Be­lea­guered for­mer T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent William Wal­lace is promis­ing to re­lease a com­pre­hen­sive state­ment on his stew­ard­ship and the state of the cash-strapped as­so­ci­a­tion short­ly.

Wal­lace made the promise on I95FM Sports Show on Sat­ur­day, days af­ter be­ing tak­en to task for sign­ing at least four con­tracts with­out nec­es­sary board ap­provals by mem­bers of the Unit­ed TTFA group which was in charge of the TTFA ad­min­is­tra­tion be­fore it was re­moved by FI­FA on March 17 and a Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee brought in.

"If not on Mon­day, by Tues­day I will have a com­pre­hen­sive state­ment sent out to the en­tire me­dia about the is­sues," Wal­lace told host An­dre Bap­tiste in re­sponse to the cur­rent woes he was fac­ing.

Asked if he feels he will be able to clear his name, Wal­lace re­spond­ed: "Def­i­nite­ly, def­i­nite­ly. Af­ter the re­lease let me be judged then."

Wal­lace al­so promised to pro­duce doc­u­ment­ed ev­i­dence on all the con­tracts he is al­leged to have signed with­out board ap­proval.

Last Mon­day, the Unit­ed TTFA ac­cused Wal­lace, who is al­so the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) pres­i­dent, of sign­ing un­ap­proved con­tracts for na­tion­al coach Ter­ry Fen­wick, gen­er­al sec­re­tary Ramesh Ramd­han, mar­ket­ing rep­re­sen­ta­tive Pe­ter Miller and a $25 mil­lion sports­wear deal with UK firm Avec Sports with­out their knowl­edge and ap­proval from the TTFA board.

The Unit­ed TTFA group, which in­cludes Kei­th Look Loy, a for­mer TTFA Tech­ni­cal Com­mit­tee chair­man, North Zone Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (NFA) pres­i­dent An­tho­ny Har­ford and for­mer TTFA vice pres­i­dents Clynt Tay­lor, Su­san Joseph-War­rick and Joseph Sam Phillip, con­demned his ac­tions, liken­ing them to that of for­mer pres­i­dent David John-Williams, whom the group fought to re­place dur­ing TTFA elec­tion in No­vem­ber last year.

"This pat­tern of be­hav­iour is un­ac­cept­able. It is uni­lat­er­al. It ex­ceeds the con­sti­tu­tion­al lim­its to the pres­i­dent's au­thor­i­ty. It is de­cep­tive and deeply dis­ap­point­ing," the group said, even as it not­ed it was still in sup­port of the fight against FI­FA bring­ing in the Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee to re­struc­ture the lo­cal game in the High Court.

But Wal­lace de­fend­ed him­self dur­ing the ra­dio pro­gramme, say­ing "There is an­oth­er side to a sto­ry and one nar­ra­tive is out there and as a leader of a group is to ab­sorb some of the things go­ing on but there comes a time when you can ab­sorb no more. When it starts to in­ter­fere with your cred­itabil­i­ty you have to speak out and this is my op­por­tu­ni­ty to do that."

He said he will be shar­ing the con­tents of his promised re­lease with his vice-pres­i­dents and the team be­fore it goes out.

De­spite the thrash­ing by the Unit­ed TTFA group, Wal­lace, who is chal­leng­ing FI­FA's de­ci­sion to bring in the Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee in the High Courts, said: "The Unit­ed TTFA is still unit­ed. I spoke to my team this morn­ing. I spoke to Look Loy for 45 min­utes to­day (Sat­ur­day) on my plan to go pub­lic."

FI­FA re­moved the Wal­lace ex­ec­u­tive af­ter a FI­FA/Con­ca­caf fact-find­ing mis­sion, which in­clud­ed an in­de­pen­dent au­di­tor, in Feb­ru­ary found that “ex­treme­ly low over­all fi­nan­cial man­age­ment meth­ods, com­bined with mas­sive debt (TT$37.4 mil­lion), have re­sult­ed in the TTFA fac­ing a very re­al risk of in­sol­ven­cy and illiq­uid­i­ty.”

In its High Court re­sponse to the Unit­ed TTFA le­gal chal­lenge, FI­FA stat­ed that: “The re­moval of the Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee be­fore ap­pro­pri­ate con­trols, poli­cies and pro­ce­dures are in place at the TTFA will not on­ly jeop­ar­dise the achieve­ments to date and rein­tro­duce the threats to the sol­ven­cy of the TTFA, but it will be a dis­in­cen­tive to FI­FA to pro­vide any fur­ther fund­ing to the TTFA giv­en the ab­sence of ap­pro­pri­ate con­trols.”

Mean­while, AC Port-of-Spain busi­ness de­vel­op­ment of­fi­cer Michael Awai said on Fri­day that he would at­tempt to per­suade the 49 TTFA mem­bers, among them the T&T Pro League, T&T Su­per League, re­gion­al as­so­ci­a­tions, pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary schools, Ref­er­ees' As­so­ci­a­tion, Fut­sal and Beach Soc­cer and the T&T Amer­i­can Youth Soc­cer Or­gan­i­sa­tion, to write to the gen­er­al sec­re­tary Ramd­han to call an ex­tra­or­di­nary gen­er­al meet­ing to stop the Unit­ed TTFA group from tak­ing le­gal ac­tion against the FI­FA.