By Andrew Warshaw
November 8 – Former Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) first vice-president Raymond Tim Kee looks set to be appointed the federation’s new President on Sunday (November 11) after the only other candidate Colin Murray pulled out.
Tim Kee (pictured top) served for over a decade before resigning from the executive board some three years ago and flatly denied his candidature was being supported by ex-FIFA vice-president Jack Warner, who critics allege ran the sport in Trinidad and Tobago autocratically before resigning over last year’s cash-for-votes scandal.
In a statement, Tim Kee urged those perpetrating such allegations to “refrain from trying to sully a reputation which I have worked hard to build”.
Murray did not give reasons for his decision to pull out but warned: “If I think he [Tim Kee] is playing politics with the football or if he ostracises people who have supported me, if I feel that he is trying to push any of them out of football and is not giving them a chance to be heard I will not support him and become his biggest critic.”
Lennox Watson has been interim TTFF President since the resignation of Oliver Camps over the bribery scandal that plunged Caribbean football into disgrace but Watson, too, withdrew his candidacy.
Murray said football administration in his country had to change to move forward.
“You look back on what has happened over the last few years and you really say to yourself, it was not all-inclusive, there has been basically a one-man show, and people have been stifled,” he said.
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