Footballers arrive in London minus luggage

Following the 3-1 loss to Mexico on Wednesday, several of Trinidad and Tobago’s  overseas-based professionals returned to the United Kingdom. However they had to board a British Airways flight in Tobago as the BWIA London flight from Piarco had been cancelled due to Hurricane Ivan. Then on reaching England, Birmingham City striker Stern John, Dundee duo Brent Sancho and Kelvin Jack, Marvin Andrews, Kenwyne Jones, Andre Boucard, Dennis Lawrence, Clayton Ince and Jason Scotland were all told that their luggage had been left behind in Tobago and that it  would arrive over the weekend. “It was not good news for us because having had to rush back here some of us had no luggage and were missing our boots and so on.

I had to purchase a new one for the match against Celtic on Saturday but say what, that’s all in the experience,” Sancho said. Coach Bertille St Clair meantime will be hoping to get his players back on track and have scheduled his resumption of training with a squad of locally based professionals next Monday at the Hasely Crawford Stadium at Mucurapo. Players called for training from 5.30 pm: Angus Eve, Durance Williams, Nigel Pierre, Kerry Baptiste, Stokely Mason, Keyeno Thomas, Michael Celestine, Aurtis Seaton, Cyd Gray, Josh Johnson (Jabloteh),  Jerren Nixon (North East Stars), Densil Theobald, Conrad Smith (Arima Fire), Jan Micheal Williams, Silvio Spann, Atiba Charles (W Connection), Anton Pierre, Kevon Carter, Addison Belfon (Defence Force), Derek King and Marlon Rojas (Joe Public).