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Football / Re: Caribbean Premier League Thread

« on: November 10, 2013, 09:28:46 AM »

I don't like the look of this. From what I can see, it's one guy (Chris Anderson) setting up a website, Twitter and Facebook account with a few friends. I don't know the man (one source says he's a former Trinidad player who played in Europe?) but I've done some research on Google, he's the Chief Financial Officer of "+One" a sportswear company that imports sportswear goods from Asia and whose website has a photoshopped office building.

It's not affiliated with CONCACAF, it's an opportune press release looking to set tongues wagging. It's worded in such a way to give the impression that it has CONCACAF's support because Jeeffrey Webb wants to establish a Caribbean league: "This announcement comes after support (as it relates to the concept and structure) was garnered from both the President of CONCACAF Mr. Jeffery Webb and the President of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Gordon Derrick, along with other heads of regional Associations/Federations."

All the statement says is  'this league could work if someone give us $3m USD per annum'.

It's nothing more than a distraction.

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Football / Re: The Jack Warner Thread.

« on: October 21, 2013, 08:46:06 PM »

What happened with the election?

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Football / Re: Zamora's next stop - T&T.

« on: October 07, 2013, 04:39:38 PM »

He has played in two friendly games for England, still eligible for T&T. You guys still interested?

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Football / Re: Is Lasana Liburd a journalist or a pen with a vendetta?

« on: July 12, 2013, 02:53:20 PM »

You brought a two year old thread up to say that no one cares to read his articles?

The 13 year win-less streak is interesting.

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Football / Re: The Jack Warner Thread.

« on: July 12, 2013, 07:54:26 AM »

http://www.wired868.com/2013/07/11/chaguanas-conspiracy-warner-fears-one-way-ticket-to-usa/

http://www.wired868.com/2013/07/11/chaguanas-conspiracy-warner-fears-one-way-ticket-to-usa/

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Football / Re: Spoke To Dennis Lawrence Yesterday

« on: July 11, 2013, 01:27:51 PM »

http://www.evertonfc.com/evertontv/home/9117

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Football / Re: Spoke To Dennis Lawrence Yesterday

« on: July 11, 2013, 11:10:52 AM »

http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archive/2013/07/11/lawrence-joins-backroom-team

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Football / Re: Spoke To Dennis Lawrence Yesterday

« on: July 09, 2013, 05:52:08 AM »

So, what can Dennis Lawrence bring to Everton ?

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Football / Re: Big up to Chuck Blazer.

« on: May 06, 2013, 06:21:21 PM »

That AP release is irritating. It doesn't tell the story

Reuters 19 April 2013:

The call, from several delegates from the floor of the congress, was backed by CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb who said he would not want to share a platform with Blazer at the FIFA congress.

"You heard the views of the membership in congress. Mr Blazer is still part of the game and he is still elected until May 30 until the new member is installed at the congress," he told reporters.

"In a personal capacity I would take it very hard after receiving this from the Integrity committee to sit there in front of the world, on the world stage with him as a member of the FIFA executive committee in front of congress."

Today he was banned from attending the FIFA Congress on 30 May, no more or no less.  He's leaving the position anyway, there was no need to suspend him - it is FIFA/CONCACAF keeping him away.

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Football / Re: What did Jack say about the 2006 Soca Warriors last night?

« on: April 26, 2013, 01:01:29 PM »

Here is the speech and documents: https://t.co/scFl2iHqPP

Only time 2006 came up was when he was blowing his own horn for T&T qualifying in 2006.

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Football / Re: Centre of Excellence questions.

« on: April 22, 2013, 07:52:18 AM »

So in a nutshell...

There are three parcels of land that the COE is built on. Jack Warner owns all of these.
He was able to buy them with funds from grants

FIFA and CONCACAF paid the money for the COE.
The asset was then mortgaged against by JW.
FIFA pay the mortgage.

In 2009, JW's son as Caribbean development officer ordered FIFA to lay a new pitch.
In 2010, the Australian FA paid $450k+ to JW (the bank account was in the name of CONCACAF, but was a personal account) to upgrade the Marvin Lee stadium. The funds were misappropriated.

Is that it? I'm having problems understanding where the land money came from.

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Football / Re: Jack dimisses Concacaf probe PM STUNNED

« on: April 20, 2013, 02:32:16 AM »

Did you guys see that Damien Hughes of the CFU wants to make the CFU more transparent, he wants to publish financial reports etc. He said that it's the first time results have been made public and that under Jack Warner, even members of the CFU couldn't see the financial results.

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Football / Re: The Jack Warner Thread.

« on: December 11, 2012, 07:38:13 PM »

Not to be confused with:



Bra-man.

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Football / Re: The Jack Warner Thread.

« on: December 11, 2012, 06:56:09 PM »

Brahman - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Antigua Game (9-Dec-2012)

« on: December 08, 2012, 02:44:40 AM »

tnt tnt tnt tnt tnt tnt tnt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR30knJs4Xk

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Football / Re: T&T’s Caribbean Cup campaign live online

« on: December 06, 2012, 07:03:45 PM »

That Stream won't work.

www.caribbeanfootball.org is not a valid website - you can buy that domain as it is available for purchase.

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Football / Re: Thread for the 2012 Caribbean Cup Finals.

« on: December 06, 2012, 08:35:02 AM »

Sorry guys, but the competition has descended into a farce before it began..

No sponsor has been found
The CFU head moved it to his own nation despite Antigua saying they'll struggle to support and afford it.
The competition groups were changed to suit one of the CFU Exec Members after the draw had taken place
From media point of view, CFU website has not been updated in over a year and the squads have yet to be published a day before the competition begins.
Also, there's been no news on television broadcasts!

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Football / Re: Jeffrey Webb working on a Caribbean Super League

« on: October 29, 2012, 05:21:19 AM »

It lasted three years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_Professional_Football_League

The only people who made money out of it were the CFU

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Football / Jeffrey Webb working on a Caribbean Super League

« on: August 18, 2012, 07:09:06 AM »

From:
http://futbolboricua.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/jeffrey-webb-habla-de-enfocarse-en.html

Una liga Caribeña profesional y buscamos entre 8 a 10 clubes en la región que elevarán el nivel de juego a un nuevo nivel. Claro está, tenemos algunos equipos, como el Antigua Barracuda, los Puerto Rico Islanders, jugando en ligas estadounidenses. Pero en realidad, debemos buscar desarrollar nuestra propia liga, y esto es una colaboración entre CONCACAF y la CFU que debemos trabajar.

Translated to English:

For a professional Caribbean league, we need 8 to 10 clubs in the region to raise quality of play to a new level. Of course, we have some teams like Antigua Barracuda and the Puerto Rico Islanders playing in the American leagues. In actuality, we are developing the new league, it's a collaboration between CONCACAF and the CFU - we must work together.

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Football / CFU alter Caribbean Cup qualifying groups

« on: August 04, 2012, 04:59:05 PM »

The draw for the Carribean Cup qualifying group was originally made in March.. now the CFU have altered it and moved teams around to other groups and have offered no reasons for doing so.

Suriname's FA (the only FA I've found to speak of it) are not very happy about it. Their president Louis Giskus says that the post-Warner CFU is "no improvement" and that the new group will cost them more financially to take part.

Link: http://www.natiosuriname.com/2012/07/svb-ontstemd-over-onbegrijpbare.html (Dutch language)