Jack Warner still won’t pay Soca Warriors their 2006 World Cup money
Within hours the report was leaked to the Trinidad Guardian whose sports editor has written two paid-for biographies of Warner that find no fault in him - ever.
Warner claimed to be shocked. The other side must have leaked! Such an outrageous breach of confidence must nullify the arbitration decision. So he still won’t pay and he still won’t disclose. To muddy the waters more Warner has offered some money to the Warriors who didn’t hire a lawyer and is going to court in Trinidad in January to get the arbitration award cancelled.
There’s not been a peep from sponsors Adidas, KFC, Ebay, Carib beer, British Gas and a host of regional companies who gained lustre from the efforts of the Warriors.
It will be a chilly Christmas for some of the Heroes of 2006.
And some more scandals from Jack Warner’s Caribbean empire
EARLIER this month Warner was awarded the title of Caribbean Awards Sports Icon at a ceremony in Kingston, Jamaica. According to Mr Al Hamilton MBE and the folk who chose Warner, (they also organise the Commonwealth Sports Awards) he is the outstandingly wonderful administrator of the region. It cannot possibly be because he is the wealthiest.
Warner, typically mean-mouthed, responded, ‘I’m gratified for this award because in my country an award like this to me is non-existent. I always admire Jamaica how they give respect to their sport persons. They are second to none in the Caribbean.’
One of the sponsors of the award is Caribbean mobile phone company Digicel – owned by Irish entrepreneur Denis O’Brien - which also does business with Warner’s football enterprises.
Maybe if they’d made due diligence inquiries they’d have discovered how he treats his players.
A LITTLE more due diligence would have revealed that Warner’s Trinidad & Tobago Football Federation has not filed any accounts for 2006 and 2007.
AND A couple of calls would establish that Warner uses filthy racist language against his critics.
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