The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team will battle French Guiana for a place in the 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup group stage on Tuesday night, after Cuba were ruled out of the competition today due to ‘Covid-19 related travel and visa challenges and the required Covid-19 testing regime’. “Given …
Read More »Search Results for:
‘Battle of the BOL-ers’: why Trinidad and Tobago and Montserrat wore training gear for Gold Cup playoff
Did you shell out US$90 (TT$605) for the new Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) BOL match day kit and wondered why you were out of sync with the Soca Warriors team last night? Well, it turns out that although Men’s National Senior Team interim head coach Angus Eve and …
Read More »That’s Moore like it, T&T! Eve’s Warriors hit Montserrat for six in opening Gold Cup playoff
Some lightning in Fort Lauderdale forced a 45 minute delay of Angus Eve’s first game in charge of the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team last night. But by midnight the flashes of brilliance at the Drv Pnk Stadium came mostly from the Soca Warriors, as the twin island …
Read More »Pollard powers West Indies to 2-all against South Africa, with Bravo moment at the death
With three overs left in the innings and the South Africa batsmen needing 42 runs for a series-sealing win, Kieron Pollard summoned Dwayne Bravo to bowl the last of his four overs. It took only one ball for him to decide the outcome of Thursday’s Game Four at the Grenada …
Read More »Robinson-Regis: ‘None of them present said a word!’ Lee: ‘They want to turn Parliament into Balisier House!’
Leader of Government Business Camille Robinson-Regis: “[…] It was within the capacity of the Opposition to request that the prime minister stand down… None of them present said a word… Mr Rudranath Indarsingh, who for some time appeared to be texting, merely continued doing so…” Opposition Chief Whip David Lee: …
Read More »Eve ready to unleash ‘Lobo’; discusses Griffith, Joevin, Warriors reboot… and Black Stalin
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team interim head coach Angus Eve looks set to turn to maverick 30-year-old forward Marcus ‘Lobo’ Joseph to fire the Soca Warriors into the Concacaf Gold Cup. Joseph, a two-time World Youth Cup player more than decade ago, was never used by Eve’s predecessor, …
Read More »Are Pollard’s WI biding their time or do they simply not have the goods to beat Bavuma’s Proteas?
The time to be in front, every sportsman knows, is at the end. But that knowledge is unlikely to unduly trouble South Africa’s white ball cricket captain, Temba Bavuma. At the end of Tuesday’s third T20I between his troops and Kieron Pollard’s West Indies, the Proteas had their noses in …
Read More »Hadad says NC blanked Bad Wolf Sport, new pay structure suggested for coaches
Fifa-appointed normalisation committee chairman Robert Hadad admitted to fielding a presentation from Ireland-based company, Bad Wolf Sports, but denied agreeing to any partnership with the company on behalf of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA). The query was one of three questions raised by Eastern Football Association of Trinidad …
Read More »‘Clients sometimes want you to be their friend, or stay with them 24/7!’ Day in the life of an event planner
“[…] Most times, a difficult client is one whose budget is simply not cohesive with their expectations. I mean, you cannot seriously expect to get fresh flowers at the same price as artificial ones. As the saying goes, some clients have ‘champagne taste with mauby money! “[…] There are clients …
Read More »Eve scraps lone pre-Gold Cup friendly due to ‘Covid concerns’ over opponents
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team interim head coach Angus Eve will not have the benefit of a warm-up match before the Concacaf Gold Cup playoffs, after the Soca Warriors scrapped a proposed friendly against amateur club, Miami Dutch Lions FC. Eve, according to the TTFA Media, was forced …
Read More »West Indies flatter when they bowl but Proteas flatten them with the ball
Kieron Pollard’s West Indies came roaring back to restrict South Africa to 167 for 6 in Sunday’s second T20I at the Grenada National Stadium. It was a few runs more than the target to which they cruised for the loss of only two wickets and with five overs to spare …
Read More »Thompson: Why ask ‘will the Tokyo Olympics go on’? Isn’t the question ‘should it’?
The debate is over. In an official communiqué in mid-June, G7 leaders reiterated: ‘our support for the holding of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 in a safe and secure manner as a symbol of global unity in overcoming Covid-19’. Already, IOC vice-president John Coates, responding to a question …
Read More »