Blackheart fixtures released…but
No clear favourite this year

last year's champions Dennery manager (red tie) recieving the Archie Maurez trophy from Cuthbert Didier General Manager of the Rodney Bay Marina

CASTRIES, Saint Lucia – The organizers for this year’s Blackheart/Kashif and

Shanghai Knockout Football Tournament has released the fixtures, which kicks

off this coming Sunday May 18 2008, at the Beausejour Cricket Ground.

The tournament commences with the official opening ceremony from 3:00 p.m.,

inclusive of the colourful march-pass of teams, followed by the various speeches

by officials from Blackheart Productions, Kashif and Shanghai Organisation, and

the many sponsors.

When attention is turned to the action, Canaries and Roseau will have the

distinction of kicking of this year’s action, with the opening game.

Game number two features Gros-Islet and the Castries All-Stars in a clash, which

surely according to the pundits, “raise the temperature”.

These two games decide which of the two teams goes through to the second

round, along with the winners of the other games, which will be played at the

George Odlum National Stadium in Vieux-Fort.

South-east Castries and Micoud will clash from 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday May 20 in

the first game of a double-header, and in the second match, it will be Mon Repos

taking on Laborie.

Marchand and Vieux-Fort north will clash from 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday May 21,

and from 8:00 p.m., it will be Vieux-Fort south and Anse-la-Raye doing battle.

Mabouya Valley and La Clery will be going at each other on Friday May 23 from

6:00 p.m., and from 8:00 p.m., Dennery and South Castries will bring the curtains

down on the first round action at the George Odlum Stadium.

Sunday May 25, and Wednesday May 28, will be quarterfinal action at the

Beausejour Cricket Ground, with the semi-finalists clashing on Friday May 30, at

the same venue form 6:00 p.m.

The Grand Finals will take place on Sunday June 1, 2008, before which will be

played the third place play-off between the losing semi-finalists.

Meanwhile football analyst Tennyson Glasgow has said that there is no clear

favourite has been identified in this year’s tournament.

Last year he pointed, out that Dennery would have emerged champions, on that

he was correct but as he said in a radio interview on the Morning Rumble on

Radio Caribbean International this morning, “I cannot pick a front runner.”

As reasons, he gave the preparation of teams this year, along with an even

stronger desire to win this year’s EC$15,000.00 first place price, the Archie

Maurez Trophy, replicas for each team members, and bragging rights as district

football champions of Saint Lucia.