Blackpool Sports Club will be honouring ace pan arranger Ray Holman at its 28th-anniversary football match on Sunday (March 10) at the Aranguez Savannah, San Juan, from 4 pm.
Apart from Holman, PYM Football League secretary Sham Dass, Albert “ Nip" Dixon, long-serving T&T Cricket Board administrator Rambhai Patel, champion jockey Brian Harding, former national footballer Dr Alvin Henderson and former Blackpool player Anthony Davis will also be honoured.
A veteran Moosai Sports Club team will come up against a Blackpool XI in the annual affair.
Several former Blackpool and T&T players are expected to turn out, among them James “ Scotty " Scott, Stephen and Patrick Gomez and his brother Patrick, Douglas and Winfield St Hill, Trevor "Seed” Hospedales and many others
Minister of Education Anthony Garcia, a regular at the match, is also to attend and the players are hoping to encourage him to take a sweat.
The Mt Hope-based Blackpool plays the match every year to honour its long history and players who represented the club. Previous honourees include Alvin Corneal, Sedley Joseph, Everald “ Gally” Cummings, Kelvin “KB” Berassa, Gerry Browne, Leroy de Leon, Ulric “Buggy” Haynes, Ellis and Sam Sadaphal, Kent Bernard, Steve David, Robbie Greenidge and Ron “La” La Forest to name a few.
The event promises to be an of nostalgia and an opportunity to mix with some of the outstanding sports and cultural personalities of Trinidad and Tobago.