For the sec­ond time in nine months, foot­ball's gen­er­al mem­ber­ship will be called up­on to de­cide on the way for­ward in lo­cal foot­ball.

First, the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion's (TTFA) gen­er­al mem­ber­ship was need­ed to chart a way for­ward in the midst of a heat­ed bat­tle be­tween the sport's world gov­ern­ing body, FI­FA, and the TTFA be­ing led by William Wal­lace, which sub­se­quent­ly re­sult­ed in the TTFA bein sus­pend­ed from FI­FA un­til fur­ther no­tice.

Now, the mem­ber­ship of the T&T Su­per League (TTSL) is be­ing sum­moned to a meet­ing to de­cide on whether Jame­son Rigues, the TTSL's First vice pres­i­dent will be the per­son to take over the lead­er­ship of the or­gan­i­sa­tion, fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of its pres­i­dent Kei­th Look Loy on Oc­to­ber 16. The meet­ing was called by Rigues, who to date, ap­pears not to have been ac­cept­ed by the Board of Di­rec­tors of the TTSL, as the per­son to take over the reigns of the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

Im­me­di­ate­ly af­ter the sub­mis­sion of the res­ig­na­tion let­ter, the board took a de­ci­sion to ask Look Loy to stay on un­til the next An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM), which Guardian Me­dia Sports was told is like­ly to be in De­cem­ber. How­ev­er, al­though Look Loy, the con­tro­ver­sial TTFA mem­ber who was caught smack in the cen­tre of the TTFA vs FI­FA dis­pute, re­ject­ed the call for his re­turn, the Board ap­pears to be mak­ing a sec­ond call for the for­mer pres­i­dent to stay on.

Rigues is now point­ing the mem­ber­ship to Ar­ti­cle 39.7 of the Con­sti­tu­tion that would put him in charge. A re­lease sent out yes­ter­day from Rigues, states: "In keep­ing with the TTSL Con­sti­tu­tion, Ar­ti­cle 39.7, in my ca­pac­i­ty as First Vice-Pres­i­dent, I have as­sumed the re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of Pres­i­dent of the TTSL with im­me­di­ate ef­fect, with the res­ig­na­tion of Mr. Kei­th Look Loy.

The TTSL Con­sti­tu­tion, Ar­ti­cle 39.7 - If the po­si­tion of the Pres­i­dent be­comes va­cant, the First Vice-Pres­i­dent shall as­sume the Pres­i­dent's re­spon­si­bil­i­ties un­til the next Gen­er­al Meet­ing. This Gen­er­al Meet­ing shall elect a new Pres­i­dent for the re­main­ing pe­ri­od of of­fice."

He not­ed fur­ther: "I wish to put on record my hum­ble view and stat­ed po­si­tion that any such de­ci­sion of re­call or non-ac­cep­tance of the res­ig­na­tion of the Pres­i­dent should have been brought to you the mem­ber­ship for any such con­sid­er­a­tion. Hav­ing ac­cept­ed the du­ties and re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of the TTSL pres­i­den­cy, I wish to per­son­al­ly in­vite you, each mem­ber of the TTSL to con­tact me di­rect­ly with any and all mat­ters you con­sid­er im­por­tant to your Or­ga­ni­za­tion and the TTSL which I shall prop­er­ly re­view."

One Board mem­ber who spoke on con­di­tion of anonymi­ty on Wednes­day said he is un­sure of what the prob­lem is with Rigues, since he is cur­rent­ly hold­ing the po­si­tion of in­ter­im pres­i­dent. The mem­ber, from of the top eight TTSL club, said he is un­sure whether the Board could have opt­ed to call on Look Loy to re­turn when in­stead of fol­low­ing ex­act­ly what the con­sti­tu­tion says, but he be­lieves they should. He made it clear how­ev­er that the mem­ber­ship will have the fi­nal say.

He told Guardian Me­dia Sports that Rigues was among the Board meet­ing which de­cid­ed on a re­call of Look Loy.

Rigues said in spite of the con­sti­tu­tion­al breach he will not con­sid­er le­gal ac­tion, as T&T foot­ball needs to take a break from court mat­ters now, in light of the re­cent le­gal bat­tle be­tween the TTFA and the FI­FA.

How­ev­er, he is promis­ing mem­bers that if he is elect­ed pres­i­dent at the AGM he will be pres­i­dent for all of the TTSL and not some. "I al­so in­tend for the or­gan­i­sa­tion to be trans­par­ent al­ways, the or­gan­i­sa­tion must be a de­mo­c­ra­t­ic and un­bi­ased or­gan­i­sa­tion. I per­son­al­ly would like to work to en­sure the or­gan­i­sa­tion is more ad­vanced and more com­pet­i­tive," Rigues said.