Trinidad & Tobago will not prevent Sunderland's Carlos Edwards and Kenwyne Jones from facing West Ham United this weekend.

Sunderland refused to release the duo for tonight's friendly international against Jamaica on medical grounds.

After Edwards (groin) and Jones (virus) were withdrawn, the club rejected a request from the Trinidad & Tobago Football Federation to have their conditions independently verified.

The T&TFF threatened to impose a Fifa sanction that would deny Sunderland use of the pair until five days after tonight's clash in Kingston.

Enforcement of the ruling would have prevented them from featuring in the crucial Barclays Premier League showdown against West Ham United on Saturday.

But according to Jack Warner, Fifa vice-president and T&TFF special adviser, agreement was reached following intervention from Roy Keane, the Sunderland manager, and Dwight Yorke, the former Trinidad and Tobago international.

Keane and Yorke, captain during Trinidad and Tobago's 2006 World Cup campaign, persuaded Warner to drop the threat.

"We are putting all that behind us," Warner said. "We won't invoke the Fifa regulation."

Sunderland sit just four points above the Premiership relegation zone, with seven game remaining.