Signal Hill Secondary will line up among the top schoolboy teams of the country in the 2024 Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Premier Division competition, which kicks off in September. And Blanchisseuse Secondary will have to start their own 2024 campaign in the North Zone Championship Division without star forward …
Read More »Big 5: SSFL still deliberating on contentious Signal Hill – Blanchisseuse match
The Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) is not yet ready to present a verdict on a crucial Big Five fixture between Blanchisseuse Secondary and Signal Hill Secondary, according to inside sources. Wired868 can confirm that the SSFL Disciplinary Committee met yesterday with representatives from both schools to discuss several contentious …
Read More »Big 5: Miracle Ministries coach, Cupid, gets 3-match ban for assaulting player
Miracle Ministries Pentecostal High School (MMPHS) head coach Kern Cupid has been banned for three Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) matches and is likely to be referred to the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) Child Safeguarding unit, after being found guilty of physically assaulting a Signal Hill Secondary player. …
Read More »Big 5: Blanchisseuse, MMPHS face disciplinary hearings; Signal Hill star “banned” from Trinidad
The Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) will hold three disciplinary committee meetings in relation to the recently concluded Big Five tournament over the next six days, as the organisation tries to get a grip on a competition that was mired in controversy even before kick-off. St Augustine Secondary emerged as …
Read More »St Augustine whip MMPHS, chaos in Tobago and more protests, in explosive Big 5 finale
“Coming back from [relegation from] the Premier Division in 2022, this means a lot to us—to make a statement,” St Augustine Secondary head coach Tacuma Jones told Wired868. Yesterday afternoon, the “Green Machine” put the cherry on top of their promotion to the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Premier Division, …
Read More »Dear Editor: Will SSFL act on Miracle Ministries’ six substitutions against Moruga?
“[…] On Monday 4th March 2024, in a Big 5 match for promotion to the top flight (Premier League), six (6) substitutions were made by Miracle Ministries. “The Constitution clearly states ‘a maximum of 5 substitutes are permitted’—in exceptional cases of concussion, then a sixth. Did this occur? “Based on …
Read More »Big Five: Miracle on Tompierre Trace! MMPHS trounce Moruga to near promotion
Do you believe in Miracle Ministries? Maybe it’s time you did. Yesterday, Central Zone champions Miracle Ministries Pentecostal High School (MMPHS) moved within a whisker of Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) history after a commanding 4-0 win away to Moruga Secondary at Tompierre Trace in Moruga. The result spelt doom …
Read More »Moruga and Miracle Ministries get 4 March date, as Big 5 resumes
The Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Big Five competition will resume on Monday 4 March, with Moruga Secondary hosting Miracle Ministries Pentecostal High School (MMPHS) from 3pm at Tompierre Trace, Moruga. And, on Friday 8 March, the competition should finally come to its conclusion with Blanchisseuse Secondary travelling to Signal …
Read More »Big 5 postponed again! How Blanchisseuse, Signal Hill, MMPHS and Moruga can still qualify
The Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) executive committee has postponed the 2023 Big Five competition again, as a result of “flu-like symptoms” suffered by ten Miracle Ministries Pentecostal High School (MMPHS) players. The medical report, relayed by MMPHS, prompted the SSFL to postpone the Central Zone champions’ clash with Moruga …
Read More »Big Five: “Green Machine” return to Premier Division; budding meteorologist breaks Signal Hill hearts
St Augustine Secondary are back in the Premier Division. In their penultimate match in the Secondary Schools Football League’s (SSFL) Big Five competition at Warren Street yesterday, they edged past Signal Hill Secondary. In an attritional contest with few chances and fewer moments of quality, striker Jemell Cooper’s angled 53rd …
Read More »Big Five: Five Kirk showing! Blanchisseuse blow away Moruga to go top
Forget what you think you know about Blanchisseuse. Tranquil, slow-paced, and friendly? Hah. The Moruga Secondary football team would beg to differ. At the final whistle in yesterday’s Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Big Five contest, Blanchisseuse Secondary led by five goals to two; and, in truth, the home team …
Read More »Big Five: Youthful Signal Hill sting Moruga; “Scorpions”, Blanchisseuse in trouble
“We will take it one game at a time,” Signal Hill Secondary head coach Downie Marcelle told Wired868. “We want to go Prem—that is our goal and aim for this year.” Six years have passed since Signal Hill, the school of Trinidad and Tobago legends Dwight Yorke and Bertille St …
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