Three out of four clubs that threat­ened le­gal against the T&T Su­per League if they did not get the right to vote at Sun­day's an­nu­al gen­er­al meet­ing (AGM) and Elec­tion vir­tu­al­ly, have agreed to drop their case on the ba­sis that they were re-in­stat­ed.

The oth­er team Harlem Strik­ers will de­cide by the end of this week if they will be tak­ing le­gal ac­tion, its man­ag­er Gre­go­ry Mc Sween has said.

Cen­tral 500, Harlem Strik­ers, 1976 Phoenix and Youth Stars were among sev­en sus­pend­ed clubs, the oth­ers be­ing De­fence Force, WASA FC and Mara­bel­la Fam­i­ly Cri­sis Cen­tre, to have been sus­pend­ed by the Su­per League back in 2019 for non-com­pli­ance. The sus­pen­sion meant they were al­so de­barred from cast­ing votes for a new pres­i­dent on Sun­day.

The four clubs, via their At­tor­ney Pe­ter Tay­lor, sent a pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter to Su­per League sec­re­tary Pe­ter Thomas on Fri­day, not­ing that their non-com­pli­ance should not pre­vent them from ex­er­cis­ing their pow­ers to vote.

Fol­low­ing a marathon ses­sion on Sun­day, eight out of the 13 clubs ab­stained from vot­ing to re-in­state the sus­pend­ed clubs, while an­oth­er- Cunu­pia FC was ab­sent. The re­in­state­ment of the clubs came from votes by Pe­tit Val­ley Diego Mar­tin Unit­ed, Guaya Unit­ed, Ma­ture Re Unit­ed, Erin FC and the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T.

Youth Stars own­er and man­ag­er Anselm Rob­ley said af­ter speak­ing to 1976 Phoenix and Cen­tral 500, the clubs are hap­py to be back in the League and will not pur­sue the mat­ter fur­ther.

"The most im­por­tant thing is that we get to play foot­ball again. When you think about it, who do we pe­nalise for this?, in the end, foot­ball will suf­fer, be­cause the Su­per League doesn't have mon­ey to com­pen­sate us for wrong­ful­ly do­ing to us what they did. The truth is that some of the things that they did were un­law­ful, and be­cause peo­ple don't have the know-it-all, we got licks for it," Rob­ley told Guardian Me­dia Sports on Mon­day.

The To­ba­go team was one of just a few teams and or­gan­i­sa­tions to have been com­pli­ant when the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion, at an Emer­gency Gen­er­al Meet­ing on April 21, 2018, de­cid­ed to pro­vide much-need­ed help by reg­u­lar­is­ing them, in­stead of fol­low­ing through on a rec­om­men­da­tion to sus­pend or ex­pel the clubs and or­gan­i­sa­tions from an ear­li­er AGM on March 31 of that year.

Con­tact­ed on Mon­day Mc Sween dis­missed claims of their re­in­state­ment, say­ing: "We didn't get a chance to vote which is the most im­por­tant thing.

I think it was a whole set-up if you re­al­ly check it, be­cause of an agen­da of who they want to be pres­i­dent," Mc Sween ex­plained.

Mean­while, Prison of­fi­cer Lee Davis is the new pres­i­dent of the TTSL af­ter he got the nod ahead of Ke­iron Ed­wards, the for­mer East­ern Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (EFA) pres­i­dent and De­fence Force's Ryan Ot­t­ley in vir­tu­al elec­tion al­son on Sun­day. Af­ter Ot­t­ley got on­ly two votes and was dropped in the first round of vot­ing, Davis got 8 votes to Ed­wards' 4 to se­cure the pre­den­cy, a sim­i­lar num­ber to what they both got in the first rounds from the 14 clubs that par­tic­i­pat­ed in the process.