Officials of the Government and the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation are heading for another showdown.
The ministry propose to increase the size of the Minister’s Box from 28 seats to 58, which they claim was included in the unsigned rental agreement between the Hasely Crawford Stadium and TTFF for the match against the USA on November 14.
But the TTFF through secretary Richard Groden in reply indicated their “profound disappointment” over the ministry’s persistence, as “landlord”, to impose upon the TTFF the allocation of seats in excess of 24 allotted.
Groden’s letter indicated to the ministry, as far as the TTFF are concerned there is no agreement for an extension of seating arrangements form 24 to 58, “and accordingly your increase for tickets is hereby rejected.”
The TTFF told the ministry “in spite of your return of our 20 tickets issued to the minister - we have already issued Mr Hasely Crawford his four tickets - we are not prepared to accept any invitation for any seats in excess of those allocated by my federation to the ministry.”
And Groden said the TTFF “interpret your attempts to increase the allocation of seats as nothing short of an abuse of power, on the part of your ministry, a conduct which is fast becoming characteristic of the ministry.”