The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team held their first training session under new interim head coach Angus Eve today at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva, with 24 players invited from his 60-man Gold Cup provisional squad. Central FC attacker Sean Bonval and Police FC midfielder Jabari Mitchell …
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Berry: Kudos to Scotland on Glasgow Rangers job; footballers must get coaching badges
“[…] Jason Scotland is a perfect example of a great player who has taken the bull by the horns and gained his B and A licences, and no doubt, in due course, his Pro Licence—in a determined and ambitious manner to establish himself as a top coach. “His recent appointment …
Read More »Daly Bread: Continuing vaccine mamaguy; disgusting UNC statements and govt’s non-disclosure
The utterances of the leader of the opposition are regressing further. They descended last week into the disgusting, when she attacked the members of the public health medical team, who regularly appear at the Covid-19 Response media conferences. She linked them to ‘state-sanctioned murder’ because we have over 600 …
Read More »Vice-captain Blackwood follows Virat Kohli’s lead and gets his numbers up
Do the math. Kraigg Brathwaite’s West Indies were only half as good as Dean Elgar’s South Africa in the first innings of the Second Test match in St Lucia. Facing a 149-run deficit, WI will have to bowl out of their skins to avoid having a mountain to climb on …
Read More »Dear Editor: Sorry Prof Knight, PM did in his job in referencing Guyana’s vaccination policy!
“[…] Prof [Andy] Knight also seems oblivious to the fact that many persons/organisations in T&T opposed to the PNM have been saying that the government was tardy in procuring/ordering/purchasing vaccines, and cited Guyana as a prime example of what should have been done. “In this regard, therefore, our PM had …
Read More »Noble: The Apology and the Revolution; how both political leaders fell short over Covid-19 blunder
As Trinidadians, we often want to ‘move on’ when difficult issues arise. We seldom wish to examine how public injustices happen. Instead, we accuse all who stop to explore the wreckage since we do not want ‘to play the blame game’. This tendency is why our nation took 14 years …
Read More »Media Monitor: Badjohn big boys beating up on Biles and Osaka is just not cricket
If Paul Pogba had had the temerity to be the first to do what Cristiano Ronaldo did during his media conference, would the UEFA response have been as muted? The question lurked darkly in my mind as I watched the TV news reporting the UEFA warning to the players to …
Read More »Vaneisa: Raising the bar; T&T once valued education, why are we accepting nonsense?
When she was a wee thing, my daughter loved stories. She had favourites and wanted to hear them over and over. There would be phases; the same one from the night before and the night before, before eventually moving on to another. By the time she was about five, she …
Read More »‘Fake, scurrilous and misleading!’ Dr Browne hits back at Guyanese criticism of Dr Rowley
“[…] The statement of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry as published in the Guyanese media also makes references to Prime Minister [Dr Keith] Rowley that are completely false and appear to simply repeat the fake narrative of Dr [Leslie] Ramsammy. “Further, that Chamber Statement’s disgusting slur to the …
Read More »Eve’s 60-man Gold Cup long-list: Molino, Benny and Griffith III are in, Primus, Orr and Paul are not
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team interim head coach Angus Eve will select his 23-man pool for next month’s Concacaf Gold Cup playoff test from a bumper 60-man provisional squad, which was published today by Concacaf. Wired868 understands the provisional squad was selected on Monday 14 June, which was …
Read More »The Truth about Griffith (Epilogue): Why CoP didn’t qualify for anonymity
The designation ‘anonymous source’ has become a talking point this week, in light of Wired868’s two-part series ‘The truth about Griffith’. So I think it might be useful to explain how someone becomes an unnamed source for Wired868. The three main questions asked in each and every case are: Is …
Read More »Eve names five TLH Rangers players in provisional Gold Cup squad, after ‘cordial’ talks
Former Trinidad and Tobago national youth team stand-outs Aikim Andrews and Isaiah Lee are among five Terminix La Horquetta Rangers players who could resume their international careers during the 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup. The thaw in relations between Rangers and the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team was one …
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