Shel­don Phillips, the gen­er­al sec­re­tary of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion has con­firmed be­ing in re­ceipt of a writ­ten re­sponse from for­mer Min­is­ter of Sports Brent San­cho and his ad­vi­sor Kevin Har­ri­son over al­le­ga­tions levied at them over con­tract deal­ings and im­prop­er re­quests made while be­ing part of Cen­tral FC man­age­r­i­al staff.

On Sep­tem­ber 10, the T&TFA in sep­a­rate let­ters to both San­cho and Har­ri­son, said as a mem­ber of Con­ca­caf and in keep­ing with its reg­u­la­to­ry oblig­a­tions and re­spon­si­bil­i­ties it was re­quest­ing writ­ten state­ments from both in­di­vid­u­als or their ap­point­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tive to ad­dress­ing a num­ber of al­le­ga­tions for the pur­pose of pro­vid­ing a fo­rum to clar­i­fy and in­form the lo­cal foot­ball fed­er­a­tion in de­ter­min­ing whether fur­ther ac­tion is war­rant­ed.

Con­tact­ed on Thurs­day, the eve of the dead­line giv­en, Har­ri­son said, both him­self and Brent San­cho would not be mak­ing any re­sponse on their own as the mat­ter was in the hands of their lawyer, at­tor­ney-at-law Robert Vin­cent Charles."

Har­ri­son added: "I would imag­ine that with to­mor­row (to­day) be­ing the dead­line he will pro­vide the T&TFA with our re­sponse, be­cause there have been a lot writ­ten so far and a lot of times when some­one makes a re­sponse via the me­dia they are mis­quot­ed, so we are tak­ing the safe and right method in go­ing through our lawyers." How­ev­er, this is com­plete u-turn from what Har­ri­son told the Guardian ten day ago. When con­tact­ed yes­ter­day for com­ment, Phillips said, "I can con­firm that just af­ter noon on Fri­day, we did re­ceived a writ­ten re­sponse from lawyers rep­re­sent­ing both Brent San­cho and Kevin Har­ri­son. Asked if the T&TFA has re­viewed the let­ter as yet, Phillips, the son of for­mer na­tion­al goal­keep­er, Lin­coln "Tiger" Phillip said, "We have the cor­re­spon­dent along with the state­ments and our le­gal rep­re­sen­ta­tives will now go through it be­fore we present it to our Ex­ec­u­tive Com­mit­tee, which is head­ed by our pres­i­dent, Ray­mond Tim Kee.

As for the next move, Phillip said that will to­tal­ly be up to the Ex­ec­u­tive Com­mit­tee on how they move for­ward af­ter that.

Among the re­quests made were the clar­i­fi­ca­tion on al­le­ga­tions of a re­quest for per­son­al pay­ments made in con­junc­tion with the trans­fer of T&T in­ter­na­tion­al Run­dell Win­ches­ter to Bel­gium low­er league club, CS Vis� be clar­i­fied, specif­i­cal­ly the email trans­mis­sion dat­ed Au­gust 27, 2014 which was sent to Steve Davies that made a re­quest for per­son­al pay­ment and that he (Har­ri­son) please de­scribe the pur­pose for the "per­son­al pay­ment" as stat­ed in the afore­men­tioned email.

An­oth­er top­ic the Ray­mond Tim Kee led T&TFA re­quest­ed in­for­ma­tion on was the al­le­ga­tions of non-pay­ment of play­er bonus­es at Cen­tral FC, which won a record sev­en ti­tles lo­cal­ly last year, in­clud­ing its first ever Pro League ti­tle. The T&TFF is­sued let­ter not­ed that com­plaints have been field­ed by the TTFA from Cen­tral FC play­ers sur­round­ing al­leged with­hold­ing of promised bonus earn­ings con­nect­ed to the 2014/15 Pro League sea­son and Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons League Tour­na­ment. In ad­di­tion, Har­ri­son and San­cho were asked to ex­plain why Con­ca­caf funds meant for T&T Pro League club Cen­tral FC was de­posit­ed in­to a per­son­al ac­count af­ter Con­ca­caf in an of­fi­cial state­ment re­buffed claims of ad­min­is­tra­tive er­ror on its part re­gard­ing a de­posit of $40,000 in an ac­count by Brent San­cho that was al­leged­ly di­rect­ed by Kevin Har­ri­son.

The T&TFF went to the add: "Would you please ex­plain whether you were aware the Con­ca­caf funds were de­posit­ed to your per­son­al ac­count and the rea­son(s) for di­rect­ing the funds to your per­son­al ac­count?"

And fi­nal­ly, with re­gards to the ac­qui­si­tion of teenag­er Levi Gar­cia, the T&TFA not­ed that Cen­tral FC ac­quired his rights through the ex­e­cu­tion of a play­er agree­ment at a time when Gar­cia was be­low the age of con­sent and this must al­so be ex­plained. A for­mer stand­out at Shi­va Boys Hin­du Col­lege, Gar­cia was signed by Dutch club AZ Alk­maar last ear­li­er this year, but ques­tions are be­ing raised with re­gards to the sign­ing of the deal and whether the T&T youth play­er was prop­er­ly rep­re­sent­ed.

In clos­ing the T&TFA said it ex­pect­ed a re­sponse to their re­quests by no lat­er than Fri­day Sep­tem­ber 18, 2015.