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 »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: 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 …
Read More »Intercol 23: Moore bros pace Chaguanas, Miracle Ministries KO “Caps East”, confusion in Tobago
Chaguanas North Secondary and Miracle Ministries Pentecostal High School booked their spots in the 2024 Central Zone Intercol final today, with comfortable wins over Carapichaima West Secondary and Carapichaima East Secondary respectively. Chaguanas North won 4-0 in what turned out to be a special afternoon for one household in particular. …
Read More »Lee and J’Eleisha get MVP honours, as SSFL fetes its 2022 standouts
St Benedict’s College captain Tarik Lee and Scarborough Secondary forward J’Eleisha Alexander were awarded the two most prestigious individual accolades today, as the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) feted its top teams and players for the 2022 season at its annual award ceremony at Naparima College. Lee, a pacy, versatile …
Read More »Intercol 2022: Tristan steals Prince’s crowning moment, as Fatima and St Benedict’s book appetizing National Final
The final of the 2022 Secondary Schools Football League’s (SSFL) National Intercol tournament is set and Fatima College and St Benedict’s College will meet on Wednesday at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in what is a rematch of this year’s Big 4 Final. The SSFL Premier Division champs St Benedict’s cruised …
Read More »B&B Ep 8: Makan Hislop on the discrimination of Tobago footballers, and what ‘Bago’ has to offer
Former Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team defender, 2001 World Youth Cup player and National Beach Soccer player Makan Hislop explains how Tobagonians often get a raw deal when striving for international selection, while Barney chimes in from Taiwan with a contemptuous story and Burdie finds something that Makan …
Read More »B&B Ep 3: Bertille St Clair on Dwight Yorke and the three ‘A’s’ of developing talent
Former Trinidad and Tobago national football coach Bertille St Clair describes his coaching legacy, Signal Hill, the making of Dwight Yorke and the three ‘A’s’ of developing talent. Subscribe for free to Burdie and Barney for our entire archive of interviews at Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, or TuneIn Radio, …
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