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Re: Terry Fenwick Thread.
« Reply #1500 on: July 01, 2021, 08:21:24 AM »
What makes TF a " Trini?  - he appears to like:
- bacchanal
- boboll
- rachifee
-  being a badjohn
- being Basa basa
- being bragadacious
-being boldface
- rum
- Trini women
- playing politics
- running TTFA
- living in TnT
- working the system
- Liming with people of influence
- could sh..t talk after a game
- is an authority on most things especially on how to run  football in TnT
- doing ah little ting to get ah food
why don’t you climb off the man’s back and let him be? you’ve publicly paraded the man as a crook because of a measly 20,000 a month, you banged on his integrity you made a mockery of his family and now that he’s gone you’re back for more? I don’t know mate but if I didn’t know any better I would think that you have it in for terry just because he’s a white man and a british citizen, and if I’m right then you suck.

I don’t know what they teach you people up in canada, but most of you on this forum seem to be some discontented mad men who just loves annoying others with your nonsensical comments. Please leave mr fenwick alone, he’s gone and out of the picture so set your sights on angus or some other local bum and leave fenwick be, my goodness man.

Little sensitive- remember this forum is based on a cultural tradition of Trini ' ole talk'
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Re: Terry Fenwick Thread.
« Reply #1501 on: July 01, 2021, 01:14:25 PM »
What makes TF a " Trini?  - he appears to like:
- bacchanal
- boboll
- rachifee
-  being a badjohn
- being Basa basa
- being bragadacious
-being boldface
- rum
- Trini women
- playing politics
- running TTFA
- living in TnT
- working the system
- Liming with people of influence
- could sh..t talk after a game
- is an authority on most things especially on how to run  football in TnT
- doing ah little ting to get ah food
why don’t you climb off the man’s back and let him be? you’ve publicly paraded the man as a crook because of a measly 20,000 a month, you banged on his integrity you made a mockery of his family and now that he’s gone you’re back for more? I don’t know mate but if I didn’t know any better I would think that you have it in for terry just because he’s a white man and a british citizen, and if I’m right then you suck.

I don’t know what they teach you people up in canada, but most of you on this forum seem to be some discontented mad men who just loves annoying others with your nonsensical comments. Please leave mr fenwick alone, he’s gone and out of the picture so set your sights on angus or some other local bum and leave fenwick be, my goodness man.

Little sensitive- remember this forum is based on a cultural tradition of Trini ' ole talk'
You're either pulling too much or sucking too much stones
yeh sure you’re right about “ole talk”. no mate you went past ole talk a long time ago, now it’s in the region of malicious vindictive talk. it’s ole talk when you do it once twice three times, but when you chose to do a column on the man’s salary once a week for the past year……and even now that he’s fired and gone a month now yet you persist harping on the same bloody thing, then that’s personal IMO. it’s easy to play it down as ole talk when called on your bullshit, sure hide behind “ole talk”, but you ain’t fooling no one with your bigotry and xenophobia. you trinis are so full of it, always trying to act like the world starts and ends with you, yet you can’t even organize a living room without mucking it up.
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Re: Terry Fenwick Thread.
« Reply #1502 on: July 01, 2021, 04:18:34 PM »
What makes TF a " Trini?  - he appears to like:
- bacchanal
- boboll
- rachifee
-  being a badjohn
- being Basa basa
- being bragadacious
-being boldface
- rum
- Trini women
- playing politics
- running TTFA
- living in TnT
- working the system
- Liming with people of influence
- could sh..t talk after a game
- is an authority on most things especially on how to run  football in TnT
- doing ah little ting to get ah food
why don’t you climb off the man’s back and let him be? you’ve publicly paraded the man as a crook because of a measly 20,000 a month, you banged on his integrity you made a mockery of his family and now that he’s gone you’re back for more? I don’t know mate but if I didn’t know any better I would think that you have it in for terry just because he’s a white man and a british citizen, and if I’m right then you suck.

I don’t know what they teach you people up in canada, but most of you on this forum seem to be some discontented mad men who just loves annoying others with your nonsensical comments. Please leave mr fenwick alone, he’s gone and out of the picture so set your sights on angus or some other local bum and leave fenwick be, my goodness man.

Little sensitive- remember this forum is based on a cultural tradition of Trini ' ole talk'
You're either pulling too much or sucking too much stones
yeh sure you’re right about “ole talk”. no mate you went past ole talk a long time ago, now it’s in the region of malicious vindictive talk. it’s ole talk when you do it once twice three times, but when you chose to do a column on the man’s salary once a week for the past year……and even now that he’s fired and gone a month now yet you persist harping on the same bloody thing, then that’s personal IMO. it’s easy to play it down as ole talk when called on your bullshit, sure hide behind “ole talk”, but you ain’t fooling no one with your bigotry and xenophobia. you trinis are so full of it, always trying to act like the world starts and ends with you, yet you can’t even organize a living room without mucking it up.

ok it eh ole talk- so the truth hurts- go take yuh mate and have ah drink ah rum. If you have it out for Trinis why yuh eh go find ah british website and chill.

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Re: Terry Fenwick Thread.
« Reply #1503 on: July 02, 2021, 01:10:30 AM »
i'll do that as soon as you find a canadian website to talk your rubbish.

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Re: Terry Fenwick Thread.
« Reply #1504 on: July 04, 2021, 11:13:57 AM »
Falling-out blamed for failed programme: Bad Wolf Sports reeling after ‘Sunday Express’ exposé
By Denyse Renne (T&T Express)


Part III of an investigation into football scholarships in Trinidad and Tobago.

BAD WOLF SPORTS (BWS) managing director Perry Deakin has blamed a tussle between Police Commissioner Gary Griffith and fired coach Terry Fenwick over Griffith’s son not being allowed to play on the national team for the top cop’s decision to blank BWS’ scholarship programme.

Following publication of a Sunday Express investigation, headlined “Gary’s Bad Wolf”, on June 27, 2021, Deakin wrote Moorland Private School in the UK, stating, “...I believe we have been dragged into the middle of a significant ‘falling-out’ between Terry Fenwick and Commissioner of Police, Gary Griffith (it seems Terry did not bring his son on as a substitute for his first senior cap in a recent International and they have fallen out quite badly about it). I am absolutely livid that we are being embroiled in this, particularly as we had set out to make a genuine difference with the proposed programme which would impact positively upon youngsters in the region. Fortunately, I have significant written records regarding correspondence with FFF (Football Factory Foundation) and TTPS...”

Fenwick is BWS’ technical director as well as founder and director of FFF, a charitable sports organisation which billed the TTPS $995,000 for expenses related to Griffith’s 2019 Commissioner’s Cup football programme in T&T.

Eyebrows were raise when Gary Griffith III was named by Fenwick as part of the 23-man squad to travel to the Bahamas for a World Cup qualifier on June 5, 2021.

The young Griffith had barely a handful of competitive games in his career and did not have any caps for the T&T team.

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Deakin’s e-mail to Moorland noted he had been made aware of “an article over in Trinidad which attempts to paint the programme as ‘not genuine’ and/or ‘suspicious’”.

“BWS were engaged to explore the possibility of creating an ‘on-island’ programme for T&T youths which we could deliver without the need for the scholars to leave the island—Moorlands delivering edu­cational elements and The Football Factory Foundation delivering practical coaching...,” he wrote.

Deakin stated the scholarship concept had established interest among the business community in T&T, with businesses providing sponsorship to the TTPS which would then be diverted to the FFF, which would deliver coaching.

An ongoing Sunday Express investigation has revealed that BWS, which names Fenwick as its technical director, along with his business partners Deakin and Peter Miller, entered into an arrangement with Griffith and, by extension, the T&T Police Service earlier this year to create “and deliver on-island BTEC Sporting Scholarship Programmes (Levels 2 and 3) for identified and qualifying scholars across Trinidad and Tobago”.

To execute the BTEC programme, Bad Wolf Sports entered into a partnership with Moorland.

The TTPS Sports Club had wired £20,000 to Bad Wolf on May 11, 2021—but on June 1, a stop order was placed on the funds.

Responding to questions from the Sunday Express on June 12, Griffith said they (TTPS), “received a document from the University (Moorland) asking us to pay the funds through Bad Wolf. Not knowing who Bad Wolf was, the TTPS did its due diligence after which we decided to stop the payment”.

Moorland head teacher: No contact with TTPS

In an interview with the Sunday Express on June 30, Moorland head teacher and proprietor Jonathan Harrison indicated neither he nor any representative from the school had contacted the TTPS seeking a partnership.

Harrison’s recollection contradicts that made by Griffith who responded to questions sent by the Sunday Express via WhatsApp on June 12, stating he never had any interaction with Bad Wolf and the first time he heard of the company was via a letter from the “University of Moorland who wanted a football partnership with the TTPS”.

“We were approached by Moorland Private School with an offer of scholarships for players in the Commissioners Cup... I need to point out though that we never engaged or had any discussions with Bad Wolf Sports,” Griffith stated.

According to Harrison, Moorland School operates as an international coeducational day and boarding school “with transparency, integrity and honesty in the development of the whole child’s social, emotional, academic and sporting welfare”.

“The background from a Moorland School perspective, which can be fully supported via e-mail chains is that: Moorland School was approached by Bad Wolf Sports through a mutual acquaintance to work in partnership with The Football Factory Foundation, via Terry Fenwick, your National Football Manager and the Trinidad and Tobago Police Department, under the personal supervision of Commissioner Griffith.”

The head teacher explained the nature of this partnership was to provide opportunities for ­underprivileged youth in T&T, with Moorland offering online technical coaching and academic support to ensure children progressed through a BTEC Level 3 Sports Programme, which is equivalent to three English A-Levels.

“Moorland School would also provide additional English language and mathematical support to ensure that students met the qualification entry requirements,” he said.

As a gesture of good faith, Harrison explained Moorland was required to deposit “£12,000 into Bad Wolf Sports account, (which can be evidenced) to show commitment to the development of the programme and other sponsors would be brought to the table by Bad Wolf Sports, so that course delivery costs could be met”.

Harrison said, “I feel very upset that it would appear that the school has now lost £12,000 and certainly even more devastated that the school should be linked in any negative way to Trinidad and Tobago, as our reasons for becoming involved were genuine and supportive to the people of the island, as too were our intentions to make friends within the region. I certainly hope that in time something positive will be born out of a programme whose intended aims were to support youth development and promote opportunities within the young.”

We acted in good faith

Emphasising that Moorland School has acted 100 per cent in good faith, Harrison said Moorland “has received zero payments and zero uptake on the promised programme to date”, adding that “Bad Wolf Sports have communicated the cause behind the programme delay is a breakdown in relationships between Terry (Fenwick) and Police Commissioner Griffith”.

“I cannot personally comment as I have never spoken to either gentlemen and perhaps as the headteacher of Moorland School I have been a little naive and trusting as I have not conducted the usual diligence as the connection had been forged by a previously trusted associate.”

Pointing out that Moorland are the current regional and national champions of England, having produced many professional players, Harrison said the school currently educates over 20 professional Academy level players for clubs such as Manchester United and Manchester City FC.

Harrison also denied that football great Yaya Touré was in any way linked to the proposed programme.

Bad Wolf, in its proposal to Griffith, had indicated Touré along with Griffith would be ambassadors for the programme.
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Re: Terry Fenwick Thread.
« Reply #1505 on: July 04, 2021, 02:07:01 PM »
Falling-out blamed for failed programme: Bad Wolf Sports reeling after ‘Sunday Express’ exposé
By Denyse Renne (T&T Express)


Part III of an investigation into football scholarships in Trinidad and Tobago.

Business sponsorship

Deakin’s e-mail to Moorland noted he had been made aware of “an article over in Trinidad which attempts to paint the programme as ‘not genuine’ and/or ‘suspicious’”.

“BWS were engaged to explore the possibility of creating an ‘on-island’ programme for T&T youths which we could deliver without the need for the scholars to leave the island—Moorlands delivering edu­cational elements and The Football Factory Foundation delivering practical coaching...,” he wrote.

Deakin stated the scholarship concept had established interest among the business community in T&T, with businesses providing sponsorship to the TTPS which would then be diverted to the FFF, which would deliver coaching.
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Re: Terry Fenwick Thread.
« Reply #1506 on: November 08, 2021, 06:42:39 PM »
Exclusive Interview: Terry Fenwick
By James Rowe (secretfootballer.com)

JR  “Hi Terry, thanks so much for taking some time out to speak to me at TSF today.  Let’s go back to west London and Queens Park Rangers, not many people make over 250 appearances for one club…

TF “I have some wonderful memories from my time at Queens Park Rangers FC and I have to say that I went through quite a successful period at Crystal Palace before that under the great management of Terry Venables.  When Terry was sacked at Crystal Palace I was one of three players that he signed along with John Burridge and Mike Flanagan when he took over Queens Park Rangers FC.  We went from the old Division One into Division Two.  Queens Park Rangers FC were a very fresh and upcoming club under a very innovative Chairman, Jim Gregory.  He had a great personality but was a tough old boy with a sense of humour.

But he made a great decision bringing Terry Venables in, and the club really soared.  We narrowly missed out on promotion in Terry's first season and we reached the 1982 FA Cup Final where we took Tottenham Hotspur to a replay and really should have won the final.*

We achieved promotion as champions the following season to the old Division One and at the time I was captain of the club.  We were the top club in London for three out of five seasons. We were granite at the back and a typical Terry Venables team where everything was really well structured and organized, we were disciplined and we had some terrific players.  I played with top players such as Tony Currie who was an outstanding player, Gerry Francis, Clive Allen, Simon Stainrod, John Gregory and David Seaman.

Queens Park Rangers FC were seen as a smaller club in London in comparison to Arsenal FC and Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea FC who were not nearly as big as they are now.  We were probably the best team in West London with Fulham FC our neighbours.  We had a great little stadium at Loftus Road and a plastic pitch which was the first ever synthetic surface in Division One.  What an experience that was because it made you a better player across the board where your touch had to be impeccable and your passing and movement needed to be pinpoint.

It also made you better for when we played away from home on natural grass.  We were absolutely clinical in everything that we did and I remember former Chelsea FC manager Bobby Campbell once called us the mean machine because of how tightly organized and well-drilled we were.  We gave nothing up and everything was structured, we were a tough team to beat home and away.  I had a wonderful time at Queens Park Rangers FC and Terry Venables was an exceptional manager who was not just a great tactician, he was also a great man manager, and I think that was the key to it all.  I had a wonderful time at the Bush, great supporters and across the board we were a top team.”

JR  “Moving on to the other side of the world… you managed Trinidad and Tobago, how did that opportunity come up?”

TF  “Well the thing is there that it is a very different environment.  I will have been in Trinidad & Tobago for 22 years on 4th January 2022.  I came down here on the recommendation of Sir Bobby Robson and I recognized immediately that what they call the Pro League down here was nothing but a development league with ten teams.  I came 5th in my first season and got to know in and around what sort of players and what their abilities and mentality were.  In my second year I brought in loads of youngsters so that our team were all between 17 and 21 years old.  We won the league by a street and we were organized and disciplined.  I brought all the things that I had learned over my career into the team and it was something that they were not used to.  Other opponents were not nearly as fit and organized as us with players playing in proper positions whereby we were efficient with and without the ball and we pretty much cleaned up.

This was at a time of the infamous Jack Warner who in fact did a great deal for Trinidad and Tobago football but he was seen through different eyes internationally because of the problems and issues within FIFA around the world.  It is a different culture.  With Jack Warner things were structured and organized and he got sponsors which helped Trinidad & Tobago qualify for the 2006 World Cup in Germany under the tutelage of Leo Beenhakker who did an astonishing job.  He gave Trinidad and Tobago a huge springboard and opportunity to go forward but then the wheels came off with Jack and with FIFA.  He had not been able to leave the island since that period, one of his sons is housebound in Miami in the United States and he can’t move, and the family cannot move to see one another, it’s a real sad story but that was the game that Jack played.

Lots of money went adrift and corruption and FIFA was in a mess, football pretty much collapsed and the people that took over, did so for the wrong reasons.  They wanted to become the next Jack Warner rather than take the game to the next level and the unfortunate thing here in Trinidad & Tobago is that there is some amazing talent within the island, and indeed in the Caribbean region.  When you consider the players that have come through here including the Raheem Sterling’s and players of that caliber… but unfortunately they are wrapped up in a very political and corrupt system where the Caribbean nations are of no use or interest to FIFA really, but they carry the votes for the CONCACAF region, the second biggest voting pool behind UEFA.

How Jack Warner organized the 17 votes within the islands up and down the Caribbean made sure that whatever way USA, Canada and Mexico voted, he could overcome all of them by the fact that little islands such as Grenada, Barbados and Saint Kitts and Nevis were sufficient to keep the votes to keep him at the head of CONCACAF.

So unfortunately I have seen two very different sides of football within the Caribbean region.  But I have loved coaching here because it has been very basic and bare, I have started by bringing kids up from 15 through the development ranks and I have won the league with all the clubs that I have been at and qualified for the CONCACAF Champions League.  I’ve won domestic cups on the island too, but the game unfortunately has dwindled and it’s become about the individuals that are managing and looking after the administrative side, they are the stars of the show and unfortunately because of the corruption that has followed them it has had a terrible effect on the youngsters who are trying to come through and make a name in football.”

JR  “Tell me about playing for England.”

TF  “Well playing for England and playing for your country… my God!  I was seven when England won the 1966 World Cup and my favourite player was Sir Bobby Charlton who is from the North East of England, the same as me.  It was always top of my list to play for England, I did it, but it was not easy.  I played for England at youth and under 21 level and we were actually the first English team to win the European Championship under Dave Sexton and Terry Venables.  We had an excellent side and some wonderful players when I look back but out of that group apart from Sammy Lee there were not many of us that went on to play in the first Division.

I would have run through brick walls to achieve playing for England and it was never about money.  If you were any good at all and a top player in your position that was reflected in playing for your national team, I was so proud, it was incredible.  I have had some wonderful managers during my career, Malcolm Allison was the first and I could not believe that he flew from London as Crystal Palace manager up to the North East of England to watch a 15 year old Terry Fenwick play in a game on a terrible pitch in the pouring rain in County Durham, it blew me away.

He took me and my family to London and took us to a restaurant where I had the first steak I ever had in my life because I was from a coal mining community and everything was very poor.  It was such an incredible experience, he gave my Mum a chauffeur and 60 pounds to go and spend in Oxford Street while myself, my Dad and my brother went to watch Crystal Palace play and when my Mum came back she said quietly to my Dad don’t worry I have kept 55 pounds because my Dad did not make 60 pounds a month in his job working down the mines.

I had a tough and hard upbringing which was full of love.  I suffered very much as a youngster with asthma which made things difficult but I think that gave me the character I have shown all my career, I never give up on anything.  I was a tough competitor who always got on with things.  I took my knocks and gave knocks out and played the game hard and that helped me. Playing for England, as much as I was proud to do so, you recognized that you were playing for Bobby Robson as well. Everybody was putting themselves on the line for England and Bobby Robson.”

JR  “When I was researching for this interview I noticed that the list of players that you’ve played alongside reads like a who’s who of the best players England has ever produced, could you pick just one from the list?”

TF  “I will tell you who was the best player I ever played alongside, Paul Gascoigne.  For maybe three out of five years he was arguably the best player in the world.  He could do everything and then he had great ability, skill and no fear at all.  He had body strength and he was a little top heavy, the way he played and palmed people off… he would box them out the way, he was just an amazing player.  Mad as a March hare and as crazy as they come, but you had to respect as a footballer that he was the world's best.

When you look at him hurting himself badly in the 1991 FA Cup Final… it took him a long time to get over that and then he went to Italy and blew Italy away, he was the best player in Italy by a country mile playing for SS Lazio.  He did great things out there before returning to Great Britain with Rangers FC.  I just think that his off the field personality did not suit the actual world class player that he was, but Gazza… what a player!”

JR  “So many people in football are in agreement about Gazza.  In terms of who you’ve played against though, there’s another maverick whose name jumps off the page…”

TF  “Yes, Diego Maradona.  What was funny is that Bobby Robson said to me in the dressing room before the game at the Azteca Stadium at the Mexico 86 World Cup, “don’t worry Terry he’s only got one foot.”  I looked at Bob and he just started to smile, that’s what Bobby was like, he eased everyone up and before the game everybody felt confident and positive.  The obvious hand of God goal was handball.  I am still positive today that England had a better eleven than Argentina, but they had the best player in the world.

I don’t think Diego Maradona was coachable. He did whatever he wanted to do in the game regardless of who he played against, but then I am sure the other ten players were just told “whenever you get the ball give it to Diego and let him do his work.”  He was just incredible, what a player!  I tried to rough him up and God he was as solid as a rock.  I hit him once in the second half and he was off the pitch for four and a half minutes and to my amazement I saw him warming up on the side of the pitch ready to come back on, I was thinking, “my God what have I got to do to stop this man?”

He came on the pitch and the first thing he did was start talking to me saying that he had been roughed up all around the world playing for different teams, FC Barcelona and SSC Napoli, he must have taken his knocks but what an absolute genius with the ball.  It was like it was stuck to his left foot and he was as strong as an ox too.  What a personality, he came from a tough environment and upbringing where you had to take your knocks and move on and get on with life. Diego Maradona, what a player!”

JR  “You’ve mentioned Malcolm Allison and Sir Bobby Robson as great managers.  Tell me a little bit more about how coaching and management has influenced you."

TF  “In my youth development I probably had the best youth development coach in the country, a guy called John Cartwright who came from the West Ham United academy.  He went on to do great things for England and taught me how to play almost every position.  I played centre back for most of my career but if Terry told me that I had to play centre forward today, I could get on with it.  I could read the game and that is what these top coaches, Terry Venables in particular, and Malcolm Allison, did for you.  They had you thinking about the game first, and a lot of the players that I played with might not have been technically the best players but they could read the game and see what was coming next and react.

My early life as a footballer under these coaches was amazing because as I moved on in my football career and had different coaches, I could see the vast difference from the quality that I had with these guys.  Bobby Robson was one of your own.  We were both from the North of England and he was such a lovely man, he knew his football and he was a great man manager and an astonishing individual.  I am not sure if managers do this today James, but as England manager Bobby Robson would drive you mad during the week, he would be on the phone two or three times a week all through the season. It was not like you saw him when you turned up to play for England and he was touching base behind the scenes and going to games watching players and giving players information of how he could have dealt with things better for example.  It was just like “wow!”  That was the measure of the man and that was his man management.

Terry Venables took me from Crystal Palace to QPR and when I look back at my career, Terry Venables for me is the one coach that carries everything.  He had the man management skills although not quite the same as Bobby, but his expertise and excellence was his structure and organization and the little detailed things.  I learned from Terry to get the little things right and the bigger things will all fall into place, that is what football is about, the finer details where we would think “we missed that, we did not see this etc..” and it could be as simple as using the outside of your foot for that pass rather than your instep.

It might have been making that curved run instead of a straight run, little things that would pass you by, he would pull you on the training ground and go through it and then he would have you practicing.  That ensured that everybody got on the same page and everybody knew their position, if you were playing centre back and you ended up on the left wing you could play as a left winger because that is the coaching that came with it, and wherever you landed on that field of play you were comfortable receiving the ball and getting the ball and you knew what the next move was, he was tremendous.  Sir Bobby Robson and Terry Venables were the two best.  Terry Venables, my mentor."

* QPR lost the 1982 FA Cup final to Tottenham courtesy of a Glenn Hoddle penalty.
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Re: Terry Fenwick Thread.
« Reply #1507 on: January 14, 2022, 10:38:57 AM »
Falling-out blamed for failed programme: Bad Wolf Sports reeling after ‘Sunday Express’ exposé
By Denyse Renne (T&T Express)


Part III of an investigation into football scholarships in Trinidad and Tobago.

BAD WOLF SPORTS (BWS) managing director Perry Deakin has blamed a tussle between Police Commissioner Gary Griffith and fired coach Terry Fenwick over Griffith’s son not being allowed to play on the national team for the top cop’s decision to blank BWS’ scholarship programme.

Following publication of a Sunday Express investigation, headlined “Gary’s Bad Wolf”, on June 27, 2021, Deakin wrote Moorland Private School in the UK, stating, “...I believe we have been dragged into the middle of a significant ‘falling-out’ between Terry Fenwick and Commissioner of Police, Gary Griffith (it seems Terry did not bring his son on as a substitute for his first senior cap in a recent International and they have fallen out quite badly about it). I am absolutely livid that we are being embroiled in this, particularly as we had set out to make a genuine difference with the proposed programme which would impact positively upon youngsters in the region. Fortunately, I have significant written records regarding correspondence with FFF (Football Factory Foundation) and TTPS...”

Fenwick is BWS’ technical director as well as founder and director of FFF, a charitable sports organisation which billed the TTPS $995,000 for expenses related to Griffith’s 2019 Commissioner’s Cup football programme in T&T.

Eyebrows were raise when Gary Griffith III was named by Fenwick as part of the 23-man squad to travel to the Bahamas for a World Cup qualifier on June 5, 2021.

The young Griffith had barely a handful of competitive games in his career and did not have any caps for the T&T team.

Business sponsorship

Deakin’s e-mail to Moorland noted he had been made aware of “an article over in Trinidad which attempts to paint the programme as ‘not genuine’ and/or ‘suspicious’”.

“BWS were engaged to explore the possibility of creating an ‘on-island’ programme for T&T youths which we could deliver without the need for the scholars to leave the island—Moorlands delivering edu­cational elements and The Football Factory Foundation delivering practical coaching...,” he wrote.

Deakin stated the scholarship concept had established interest among the business community in T&T, with businesses providing sponsorship to the TTPS which would then be diverted to the FFF, which would deliver coaching.

An ongoing Sunday Express investigation has revealed that BWS, which names Fenwick as its technical director, along with his business partners Deakin and Peter Miller, entered into an arrangement with Griffith and, by extension, the T&T Police Service earlier this year to create “and deliver on-island BTEC Sporting Scholarship Programmes (Levels 2 and 3) for identified and qualifying scholars across Trinidad and Tobago”.

To execute the BTEC programme, Bad Wolf Sports entered into a partnership with Moorland.

The TTPS Sports Club had wired £20,000 to Bad Wolf on May 11, 2021—but on June 1, a stop order was placed on the funds.

Responding to questions from the Sunday Express on June 12, Griffith said they (TTPS), “received a document from the University (Moorland) asking us to pay the funds through Bad Wolf. Not knowing who Bad Wolf was, the TTPS did its due diligence after which we decided to stop the payment”.

Moorland head teacher: No contact with TTPS

In an interview with the Sunday Express on June 30, Moorland head teacher and proprietor Jonathan Harrison indicated neither he nor any representative from the school had contacted the TTPS seeking a partnership.

Harrison’s recollection contradicts that made by Griffith who responded to questions sent by the Sunday Express via WhatsApp on June 12, stating he never had any interaction with Bad Wolf and the first time he heard of the company was via a letter from the “University of Moorland who wanted a football partnership with the TTPS”.

“We were approached by Moorland Private School with an offer of scholarships for players in the Commissioners Cup... I need to point out though that we never engaged or had any discussions with Bad Wolf Sports,” Griffith stated.

According to Harrison, Moorland School operates as an international coeducational day and boarding school “with transparency, integrity and honesty in the development of the whole child’s social, emotional, academic and sporting welfare”.

“The background from a Moorland School perspective, which can be fully supported via e-mail chains is that: Moorland School was approached by Bad Wolf Sports through a mutual acquaintance to work in partnership with The Football Factory Foundation, via Terry Fenwick, your National Football Manager and the Trinidad and Tobago Police Department, under the personal supervision of Commissioner Griffith.”

The head teacher explained the nature of this partnership was to provide opportunities for ­underprivileged youth in T&T, with Moorland offering online technical coaching and academic support to ensure children progressed through a BTEC Level 3 Sports Programme, which is equivalent to three English A-Levels.

“Moorland School would also provide additional English language and mathematical support to ensure that students met the qualification entry requirements,” he said.

As a gesture of good faith, Harrison explained Moorland was required to deposit “£12,000 into Bad Wolf Sports account, (which can be evidenced) to show commitment to the development of the programme and other sponsors would be brought to the table by Bad Wolf Sports, so that course delivery costs could be met”.

Harrison said, “I feel very upset that it would appear that the school has now lost £12,000 and certainly even more devastated that the school should be linked in any negative way to Trinidad and Tobago, as our reasons for becoming involved were genuine and supportive to the people of the island, as too were our intentions to make friends within the region. I certainly hope that in time something positive will be born out of a programme whose intended aims were to support youth development and promote opportunities within the young.”

We acted in good faith

Emphasising that Moorland School has acted 100 per cent in good faith, Harrison said Moorland “has received zero payments and zero uptake on the promised programme to date”, adding that “Bad Wolf Sports have communicated the cause behind the programme delay is a breakdown in relationships between Terry (Fenwick) and Police Commissioner Griffith”.

“I cannot personally comment as I have never spoken to either gentlemen and perhaps as the headteacher of Moorland School I have been a little naive and trusting as I have not conducted the usual diligence as the connection had been forged by a previously trusted associate.”

Pointing out that Moorland are the current regional and national champions of England, having produced many professional players, Harrison said the school currently educates over 20 professional Academy level players for clubs such as Manchester United and Manchester City FC.

Harrison also denied that football great Yaya Touré was in any way linked to the proposed programme.

Bad Wolf, in its proposal to Griffith, had indicated Touré along with Griffith would be ambassadors for the programme.
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Terry Fenwick joins Durham City as a Celebrity Citizen
« Reply #1508 on: March 17, 2022, 04:35:44 PM »
Terry Fenwick joins Durham City as a Celebrity Citizen
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Durham City AFC today launched their “Celebrity Citizens” initiative as part of their strategy to re-engage with community sectors across the Durham County region.

“I am pleased to announce that local lad Terry Fenwick has agreed to join our team of Celebrity Citizens” said club chairman Chris Tanner.  “Terry was born in Seaham and recently told me he watched plenty of Durham City games as a boy”. Tanner added.

Fenwick was born in Seaham in 1959, and went on to make 455 appearances in the Football League for Crystal Palace, Queens Park Rangers, Tottenham Hotspur, Leicester City and Swindon Town.  He also made twenty appearances for England from 1984 to 1988, and represented the country at the 1986 FIFA World Cup.  He also embarked on a managerial career, with his most recent appointment being National Team coach of Trinidad and Tobago, where he has lived for over 20 years.

“I’m honoured and proud to be asked to be a part of this initiative by Durham City.  I know the club is working hard to re-establish themselves after some hard times, and I hope my input and relationship with club management will help The Citizens achieve” said Fenwick from his home in Trinidad.  “They’ve already booked me in to visit St. Cuthbert’s Hospice on my next trip home, and I look forward to that” Fenwick added.

The Celebrity Citizens initiative is designed to link the club with notable people of Durham County past and present.  Durham City AFC know that community engagement is an area where they must improve, and this is the first of many planned announcements of “new signings”.
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