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Al­le­ga­tions of match-fix­ing in lo­cal foot­ball for the past few years are fi­nal­ly un­der the FI­FA radar.

Word from T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League’s Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer, Yale An­toine, and Gor­don Pierre, the Cale­do­nia AIA ex­ec­u­tive mem­ber, con­firmed yes­ter­day that FI­FA of­fi­cials are in the coun­try and have con­duct­ed in­ter­views with play­ers on the mat­ter. Nei­ther could say who the mem­bers of the sport’s world gov­ern­ing body are but ex­plained that, due to the on­go­ing con­cerns of match-fix­ing here, they (FI­FA mem­bers) would have ar­rived here se­cret­ly to con­duct in­ves­ti­ga­tions with­out any­one know­ing.

Al­le­ga­tions of match-fix­ing have rocked lo­cal foot­ball at the top-flight Tier 1 and Tier 2 lev­els, but de­spite the mat­ter be­ing raised in var­i­ous quar­ters of the foot­ball fra­ter­ni­ty, the is­sue has been swept un­der the car­pet.