Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team coach Stephen Hart suffered another withdrawal yesterday, as veteran right back Justin Hoyte pulled out of Friday’s 2016 Copa America Centenario play off clash against Haiti with a hamstring injury. Hoyte’s pull-out means the “Soca Warriors”—already without midfielders Kevin Molino and Hughtun Hector, as …

Steups! For the second straight year, the Wired868 XI lost in its Football Festival by a solitary goal. The Darin Lewis Invitational XI stole bragging rights yesterday with a 6-5 win over a decidedly more mature Wired line-up at the UWI SPEC ground in St Augustine. Darin “Speng” Lewis turned …

The charges laid against the presidents of several football associations would suggest that FIFA needs to light a candle rather than curse the darkness when it comes to regulations regarding the presidency of its member associations. The high number of CONMEBOL and CONCACAF presidents and ex-presidents who have been charged …

Scene: Office of the Minister of Satire. The phone rings. Mr Live Wire: Hello? Caller (singing): Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind… Live Wire: I hope you referring to Kamla. Caller: What? No my brother. Auld Lang Syne means to ‘times gone past’. I am calling …

No more licks! Former “Strike Squad” star Leonson Lewis is promising to end a two-year losing streak for the Wired868XI veterans on Saturday in the fourth annual Wired868 Football Festival from 3 pm on Saturday January 2 at the UWI SPEC ground in St Augustine. Wired868 will again tackle an …

Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team playmaker Keron “Ball Pest” Cummings will be out of action for at least 10 months, after he underwent surgery this morning at the Port of Spain General Hospital. The operation was performed by Dr Marlon Mencia and hospital staff and observed by Orlando-based Trinidad …

Afra Raymond resigning from JCC is no trivial matter, yet it is surprising how social media comments, and corner talk are missing the heart of the issue. The implications for the future of governance and transparency in Trinidad and Tobago is at serious risk when a reasonable request for transparency …

The good news is that the West Indies cricket team have finally made a defiant stance at a cricket pitch in Australia. The bad news is it is not against anyone in a “baggy green.” Coach Phil Simmons and his troops won’t be taming any Lyons this month from the …

Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team head coach Stephen Hart has summoned DIRECTV W Connection attacker Shahdon Winchester and Portland Timbers II attacker Rundell Winchester to his 23-man squad to face Haiti in the 2016 Copa America Centenario play off on January 8 in Panama City. The two Winchesters replace …

If you are a football fan or stakeholder, then this may be the most important case that you have barely heard of. On 14 December 2015, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled against Lebanon-based football coach and ex-Trinidad and Tobago international player David Nakhid in his bid to …

I am surprised that so many people are surprised by the termination of services—firing, suspension, the euphemistically-couched “sent on administrative leave”—of several senior government officials, the most prominent being Governor of the Central Bank, Jwala Rambarran. Clearing the politically-constructed State-stables of partisan appointees is a ritual that occurs every time …

Trinidad and Tobago international footballer and North East Stars playmaker Keron “Ball Pest” Cummings was shot outside his home in Diego Martin early this morning, after returning home from a boat cruise with his girlfriend. Cummings, according to Stars coach Roland Clarke, had just been given a lift home by …