The final match of Fabio Capello's first season as England manager is in jeopardy after a dispute between the Trinidad & Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) and its Government over stadium rental charges.

The game, which is scheduled to take place a week on Sunday, is part of an 11-day training camp that Capello has organised so he can work with an extended group of 30 players. There will be a match at Wembley Stadium against the United States on Wednesday followed by the trip to play Trinidad & Tobago in Port of Spain, which the England manager believes is vital for the development of his World Cup squad. Until now, he has had no more than three days with the players at one time.

Now the second part of that plan is in the balance, with Jack Warner, the Fifa vice-president and special adviser to the TTFF, threatening to take Gary Hunt, the Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs, to court over demands for a rental fee of $200,000 (about £100,000) for use of the Hasely Crawford Stadium on June 1. The federation claims that previous matches have been put on there for a payment of $5,000.

FA officials expressed surprise at the developments yesterday and said that it was in the dark about whether the match would take place. “We have not been advised of any change,” a spokesman said. “Until we can find more information, we can only proceed as normal.”

Yet Warner's stance is hardly conciliatory and this is the latest in a series of fallouts with government officials. A qualifying tournament for the under-17 women's World Cup was scheduled to be held in Trinidad and Tobago in July, but a back-up host venue is being sought after another dispute between Warner and Hunt.

The meeting with England is to celebrate a century of football on the islands and all tickets have been sold, but Warner claims that the Government has reneged on an agreement struck on March 15 that the stadium would be available at the usual rate. With the stadium full to its capacity of 23,000 for this match, there is no chance of using a smaller venue, such as Queen's Park Oval.

Om Lalla, an attorney working for the TTFF, has given Hunt until tomorrow to resolve the issue or he will be taken to court and Warner said: “If I don't win, the match is off and we would give people their money back. For me, enough is enough. We have 23,000 tickets sold and the Oval cannot hold that number. The minister knows that and he believes he has me over a barrel, but if I lose I would prefer to refund the money rather than pay for this stadium. He cannot put my back to the wall like this, so I am going after him. This is the most vindictive minister ever and he shall pay.”

This development is a huge embarrassment for Capello's employers at the FA, too, with the match already a divisive one, in the light of recent claims against Warner over World Cup payments to Trinidad & Tobago players and World Cup ticket sales. A controversial figure, Warner paid Trinidad's 2006 World Cup squad a bonus of £498 per player, when government officials placed the income from the tournament at £13.86 million. He was also implicated in a ticket scandal, with Fifa's executive committee expressing disapproval that tickets allocated to Trinidad & Tobago were sold in packages by a company run by Warner's son, Daryan. Yet as a Fifa vice-president, Warner is one of the most influential figures in world football and the FA has been desperate for his approval since electing to bid for the 2018 World Cup finals.

It is no secret that England's mission to Port of Spain is heavily influenced by Fifa politics and if no resolution between the TTFF and the Government can be reached, some suspect that the FA will make up the difference.

With arrangements in chaos, however, Capello is likely to be unhappy if one of the rare opportunities to work with his players falls apart because of the unsuitability of hosts chosen by little more than realpolitik.