T&T football on a slippery slope
Alvin CornealPublished: Sunday, June 28, 2015I decided to take a close look at the FIFA rankings before I tried to seek some form of reasoning for our national team being in the present state of...
View ArticleChallenging days in South America
Alvin CornealPublished: Wednesday, July 1, 2015Any trip to South America to participate in the game of football has always been an exciting experience to me and the group of young players from my...
View ArticleVictory over Haiti was a good
Alvin CornealPublished: Thursday, July 9, 2015Of course it is! This Haiti team performed very well in the Gold Cup qualifying series in Jamaica and was boosted by the addition of its French-based...
View ArticleNo more ‘minnows’ at the Gold Cup
Alvin CornealPublished: Friday, July 10, 2015At the Gold CupThe picture looks impressive in the early stages of the Concacaf Gold Cup. From the previous tournament held in 2013, it appears as though...
View ArticleA postive start to Soca Warriors campaign
Alvin CornealPublished: Saturday, July 11, 2015Yes, it was really a very exciting start of the 2015 Concacaf Gold Cup for Stephen Hart and his team. The joy of the victory is much more than we all...
View ArticleThe victory road continues for Warriors
Alvin CornealPublished: Wednesday, July 15, 2015To say that I did not expect a good result against Cuba would be incorrect, if only because they were recently humiliated by Mexico. But of course,...
View ArticleHopes high in hunt for gold
Alvin CornealPublished: Friday, July 17, 2015At the Gold CupThere shall be numerous adjectives to describe the performances of T&T and Mexico, especially as the result of their Gold Cup game on...
View ArticleDefeat is sometimes an important lesson
Alvin CornealPublished: Thursday, July 23, 2015Some folks do not even like to call kicking of penalties in a football game to decide the result as a defeat.Unfortunately, the current law pertaining to...
View ArticleJamaica’s big day in football
Alvin CornealPublished: Sunday, July 26, 2015At the Gold CupJamaica deserve to be in the Gold Cup final for more reasons than one. When it started its qualification through the CFU finals in Montego...
View ArticleThe Red Steel’s brilliant success
Alvin CornealPublished: Sunday, August 2, 2015Whether we like Twenty20 cricket or not, it has the entertainment value to frequently bring crowds to their feet. I will admit that being an old stager, it...
View ArticleThe essential discussions about WI Cricket
Alvin CornealPublished: Thursday, September 3, 2015Nothing ever goes smoothly with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) in recent times, regardless of how insignificant the issue may be. We could...
View ArticleThe march to Russia begins for Warriors
Alvin CornealPublished: Friday, September 4, 2015This is the start of a journey which this country has travelled before, hoping that our senior footballers can get used to evading the humps along the...
View ArticleAnother impressive start for Warriors
Alvin CornealPublished: Tuesday, September 8, 2015National Sports Award RecipientThe joy of seeing our national coach (Stephen Hart) punch the sky as his players produced the results which he wanted so...
View ArticleIs Pro League benefiting from Concacaf League?
Alvin CornealPublished: Sunday, September 27, 2015The answer is basically in the positive, only because it invites our club teams to enjoy the environment of playing away as opposed to home. It also...
View ArticlePhil followed the guilty ones
Alvin CornealPublished: Wednesday, September 30, 2015It was only Friday last that I had mentioned to the president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) that the unethical behaviour of all the...
View ArticleWarriors’ victory a priority
Alvin CornealPublished: Wednesday, October 7, 2015The die has actually been cast, and the race to the 2018 World Cup is now on the way, where every step must be a forerunner to those ahead.Our trip to...
View ArticleCautious Warriors need to score goals
Alvin CornealPublished: Wednesday, October 21, 2015Nicaragua came to the Hasely Crawford Stadium for the first time with the expectation of getting some experience playing against a Caribbean styled...
View ArticleAll eyes on football and cricket
...as the battle for leadership loomsAlvin CornealPublished: Wednesday, October 28, 2015This country has become so engrossed in the bacchanalia of elections, thanks to the excitement and Mauve Lange...
View ArticleWhy are we surprised by Windies two defeats?
Alvin CornealPublished: Sunday, November 1, 2015I suppose that if anyone used the phrase “I told you so” with reference to the results of our West Indies cricket team’s two Test matches against Sri...
View ArticleRoad to Russia World Cup begins
Alvin CornealPublished: Friday, November 13, 2015It seemed almost like yesterday that the Germans were showing the world how good they are on the football field. The years leading up to the finals in...
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