Pro League to pause in July

THE 2003 season of the T&T Pro League will be suspended in July, in anticipation of Trinidad and Tobago’s participation at the CONCACAF Gold Cup in the USA and Mexico.

Caribbean Football Union secretary Harold Taylor made this disclosure yesterday, at a  luncheon with the national football team at Le Sportel Inn, Dr Joao Havelange Centre of Excellence, Macoya, Tunapuna. But Taylor was quick to note that the team had to put their best foot forward in order to secure one of two final spots next week in Martinique. Trinidad and Tobago will face hosts Martinique and Honduras in a three-team play-off next week. Also attending the luncheon was former English Premiership striker Garth Crooks of Tottenham Hotspur, whose career spanned from 1977-1990.

In a brief address to the national squad, Crooks told the players “I want to wish you well and good luck in your two games.” Crooks is currently an announcer at the BBC Sports Service. The stocky Crooks was personally invited by CONCACAF president Jack Austin Warner to deliver the feature address at tomorrow’s Joe Public Football Club end-of-season awards, also at the Centre of Excellence.