Up­set over last-minute claims that Prison Ser­vice FC, with 29 points at the top of the stand­ings, may not be the even­tu­al win­ners of the Ter­minix Su­per League, the club’s pres­i­dent, Fer­di­nand Bib­by, has called for clar­i­fi­ca­tion from the league on an ap­peal which could po­ten­tial­ly snatch the ti­tle right out of their hands.

Af­ter Sun­day’s 2-2 tie be­tween Prison Ser­vice and Po­lice, league or­gan­is­er Richard Piper, in an email, had in­formed the me­dia of the Prison’s tri­umph and con­grat­u­lat­ed the Arou­ca-based team for win­ning the ti­tle. Less than half-an-hour lat­er, how­ev­er, Piper sent out an­oth­er email in­form­ing the me­dia that Bethel Unit­ed FC had won an ap­peal which took them to 28 points and could clinch the ti­tle if they beat Matu­ra Re­Unit­ed in their fi­nal match at a date and time to be de­ter­mined.

In a three-page doc­u­ment on Tues­day, how­ev­er, Bib­by called for trans­paren­cy and clar­i­ty in the mat­ter, say­ing it was caus­ing dis­tress among the af­fect­ed clubs. In his let­ter of con­cern, Bib­by asked: “When was Bethel Unit­ed’s ap­peal lodged and did it meet the re­quired time­lines stip­u­lat­ed by the TTSL? When and where did this Ap­peals Com­mit­tee meet and de­cid­ed up­on Bethel Unit­ed’s ap­peal? and, Why the de­ci­sion of the Ap­peals Com­mit­tee was on­ly com­mu­ni­cat­ed to clubs the night af­ter the fi­nal round of the com­pe­ti­tion?”

Ac­cord­ing to Bib­by, “It is clear that Piper, the Com­pe­ti­tion Man­ag­er, ei­ther wasn’t in­formed of the pend­ing hear­ing of Bethel Unit­ed’s ap­peal, or failed, or re­fused to in­form the clubs of the fact pri­or to com­ple­tion of the last round of foot­ball (with the ob­vi­ous im­pli­ca­tion of the de­ci­sion on the ti­tle race).”

He added, “If Piper, TTSL Com­pe­ti­tion Man­ag­er, didn’t know of Bethel Unit­ed’s ap­peal then who knew? Pe­ter Thomas, TTSL Sec­re­tary, is the of­fi­cial con­duit of protests and ap­peals for the TTSL. Thomas was in­formed of the hear­ing of Bethel Unit­ed’s ap­peal and failed or re­fused to in­form Piper or the clubs of the fact of the pend­ing ap­peal pri­or to com­ple­tion of the last round of foot­ball (with the ob­vi­ous im­pli­ca­tions of the de­ci­sion on the ti­tle race).”