DAYS before Trinidad and Tobago are scheduled to defend the Shell Caribbean Football Cup, the national team is threatening to strike unless retroactive benefits are paid up.

SECOND-placed Trinidad and Tobago face two tough return World Cup qualifying matches later this year but should be prepared for their opponents Guatemala and the United States, says national football coach Everald Cummings.

SECRETARY of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) Jack Warner has admitted responsibility for excess printing of tickets for the deciding CONCACAF zone World Cup qualifying match here four months ago.

Trinidad and Tobago won the first Shell Caribbean Cup football tournament with a dramatic 2-1 victory over Grenada at the National Stadium here on Sunday.

NEWS THAT the General Council of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) is undertaking an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the holding of the November 19 game between this country and the USA with special reference to the ordering, purchasing, and accounting for tickets and passes, is a move in the right direction.

The United States crept one step closer to the 1986 World Cup finals tonight with a 2-1 victory over Trinidad and Tobago in a qualifying match before a crowd of 15,823 at Busch Stadium.

IN PORT OF SPAIN yesterday everyone was seeing red because the Americans were coming. The front-page headline in the Daily Express declared it a "red dawn" and the arrivals hall at Piarco airport was decked out in red banners with posters of the nation's heroes prominently displayed.

Canada's national soccer team, now preparing for the Confederation of the North, Central American and Caribbean zone football associations World Cup playoff in Honduras at the end of the month, beat Trinidad and Tobago 4-2 on Wednesday.