HAVING GOT his own way for so long in the Caribbean, it appears the little guys have come out fighting against Fifa vice-president Jack Warner.

The Sunday Herald reported last week how Warner had instructed the tiny Antigua and Barbuda football association to hand over nearly £100,000 to meet undocumented expenses to discredited former official Chet Greene.

They were given until last Thursday to pay or they would be expelled from Fifa. However, Merv Richards - the president of the local association and brother of cricketer Viv - has called on Fifa to intervene and investigate and Antigua and Barbuda have been given a stay of execution.

Now Dominica have joined the protests. Warner wants to restore former national association president Patrick John to power in football on the island. John is also a former prime minister of Dominica who was forced to resign in 1979 when it was revealed his government was intending to trade illegally with South Africa. He was later jailed for 12 years for his part in an armed uprising.

Warner claimed that Dexter Francis, the current president of the Dominican FA, was incapable of running the association and last week flew into the island and imposed a "normalisation committee" to take control. Now Francis has gone where no football official has before, officially lodging a complaint with the head of Fifa's ethics committee, Lord Sebastian Coe.

Meanwhile, in six weeks' time, the secrets of the great Fifa bribery scandal will be laid bare in a Swiss courtroom.

Prosecutors in Zug have announced the timetable for the trial of six executives of failed sports marketing company ISL, who are accused of embezzling around £50 million in revenue from the marketing and TV rights to World Cups 2002 and 2006 they should have paid to Fifa. If found guilty they could serve up to four years in jail.

Despite his close relationship of nearly 30 years with the executives, Fifa president Sepp Blatter, had to report them to prosecuting authorities. He secretly tried to withdraw the case, but prosecutor Thomas Hildbrand stood firm. Since then Fifa funds have been used to try and get Hildbrand removed from the case.

Hildbrand has extracted information about the channelling of bribes to some of the Fifa officials who awarded the billion-dollar contracts to ISL. The indictment has details of some who took kickbacks and how the money was routed through offshore accounts.