
They're none other than Daryll (r) and Daryan Warner, sons of CONCACAF Chief Jack.
Daryan administered father Jack's elaborate ticket-scalping operation at the last World Cup, for which the FIFA Vice-President was found guilty of violating his own organisation's Ethics Code, but was not sacked. Daryan was fined, but you wouldn't know it from reading Daddy's ridiculous defence, which dominates the biography page of a sycophantic website set up to honour Saint Jack, e.g. "He's put his money where his mouth is" -!
Daryll controls the company withholding the Trinidad & Tobago players' bonuses for 2006, a battle still raging in the courts over three years later. Jack had promised the players 50% of their FA's revenue from the World Cup, around $1m each - but then offered them £500 instead! Then in 2007 the T&T government revealed the FA had made $174m before TV rights and gate receipts! Some players, including Dwight Yorke, settled last year for $186,000 out of court, but others, including Shaka Hislop, refuse to back down and continue to fight it out with the lawyers.
Meanwhile, his offspring lap it up in London, laughing all the way to the bank. Check out Daryll's Facebook pic if you're in any doubt how grand life is if your dad is the untouchable FIFA Vice-President!
-Sean O'Conor, London

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