worries behind him, at least temporarily, with an emphatic 8-0 win over a handpicked posse of Tobagonian players, branded the Orange XI, in a friendly encounter …
Read More »Can Soca Warriors learn from ‘Icelandic Madness’? Icelandic professor and Look Loy speak
On 10 June 2006, the national anthem of Trinidad and Tobago belted through the Westfalenstadion Stadium in Dortmund, Germany, as this country’s Soca Warriors became the smallest nation (by population) to play in a FIFA World Cup. Backed by a population of 1.3 million people, Dwight Yorke and his troops …
Read More »FCB Cup 19: Slow and steady wins race; Police thump Rangers to lift first national title in 25 years
After 25 long, hard years of waiting for a top flight national title, Police FC achieved that feat in emphatic style last night as they thumped the fancied Terminix La Horquetta Rangers (LHR) by a 4-1 margin to snatch the TT$75,000 First Citizens Cup prize. The last time Police FC …
Read More »Intercol 19: Stoppage time Sinclair strike gifts Presentation first National Intercol title in 44 years
Call him the super sub. Presentation College San Fernando striker Jardel Sinclair came off the bench to deliver his school’s first National Intercol final win since 1975. Sinclair, who also came off the bench to convert a clinical penalty against Naparima College in the South Intercol final, did the trick …
Read More »‘Grovy’ number: Iconic SSFL coach on Dwarika, ‘Saints’ rivalry, coaching and a life-changing tackle
After calling a day on his 35-plus year coaching career in the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) last week, former Queen’s Royal College coach Nigel ‘Grovy’ Grosvenor took some time away from playing with his granddaughter to talk to Wired868 about his health, his storied career with St Anthony’s College, …
Read More »Big Five 19: Fatima cruise past sloppy Arima; Moruga down Signal Hill to clinch promotion
Fatima College moved to second place in the Shell/FCB Big Five playoff competition after defeating Arima North Secondary by a 3-0 margin at Mucurapo Road this afternoon. Relegated from the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Premier Division in the 2018 season, Fatima took an important step towards rejoining the top …
Read More »Big Five 19: Justice served; Signal Hill edge Arima North in five-goal thriller to revive Premier dream
Signal Hill Secondary kept their aspirations of playing in the 2020 Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Premier Division season alive after edging ten-man Arima North Secondary by a 3-2 margin in an enthralling Big 5 playoff encounter yesterday afternoon. The Shell/FCB Big 5 tournament pits the five Championship zonal winners …
Read More »SSFL 19: ‘Naps’ have one hand on fourth Premier Division trophy after edging plucky San Juan
Naparima College took a giant step towards capturing their fourth Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Premier Division title in six years after edging out San Juan North Secondary by a 1-nil margin in San Fernando this afternoon. ‘Naps’, who now have 33 points from 13 games, will go into their …
Read More »SSFL 19: Set piece troubles; Bourg Boys put three past Green Machine in east derby
No Renaldo Boyce. No Jerry Morris. No problem for coach Jerry Moe’s San Juan North Secondary outfit. The ‘Bourg Boys’ consolidated seventh spot in the Premier Division of the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) today with a hard-fought 3-1 victory over longtime eastern rivals St Augustine Secondary in Bourg Mulatresse. …
Read More »SSFL 19: QRC birthday boy Jahiem Granderson seals the deal on derby day vs St Mary’s
There were no ‘Raz-a-Taz’ chants or signs of the ‘Saints’ going marching in on Serpentine Road today, as Queen’s Royal College emerged 1-0 victors over long-time rivals, St Mary’s College, in Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) action. The QRC and St Mary’s rivalry certainly cannot match ‘El Clasico’. Naparima College …
Read More »Speyside ‘Country Boys’ come to Trincity; George and Sanchez ground Trinity East Hawks
Speyside High School jumped to the eighth spot in the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Premier Division standings after defeating Trinity College East (TCE) by a 2-1 margin in Trincity Saturday afternoon. The visitors opted for a direct style of counter-attacking football, and goals either side of halftime by Nicholas …
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