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« on: March 28, 2009, 12:44:35 PM »
It has been said over and over that timing is everything and that is what made Arthur Suite's intervention into the football arena memorable. The vision he had for football in T&T is having it's living reality today. Football was not at the level it could have been so he introduced a league which brought players with skill, purpose and a lot more added to the forefront. It was a community thing with all converging on the PSA grounds to see the best at the time. The standard and quality of football and football players just went from 2 to 8. It happened overnight it would seem.
There are names that still hang around from that era like Spann, La Forest and others that are bound to be mentioned when we talk about football development in T&T. It was not then, and will never be a dying sport. Arthur capitalized on a non-functioning TTFF league and brought a life to the game that was important and very well perhaps unprecedented. Hence the reason why it was not sanctioned by FIFA.
Jack Warner's birth into the control of football emerged then and we are reaping the rewards today. What he did by preventing the league from prospering cannot be forgotten. Incidentally he, Jack, is the only man with the kind of vision for football in T&T today. How ironic that is, even though it is to fill his pockets.
Arthur Suite could have achieved much more but what he did to stabilize football and bring attention to players with real class who could have been exposed to the world stage cannot be forgotten. It was a really lively and extensively attractive time for football then.