The T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion's (TTFA) stance to fight against the im­ple­men­ta­tion of a Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee to gov­ern the sport of foot­ball here is be­ing sup­port­ed by some of its mem­bers.

An­oth­er an­nounce­ment of a part­ner­ship by the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) with an ex­pec­ta­tion to help erase the pub­lic-tout­ed TT$50 mil­lion debt was dis­missed by the of­fice of the Ari­ma Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion (ABC) via a me­dia re­lease dat­ed March 21.

With the world fac­ing the night­mare of Covid-19 (coro­n­avirus), two of T&T’s top sport­ing per­son­al­i­ties ply­ing their re­spec­tive trades pro­fes­sion­al­ly abroad, Olympic-bound Te­niel Camp­bell and foot­baller Levi Gar­cia, shared on Sat­ur­day how the pan­dem­ic have af­fect­ed dur­ing an on Is­ports on i95.5fm with host An­dre Er­rol Bap­tiste.

For­mer chair­man of the 2014 FI­FA Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee ap­point­ed in Guyana, Clin­ton Url­ing, says that there are some things cer­tain­ly not nor­mal about FI­FA’s re­cent takeover of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA).

T&T se­nior men and women beach vol­ley­ballers quest for a spot at the Tokyo Olympic Games set for lat­er this year have been put on hold due to the on­go­ing glob­al coro­n­avirus out­break, which has been di­rect­ly re­spon­si­ble for more than 10,00o deaths world­wide so far.

A dra­mat­ic week in T&T foot­ball end­ed with FI­FA ap­point­ed su­per­vi­sor Tyril Patrick writ­ing to the glob­al gov­ern­ing body on Sat­ur­day and turn­ing down the po­si­tion to run do­mes­tic foot­ball af­fairs un­til the FI­FA ap­point­ed nor­mal­iza­tion com­mit­tee is named and as­sem­bled. This came less than 24 hours af­ter the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion’s (TTFA) le­gal team led by Matthew Gayle and Dr Emir Crowne wrote to Patrick on Fri­day in a fi­nal warn­ing in a let­ter threat­en­ing le­gal ac­tion.

T&T se­nior women’s na­tion­al team net­ballers, goal-at­tack Kali­fa Mc Collin and goal de­fence Daystar Swift had their de­but sea­sons in the ANZ Pre­mier­ship Net­ball League which jumped off last Sat­ur­day in New Zealand, post­poned.

Pres­i­dent of the Caribbean Foot­ball Union (CFU) Randy Har­ris says while the de­ci­sion by FI­FA to take over the ad­min­is­tra­tion of foot­ball in Trinidad and To­ba­go is un­for­tu­nate, an ap­peal against the move is like­ly to be un­suc­cess­ful.

West In­dies "white ball" cap­tain Kieron Pol­lard sees im­prove­ment in his team but agrees it will take time and there is still more to do. This was dur­ing an in­ter­view with host An­dre Er­rol Bap­tiste on Is­ports sports pro­gramme on Thurs­day on I95.5fm.

Bar­ba­dos, the coun­try that has pro­duced the most crick­et­ing leg­ends in the West In­dies, is primed to get back on top of crick­et in the blue Caribbean Isles.

West In­dies tour of Eng­land can go on as planned with the Eng­land Crick­et Board (ECB) look­ing to play the match­es be­hind closed doors if the sit­u­a­tion re­quires.

West In­dies bat­ting leg­end Bri­an Lara has joined the fight against the dead­ly Coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic with a video mes­sage to his fans around the crick­et world, of­fer­ing a bit of ad­vice on stay­ing safe as the virus spreads.