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Tickets for Saturday's World Cup playoff between Trinidad &Tobago and Bahrain will be available in Tobago from noon today.


This is the word coming from Grenville Nicholson of Sport Tobago, a company which has been given the task of distributing 600 tickets in the sister isle.

In response to concerns yesterday about about the availability of tickets in the sister isle, Nicholson said:

"I really don't understand the big uproar over tickets." "We were able to get 600 ground tickets ($100) from the TTFF (Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation) and we put them in a $200 package.

The package consists $50 for the round trip to Tobago, $100 for the ticket, $50 for a jersey which says Tobago supports the Warriors; and we are also throwing in a wrist band an any other memorabilia that we have such as a miniature flag."

"I am not making any money of this. I am doing this as a service to Tobago, because I am one of those people that feel in certain things, Tobago is often disadvantaged.," Nicholson said.

The Tobago entrepreneur said that prior to putting the tickets on sale, he had marketed them on Tobago's Radio Tambrin and that they were available for sale on at the Tobago Port near SWIMCOL's office and also at Store Bay, Wally's Gallery restaurant.

Nicholson said that it was his intention to sell all 600 tickets and Sport Tobago had pre-sold some to interested parties, who were further told to return today to get their hands on the tickets.

"Right now, the tickets are still in the hands of Jack Warner, but they will be available from 12 o'clock today," he said.

Meanwhile, Peter O'Connor, the marketing manager of the World Cup Local Organising Company said he could not shed much light on the sale of tickets in Tobago, but nevertheless endorsed Nicholson.

"He has worked in sport all his life. He has also worked with us for a long time and he is a past member of the Football Federation in Tobago .

He is very competent to handle those things," O'Connor said.