dat was in de days of the TTFA...ah hope allyuh realize all dem league buss up when the TTFF came around....allyuh remember when it used to have de Red Cross cup and interleague cup....de good ol days
Ful real, tallman or someone else, what were the exact changes that took place when TTFF cam einto existence, were the TTFA teams allowed to join? My history real fuzzy as at that pt. I saw meh side gehin mash up and ah jus culd not bodder wid de drama, kinda like a good few ah we rite now wid de politriks wid de senior squad.
As a yute growing up ah use to enjoy travellin de nation to watch ball players play, meh best memory is de 1-0 win vs Army in de mang (monkey goal) and de 6-0 thrashin of La Brea Angels also in de mang, college, yuh was on anyone of dese specific teams? If somebody culd post some ole time fotos dat wuld be sweet
Between 1974 and 1987, some 121 foreign teams visited Trinidad.
Some of these teams, ironically, were brought to the country by an organisation which the TTFA outlawed in 1981.
The body was called the Trinidad and Tobago Premier Soccer League (TTPSL) and it was the brainchild of businessman Arthur Suite. Inspired by good crowd support, Suite launched his league in March 1981, offering some $160,000 in prize money.
He also revealed that eight of the country’s top teams -
Challengers, Essex, San Fernando Strikers, Essex, HAS Cocorite United, CCI Falcons, Ebonites, and his team ASL Sports would play in its first season.
The TTPSL then applied to the TTFA for associate membership which was promptly denied.
Warner suggested that the organisation was turning back the clock by centralizing the sport in Port of Spain. He stated that the League’s constitution was unacceptable and argued that under FIFA rules, it was a proprietary league and could not be entertained. He immediately banned all players, officials and others associated with the league from any relatiohsip with the governing body.
The teams which stayed in the TTFA’s National League were
Defence Force, Memphis, Tesoro, Palo Seco, Police, Tarouca Utd, Maple, Malvern, Point Fortin Civic Centre, TESCA, Peterborough, Benefica, Telcos, Fulham, Jabloteh, Forest Reserve Police and Tesoro.
The following year, the TTPSL amended its constitution to come in line with the requirements of FIFA and were granted affiliate status by the TTFA.
Now called the Carib Professional league, it had grown from eight to twelve teams:
BWIA ASL Sports , Strikers, Malvern, Memphis, Ebonites, Police, Modniks, Falcons, ECM Motown, Challengers, Essex and Cocorite United.The TTFA competition which was called the Stag National Football league comprised 16 teams as follows:
Jabloteh, Forest Reserve Estate Police, Maple, Defence Force, Palo Seco, Point Fortin Civic Centre, Leeds United , Tacarigua Utd, Caroni, Fulham, Peterborough, Concordians, Barataria Ball Players, Texaco, Benefica and Telcos.
And on December 8, 1983, an agreement was reached for one body - the Trinidad and Tobago Football league (TTFL) to replace the two rival leagues.
The new league included the top five teams from both PSL and NSL and were joined by the National Under 21 team for the season:
BWIA ASL Sports Club, ECM Sports, Malvern, HAS Cocorite, KFC Memphis (PSL) and Defence Force, Tacarigua United, Forest Reserve Estate Police , Leeds United and Tesoro Palo Seco (NFL).On January 14, 1985, Suite launched the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF). The Association responded by declaring the organisers persona non grata with its president Peter O Connor stating: “They can do it but they will not be part of international football.’ The TTFF was a direct rival to the Association and attempted to compete with it by playing a zonal competition instead of the national league. ASL won the north zone but there was none of the interest of the past years. Defence Force, as was expected dominated the TTFA’s National league
