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FIFA's website states that each football association "will receive eight per cent of all purchasable tickets in the stadium", while a TTFF release on December 14 said that "close to 4,500 tickets will be made available to the T&T Football Federation".



Yesterday, though, Warner said he had no idea how many tickets the country would receive and that the local body had not even applied for its allocation yet.



He claimed that the tickets Simpaul was offering at present were purchased from an unnamed "European tour operator".



Warner and his son refused to say how many tickets his company had acquired.



"I cannot see how that is anybody's business," said Warner. "Simpaul is a private company."



"Simpaul is not the TTFF and does not have to respond to you," Daryan added.



Warner also said that KPMG, and not Kenny Rampersad, was the TTFF's auditors.



He did not say whether Rampersad, whose company sold and accounted for match tickets among other tasks, was recently terminated or was never in their hire.



He criticised the Daily Express series for suggesting that "Kenny Rampersad is a director of Simpaul Travel", but the three-part series said no such thing.



Rather, the Daily Express article revealed that Rampersad was authorised to act on behalf of Simpaul on at least one matter and wondered if it were ethical for the accountant, like Warner, to have a dual role.



The connection between Warner's role as administrator and businessman and the price that Trinidad and Tobago fans must pay because of it was the point of my series.



Pity he felt that my imaginary links with the PNM and Arima Government Secondary were more relevant.