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Sunderland Stars Edwards And Jones Will Face West Ham
Wednesday 26 March 2008 at 17:30  Sunderland's Carlos Edwards and Kenwyne Jones will both be available to play in Sunday's Premier League clash with West Ham.
Manager Roy Keane refused to release the pair to Trinidad and Tobago (TandT) for tonight's friendly international against Jamaica on medical grounds, and must have feared that TandT would invoke Fifa sanctions to block them playing until five days after the Wednesday international.
However, Edwards (groin) and Jones (virus) have both now been declared fit to play, and will not be prevented from doing so by their country.
Sunderland are favourites to win the premiership clash, with best odds of 11/8 available from Totesport, Boylesport and Sky Bet. West Ham beat The Black Cats 3-1 last time round, and the best odds of them completing a double are 40/17, from Expekt.com.
The situation had threatened to boil over when Sunderland rejected a request from the TandT Football Federation to have the players' conditions independently verified.
But Keane and former Trinidad and Tobago captain Dwight Yorke managed to persuade advisors from the country's governing body not to pursue the matter any further.
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