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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Normalisation Committee seeks legal advice on TTFA contracts

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Walter Alibey
1850 days ago
20200630
Nigel Romano - FIFA Normalisation Committee

Nigel Romano - FIFA Normalisation Committee

Nigel Ro­mano, one of three mem­bers of the FI­FA-ap­point­ed Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee has said his com­mit­tee is seek­ing le­gal ad­vice to treat with the con­tracts signed by for­mer pres­i­dent William Wal­lace, the head of the Unit­ed T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion, which was done with­out the ap­proval from the Board of Di­rec­tors of the T&TFA.

In a news re­lease on Wednes­day, Wal­lace ad­mit­ted to mak­ing mis­takes in sign­ing a US$20,000 con­tracts for se­nior na­tion­al foot­ball coach Ter­ry Fen­wick: a US$25 mil­lion kit deal with UK sports­wear sup­pli­er Avec Sports: a two-year con­tract with gen­er­al sec­re­tary Ramesh Ramd­han when the Board agreed to a one-year deal: and an­oth­er US$20, 000 deal for mar­ket­ing rep­re­sen­ta­tive Pe­ter Miller whom he cred­its for the bulk of the fi­nances gen­er­at­ed by his as­so­ci­a­tion dur­ing their short stint.

His ac­tions was met with con­dem­na­tion from his own Unit­ed TTFA group which com­prised Kei­th Look Loy, a for­mer TTFA Tech­ni­cal Com­mit­tee chair­man, North Zone Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (NFA) pres­i­dent An­tho­ny Har­ford and for­mer TTFA vice pres­i­dents Clynt Tay­lor, Su­san Joseph-War­rick and Joseph Sam Phillip.

How­ev­er, on Mon­day, Ro­mano re­spond­ing to the lat­est TTFA de­vel­op­ments said, "We will take le­gal ad­vice on that and then act on that ad­vice."

On June 2, Ro­mano told Guardian Me­dia Sports that the com­mit­tee had been en­gaged in talks with Avec Sports to gain val­ue for mon­ey. He al­so promised that talks would have tak­en place with oth­er spon­sors.

Mean­while, the staff and coach­es of the foot­ball as­so­ci­a­tion have not been paid for four months and it is un­cer­tain when they will get salaries. Ro­mano said, "The com­mit­tee is mak­ing progress con­cern­ing this mat­ter, but it is be­ing done slow­ly but sure­ly."

He said, the Nor­mal­i­sa­tion is faced with ob­sta­cles in its way: "If the TTFA put all these ob­sta­cles in our path, it takes time to get around all the ob­sta­cles, while mak­ing sure that the mon­ey gets to the staff and not to cred­i­tors," he ex­plained.

The for­mer banker who was ap­point­ed along­side his chair­man Robert Hadad, a di­rec­tor at the HAD­CO Group of Com­pa­nies and At­tor­ney Judy Daniel on the nor­mal­i­sa­tion com­mit­tee, said they have been work­ing with a con­tin­gency plan to pay the staff but was not will­ing to say what it is.

The TTFA staff have been kept abreast with the set­backs be­ing faced by the Nor­mal­si­a­tion Com­mit­tee.

Ro­mano said that funds from the FI­FA must not be put at risk.

The nor­mal­i­sa­tion com­mit­tee which was ap­point­ed on March 27, has been in a le­gal bat­tle with the TTFA for the right to claim the as­so­ci­a­tion's bank ac­counts and let­ter­head.


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