TT Pro League out­fit Cunu­pia FC has been ad­vised to re­con­sid­er its de­ci­sion to sue em­bat­tled T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) pres­i­dent William Wal­lace and his two re­main­ing vice pres­i­dents Clynt Tay­lor and Joseph Sam Phillips over their de­ci­sion to pur­sue their con­tro­ver­sial law­suit against FI­FA.

Re­spond­ing on Sat­ur­day to the case filed by the club ear­li­er this week, Wal­lace's lawyer Matthew Gayle wrote at­tor­ney Pe­ter Tay­lor and sug­gest­ed that it be with­drawn as it was doomed to fail.

Gayle told Guardian Me­dia Sports that his client was im­prop­er­ly served via What­sApp and was not giv­en a pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter and al­lowed to re­spond.

"Com­pli­ance with the pre-ac­tion pro­to­cols is manda­to­ry and your client's fail­ure to do so ap­pears to have caused this abu­sive, friv­o­lous, and fun­da­men­tal­ly flawed claim to have been filed," Gayle said.

Gayle ques­tioned why Tay­lor claimed that Wal­lace and his team in their per­son­al ca­pac­i­ty breached an al­leged con­trac­tu­al agree­ment with the club when no such con­tract ex­ist­ed.

He al­so queried the club's claim that is spon­sor­ship and fund­ing is­sues were caused by Wal­lace and his team's on­go­ing case be­fore Jus­tice Car­ol Gob­in.

"There is no nexus be­tween your client's pur­port­ed po­ten­tial and/or the­o­ret­i­cal fu­ture loss­es, which the claim com­pounds by right­ly and prop­er­ly recog­nis­ing my client as the "du­ly elect­ed Pres­i­dent"," Gayle said.

Gayle sug­gest­ed that the $4.5 mil­lion in Gov­ern­ment and pri­vate fund­ing claimed was not guar­an­teed as it was de­pen­dent on the team's qual­i­fi­ca­tion for re­gion­al club tour­na­ments.

"In any event, no cau­sa­tion is pred­i­cat­ed and the pur­port­ed po­ten­tial/an­tic­i­pat­ed loss­es are pred­i­cat­ed on the oc­cur­rence of sev­er­al events which ate yet to take place or may nev­er do," he said, as he sug­gest­ed that the case was based on spec­u­la­tion.

Gayle sug­gest­ed that the club take up its com­plaint with FI­FA for sus­pend­ing the as­so­ci­a­tion for nar­row­ly miss­ing its dead­line for with­draw­ing the case.

"Any claim based on ac­tion tak­en by FI­FA is first­ly pre­ma­ture and in any event di­rect­ed at the wrong par­ty," Gayle said.

Gayle gave Tay­lor un­til Oc­to­ber 23 to with­draw the case be­fore he ap­plies for it to be struck out and for the club to pay its le­gal costs.

In the court fil­ings, Tay­lor said: "The De­fen­dants' ac­tions were gross­ly neg­li­gent, high­ly reck­less un­eth­i­cal and ir­re­spon­si­ble and with­out due re­gard to the statu­to­ry un­der­pin­ning which binds the ac­tions of the As­so­ci­a­tion since they knew or ought to have known that fail­ure to with­draw the ac­tion in the High Court would re­sult in the sus­pen­sion of T&T from all the at­ten­dant ad­verse con­se­quences flow­ing there­from."

The club claimed that Wal­lace and his team went against the wish­es of the ma­jor­i­ty of its mem­ber del­e­gates, who vot­ed (21 in favour to with­draw; 8 not to with­draw and 3 ab­sten­tions) to with­draw the case, by with­draw­ing their with­draw­al ap­pli­ca­tion, which was filed af­ter the dead­line, af­ter FI­FA an­nounced the sus­pen­sion on Sep­tem­ber 24.

"The De­fen­dants' de­ci­sion not to obey the ma­jor­i­ty vote of its mem­ber­ship to with­draw­ing the High Court ac­tion is in­con­sis­tent with good ad­min­is­tra­tion," Tay­lor stat­ed.

It stat­ed that through the sus­pen­sion it would miss out on par­tic­i­pat­ing in re­gion­al club tour­na­ments and re­ceiv­ing cor­re­spond­ing fund­ing.

"The De­fen­dants' ac­tions will se­vere­ly ham­per the Claimant's de­vel­op­ment of it play­ers and staff for an in­def­i­nite pe­ri­od there­by oc­ca­sion­ing loss and dam­age," Tay­lor said.

Gob­in is sched­uled to rule in the sub­stan­tive case on Tues­day.