In­stead of shoot­ing for the Court of Ar­bi­tra­tion for Sport, the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) has opt­ed to pass. The sur­prise de­ci­sion comes four days af­ter world foot­ball’s gov­ern­ing body, the FI­FA failed to meet the TTFA’s 8:00 am dead­line of Mon­day 23, March to re­spond to con­cerns about the nor­mal­iza­tion com­mit­tee it an­nounced will be is com­ing to run the day to day af­fairs of T&T foot­ball last Tues­day in place of the TTFA four elect­ed of­fi­cers which in­clud­ed Pres­i­dent William Wal­lace and the Board of Di­rec­tors.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) vice pres­i­dent Dr. Kishore Shal­low has giv­en the or­ga­ni­za­tion’s ad­min­is­tra­tion a pass­ing grade for its first year in of­fice, point­ing to im­prove­ments in just about all ar­eas of the 10-point plan which the Ricky Sker­ritt-led team had used as a plat­form for elec­tion.

"There is life af­ter COVID19 and the COVID19 pan­dem­ic and I see the CYGTT2021 as play­ing a very im­por­tant part in be­ing a cat­a­lyst for the post-COVID19 pan­dem­ic life and era."

A de­ci­sion on when or if the T&T Hock­ey Board Out­door League 2020 sea­son com­mences will not be made un­til a clear­er pic­ture be­comes avail­able with re­gards to­wards the coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) world pan­dem­ic that has so far ac­count­ed for one death and 61 con­firmed cas­es lo­cal­ly.

Fol­low­ing my col­umn last week, sev­er­al read­ers asked me if I sup­port­ed the cur­rent T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) ad­min­is­tra­tion as I ap­peared to not sup­port the pre­vi­ous one. I chuck­led to my­self as this episode with FI­FA has noth­ing to do with whom I sup­port or don’t sup­port, I sim­ply sup­port what is fair.

With COVID-19 putting a stran­gle­hold on sport­ing events world­wide for this year, T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) pres­i­dent Bri­an Lewis is stay­ing pos­i­tive with the prospect of this coun­try be­ing able to host the Com­mon­wealth Youth Games (CYG) next year.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Crick­et West In­dies chief ex­ec­u­tive John­ny Grave says the gov­ern­ing body had gone to great lengths not to al­so scrap the ju­nior and se­nior and women do­mes­tic cham­pi­onship, in light of the coro­n­avirus out­break in the re­gion.

The dust raised by sud­den and swift foot­ball takeover here in T&T has not yet set­tled and nei­ther will it set­tle soon, Es­pe­cial­ly if the oust­ed ad­min­is­tra­tion con­tin­ues to pur­sue me­di­a­tion through the Court of Ar­bi­tra­tion for Sport (CAS) on FI­FA’s de­ci­sion to ap­point a Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee here in T&T.

Coach of the T&T Red Force fran­chise Mervyn Dil­lon is dis­ap­point­ed that the West In­dies Cham­pi­onships had to end ear­ly but sat­is­fied with his team's sec­ond-place fin­ish in the tour­na­ment.

Bar­ba­dos has been crowned the re­gion­al Four-Day cham­pi­on as Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) out of an abun­dance of cau­tion has can­celled the fi­nal two rounds of match­es in the West In­dies Cham­pi­onships.

T&T Foot­ball Ref­er­ees As­so­ci­a­tion's (TTFRA) role with­in the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion's (TTFA) op­er­a­tions is one of the con­cerns that FI­FA had af­ter con­sul­ta­tion with Con­ca­caf be­fore de­cid­ing to send a Nor­mal­iza­tion Com­mit­tee.