Pro League frontrunners DIRECTV W Connection and Central FC will aim to get Trinidad and Tobago back into the CONCACAF Champions League when they start their CFU qualifying matches this week. Connection, the reigning Pro League champions, face the Guyana Defence Force, Antigua’s SAP FC and Jamaica’s Waterhouse FC on …

“Nothing good comes easily,” said Caledonia AIA’s Jameel Neptune. “No excuses! Find or make a way!” Twenty-one-year-old Jameel Neptune has his heart set on wearing the “red, white and black.” Neptune is a midfielder for Caledonia AIA where he is affectionately called “Shooter”—a name that stuck to him from his …

There were two Pro League football fixtures today but three contests. Defence Force, Point Fortin Civic, Caledonia AIA and San Juan Jabloteh were battling for places within the middle to lower order of Trinidad and Tobago’s domestic top flight competition. The Army/Coast Guard combination cemented their third place with a …

Remember when Facebook was about puppies with guilty faces, funny clips of adventurous babies and vacation photos? Hold that thought for a bit. Hold it. Now exhale. You have a better chance of fitting into your Form One school uniform than seeing that place again. Now Facebook has become a …

Diminutive Trinidad and Tobago playmaker Hughtun Hector has lost the opportunity to play in his first CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament after rupturing his Achilles tendon in a Vietnam league match for Hanoi T&T on April 3. Hanoi lost the fixture 1-0 away to Binh Duong. Hector had a successful operation …

HL MENCKEN suggests that “under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.” I could find no quote more discomforting in its truth about the situation here in Trinidad and Tobago. There …

“I’m a very confident person,” San Juan goalkeeper Shane Mattis told Wired868. “I know that anytime I touch the pitch, you have to come good to score against me.” Shane Mattis, Jabloteh’s 34-year-old Jamaica-born goalkeeper, has been playing football since he was seven. He spent much of his adult life in Trinidad where …

Say what you like about Terry Fenwick—and most do—but never let it be said that the Englishman does not know how to make an entrance. Central FC’s new old coach began his second term at the “Couva Sharks” with a 3-0 triumph over his former employer, San Juan Jabloteh that …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) Disciplinary Committee is expected to meet on April 7 to rule on a TTFA FA Trophy protest lodged by 2015 runners-up, DIRECTV W Connection. Connection lost on penalty kicks to North East Stars in the March 29 final at the Ato Boldon Stadium …

There is a local video making the rounds that has me quite disturbed. The video appears to have been shot on Ariapita Avenue, Woodbrook in the wee hours of morning on Sunday March 29. (Click HERE to view video). It starts with an irate female violently venting her frustrations on …

Scene: Online. Four men and a divine being meet for a conference call on Skype. MP Pastor Rodger Samuel (in an excited voice): Everyone, shush! We have Him on the line… Sat Maharaj: Who the arse yuh shushing?! (Audible groans from several unidentified voices.) JC: Good day, everyone. And thanks …

After a two and a half year drought, North East Stars returned to winners’ row last night with a 5-4 penalty shootout triumph over defending champions, DIRECTV W Connection, in the 2015 TTFA FA Trophy final at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. There were roughly 1,000 fans at the …