Coaching School resume drive to 3rd title

CHAMPIONS St Clair’s Coaching School will get an early opportunity to exact revenge on 1976 FC Phoenix XS for their only defeat in football in the sister isle this season. The teams meet at the Canaan No. 2 ground on Wednesday, when second round action in the Warner’s Group of Companies-sponsored Premier Division of the Tobago Football Association Semi-Professional League resumes. Only on Tuesday last former holders Phoenix edged Coaching Shool 1-0 to grab third place in the Pepsi FA Cup. When league action was put on hold for the FA series at the end of first-round matches, however, two-time kings Coaching School held a commanding eight-point lead over second placed Sidey’s. Wednesday will be the fourth meeting of the teams this year, with Coaching School winning 3-1 in the Charity Cup seasonal opener, and 3-2 on July 25 in league competition.

Biwater Stokelyvale, with the FA Cup safely stashed away in their club house, will be at the Caanan No. 1 ground to face Pepsi Hills United, in their renewed assault on the league title. But they will be approaching this game with some caution, as Hills whipped The Vale 3-1 in the first round. Meanwhile, Phoenix striker Selvon Turner, Darren Toby (Coaching School) and Michael Carrington (Stokelyvale) head the league’s goalscorers with 11 each, followed by last season’s “golden boot” Curtis “Ghost” Job (Stokelyvale) on nine. Joel John and Jason Surrey, both of Bethel and Keon Yearwood (Coaching School) have scored seven goals each to date.