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Football / Re: 2023 Concacaf Gold Cup Thread
« on: June 25, 2023, 03:31:08 PM »
OG 3-0!!

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Football / Re: 2023 Concacaf Gold Cup Thread
« on: June 25, 2023, 02:45:49 PM »
That’s one!

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Football / Re: The Jack Warner Thread.
« on: November 18, 2022, 12:35:06 PM »
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Football / Re: The Jack Warner Thread.
« on: October 30, 2022, 02:48:42 PM »
Q&A: Jack Warner says Sorry to England, Forgives Kamla
Wants USA knocked out early in World Cup
by Prior Beharry (AZP News)


October 29, 2022

FORMER FIFA vice president and government minister Jack Warner sat down on Friday with Editor-in-Chief of AZP News Prior Beharry at his Sunshine Today newspaper office in Arouca to discuss politics in Trinidad and Tobago and why he supported Russia and not England for the 2018 World Cup. He said he has forgiven then prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar for firing him as a minister after he was indicted for alleged corruption in FIFA. He also revealed that former prime minister Patrick Manning had invited him to his home to complain about current head of government Dr Keith Rowley. See Q and A below:

PB: How shall I describe you – retired politician, businessman, publisher?

JW: I can be an embodiment of all three. I am a publisher. I have my own newspaper – Sunshine Today. It’s the only weekly in the country and people do tell me very often almost on a weekly basis that it’s the best newspaper that they read. It is very informative and it gives them a lot of inside information in current and future policies of the government.

I am a businessman, because I have my businesses basically rental businesses. I have various properties throughout the country where I have tenants and they by and large were people who were suffering from the pandemic, many of them have not paid rent for over two years, but I refuse to evict them because when times were good they were good and therefore… I am talking to them to see how best we can come to terms with what outstanding they have.

PB: How much you think you have lost?

JW: I would say conservatively a couple of million dollars well and want to be conservative about it because in this country you put a figure and people want to kill you after.

Thirdly, I thought I am a retired politician and in some ways I am. But every day when I see the state of this country – when I see what’s happening in terms of crime, the economy, agriculture, you name it. Many a times I feel to put on my guns again.

PB: What can be done in terms of crime solutions? What are the solutions?

JW: What can be done is so simple. And I don’t understand why it hasn’t been done. In the first case I would like to see all the retired police officers retain their title as they do in the army… The mere fact that these people carry their title and their weapons and so on will act as a deterrent.

More importantly and I am making the point over and over again that we need to have some coastal police stations to prevent the influx of guns coming into the country.

You can say what you want, everybody knows that Moruga, Cedros, Matelot, Erin – these are areas where guns come into the country.

I read last week where a guy got murdered from some Spanish speaking people and of course Venezuelans of course and one of the guy who was murdered had hit the ground, the guys were in their boat going back to Venezuela. In Moruga.

It is not only putting police officers on the street, that doesn’t solve the problem. We have to make better use of army. The fact is the army some five, six, seven thousand strong, they are lounging down in Chaguaramas. Why don’t we put them into action and get them to do the kind of patrols day and night that the country needs.

The time has come for us to start hangings once again. You can say what you want about Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj he of course was an attorney general that everybody feared. He was the only guy in the world today who hanged six of them in one day and until we begin to get people to be afraid of the consequences of their crime, nothing would have.

PB: It was actually nine over four days in 1999.

JW: Well yes nine over four days.

PB: And the state of roads in country?

JW: I have pity for (Minister of Works and Transport) Rohan Sinanan because I know he means well. In fact, we talk from time to time. But, until the government gets serious about funding, and put in quality control in the contractors who fix these roads, we in trouble.

Also you have to have what we call preventative maintenance. You don’t wait till a road collapses before you fix it. If you take a taxi or a car… from here (Arouca) to Matelot you would see about ten or 15 landslides that will happen in six to ten months’ time.

Why do we have to wait until these collapse before we fix them?

Who look at our bridges over the years to see what needs repairs or not. Must these bridges collapse before we fix them?

And then when the bridges collapse, they take a long time to be fixed. Look at the bridge by the Golden Grove Prison. It has collapsed and I tell you this… you may even see your grandchildren before that road is fixed.

PB:Is it that we don’t have a culture and history of maintenance in this country?


Jack Warner at his Sunshine Today newspaper office in Arouca. AZP News/Prior Beharry

JW: Prior, I hasten to add, we don’t. Look at our sports facilities (former prime minister Basdeo) Panday built four stadia in 2001. Twenty years later, look at them, fallen to pieces. Not one has a coat of paint. I mean elevators not functioning, doors lacking hinges and so on…

The government maintains nothing. And people argue with some justification and the reason for that is when the thing collapses then they have a contract to give to some friend of theirs to refurbish it and that is of course their friends and their financiers and so on make money. But it’s not fair to the country.

PB: But, was that how it was when you were minister of works?

JW: It wasn’t so in my time because I was emphatic about maintaining these facilities, maintaining the roads.

Remember… I am not trying to boast, after 28 years it was I who built the Mt Pleasant bridge in Arima, which for 28 years the PNM said couldn’t be built.

Remember it was me who opened the road from Piarco to St Helena. Remember it was me who fixed the road next to San Fernando Technical Institute. And the list goes on and on. I take no boast for this but I believe I was a visionary who worked for a dollar a month, who never bought a tax free car.

PB: You never bought a car tax free as was your right as a minister?

JW: So help my God, never a tax free car at no point in time. For seven years I was in Parliament. Because I didn’t went there to take, I went there to make.

I never travelled on taxpayers’ money. I travelled once to Jamaica and I paid my way. So I am saying this to tell you that until people become committed to improving the society and not taking from it we shall be in trouble.

PB: You said you only took $1 salary as a minister, people could say that you were getting a hefty amount of money from FIFA during that time?

JW: Agreed! But there are guys who are getting even heftier that than that even locally and they still taking.

If a guy has 30, 40 properties and you went into government… if you getting $24 million a year, $30 million a year, why should you take an additional salary. Why should you.

How much money can you spend. Prior, how many beds can you sleep in? How many vehicles can you drive at one time? How many homes you can sleep in at one time? What is this urge? This greed? What for?

Yes, I was being taken care of externally. But, I am saying that there are guys who have been taken care of internally, better than I was and they still taking.

PB: What was your salary at that time with FIFA?

JW: FIFA never gave a salary, they give a stipend. And it was easy to make US$10,000, US$15,000, US$20,000 a month if you want to. Then after at the end of every World Cup they give you an allowance that was substantial and so on. Remember I’m there for 30 years and therefore, this speaks a lot. So therefore, I was well taken care of by FIFA.

PB: Do you miss FIFA?

JW: I don’t really. I have travelled enough. I have gone to 177 countries some of them seven times over. I don’t need to travel anymore especially with the kinds of restrictions you have now, don’t travel with your belt, your shoes, your shocks and so on.

I have met kings and queens and princes, I mean there is nobody, and this is not a boast Prior, there is nobody in the Western world who has travelled more than I have travelled; who has met national leaders, from Mandela go back to Putin, go back to Queen Elizabeth, you name them, I have met them.

From (Joe) Biden to (Bill) Clinton to (Barack) Obama, I have sat with all of them. And therefore I don’t need that anymore, I have had my fill.

I am now able to look back as a senior citizen, if you want to call it that, and say what I have accomplished and what I have not accomplished.

PB: But, do you miss the travel?

JW: I don’t. I don’t. I swear to you, I don’t. Not these days.

PB: But, is it that you are wanted in the US that you don’t travel?

No, no, no. The US may have contributed to that but I stopped travelling long before the (indictment in the) US.

The US they have their axe to grind and in future we shall decide who is right and who is wrong… I stopped travelling long before the US restriction.

PB: Your matter is before the Privy Council and England doesn’t like you because you voted for Russia to get the 2018 World Cup and not England. Do you think that you will get a fair hearing and ruling by the Privy Councillors?

JW: History has shown that the Privy Council disregards events that take place outside their domain. I have seen the Privy Council give some decisions on matters here in Trinidad that sometimes astounds me. And therefore they are brave. They have no axe to grind. I feel safe and sound that I should be judged fairly before them and at the end of the day I am just waiting to see what the outcome shall eventually be.

PB: The Privy Council vs the Caribbean Court of Justice as the final court of appeal for T&T?

JW: I am not for the CCJ.

PB: Why is that?

JW: Because I believe the CCJ can be easily tainted by local prejudices. They have to be outside of the realm of local politics for me to be secure about them and therefore, I am saying that I am not happy at all with the CCJ. I hope it doesn’t come into being in my lifetime.

PB: How old are you?

JW: I will be 80 on the 26th of January 2023.

PB: You had Covid. How are you now? Any Long Covid?

JW: I’m ok now, I spent 13 wicked days at the Couva hospital (the main Covid facility in T&T during the pandemic).

I must confess that I thanked the Lord, because nobody at my age and who was as sick as I was survived. I was the only survivor who was that old went through that kind of Covid turmoil and survived.

PB: Were you in ICU?

JW: I was in HDU (high dependency unit).

PB: Did you like the treatment?

JW: The treatment was good. Nurses did their best, but I did not like the meals. I cannot understand. I’m not a greedy person for meals. But I can’t understand why it is in Couva, you have to get meals from Mt Hope. And Couva has the best kitchen in the Caribbean. Why is it that we had to get meals from Mt Hope that’s cold, that’s late and sometimes not at all.

PB: Overall, how do you think that the Government handled the pandemic?

JW: I think the government made a lot of money from it. Money that they received from donations from various sources. I don’t think that they spent all the money on the pandemic and at some point in time the truth shall be revealed.

There was too much of a kind of terror tactics being used by the ministry of health and by some of the doctors… terrorising people as such and telling people don’t do this, don’t do that and at no point in time, they were saying let’s put our heads together and see how we can draw from another experiment as the case maybe. And it’s in that sense I have some problems with that.

PB: After you were dismissed from the government in 2013, you resigned as MP for Chaguanas West and caused a bye-election to be called and then went back to win that seat again. How did you achieve that when you weren’t in government and that was UNC safe seat?

JW: I’ll go further to tell you I am a Negro and was fighting in an Indian constituency. I am a Catholic fighting in a highly Hindu constituency. I was living in the East fighting in a constituency that was in Central. And last of all, I was fighting the government’s collective machinery…

But, you know something Prior, why I was able to do what I did? Because I was able to represent those people in a way nobody else ever did.

And up to now (in) Chaguanas West there are guys who consider me there to be a demigod, a semi-god ‘cause I fix their roads, their bridges. I went to their functions. I gave scholarships for children of cane farmers. You name it I did it. Wherever a problem arose I was present.

My hours and this is not meant to be a boast. My hours in Chaguanas West on a Friday might be from midnight Friday night to five, six, seven pm on Saturday afternoon. People will come from all over the country to see me.

PB: And you saw everyone?

JW: I saw everybody. I saw every single body and Prior you know something, if even I wasn’t able to help some of them, everyone left with a smile. My door was always open.

And therefore, I felt because of my representation I would have won and I did.

PB: You have a reputation as an early riser because this morning you called me at 5.47?

JW: That was late. I was in the office already.

PB: Tell me how does your day go?

JW: I come to office five in the morning. I would work until nine (o’clock), ten (o’clock) and then the phone starts to ring, I go crazy because everybody is calling and calling.

At eleven, twelve, I would go and see some of my businesses talk to some of my tenants, see what the problem is. Then go to the Centre of Excellence…

I love to play All Fours. I am an All Fours genius, star.

PB: So you claim?

JW: I will show off now. I will go and play some All Fours at a place called The Palace where I have some interests- a club, a bar on First Street in Five Rivers. And then do some reading and go to bed about eleven.

I’ll be up by 2 am. Then I go to walk. Every morning I walk for an hour. In park next to me called Warner Park.

PB: You are not worried about crime?

JW: I have an armed security that walks with me. Every morning for an hour – from 3.30 am to 4.30 am.

PB: You said, ‘you think’ that you are now a retired politician. Is there an opportunity now for you to go back into the politics?

JW: I have been asked and called upon every day.

PB: By whom?

JW: I hate to tell you but you’ll will be surprised by the people who called me just for me to acknowledge them, and I say I am not ready. I don’t want to make a premature return that at the end of the day I regret. So I am looking on to see what’s happening outside there and grieving inside to see the state of the country.

I am offended to see this racial bogey of what the Indian and African polarization has done to a country because until that is fixed the country will not progress.

So therefore, you have Indian for UNC, African for PNM and a few thousand in between.

I had gone to the UNC to fix that, to readjust that. I had gone to show that you can go to an Indian party and still be a person. But of course Suruj Rambachan and others dashed that.

PB: Are you going to look at the World Cup?

JW: Football?

PB: Yes, Football World Cup

JW: I don’t look at football anymore. I look at cricket. I am a cricket fanatic now. T20.

PB: Who are you supporting now, since West Indies are out (of the T20 World Cup in Australia)?

JW: I never supported West Indies. I knew from the start they were non-starters. And I didn’t allow my emotions to get the better of me. I knew they wouldn’t make it. But I was backing Pakistan. I was backing Babar Azam and (Mohammed) Rizwan and after I see Zimbabwe beat them by a run I almost cried.

And right now I have transferred my support from Pakistan to India.

PB: So you don’t look at football at all. I see that England, America and Iran are in the same group in the World Cup. When England play American who will you support?

JW: That happen before, a couple World Cups before.

PB: Who would you support when England play America?

JW: I don’t care who win. It doesn’t matter to me. It doesn’t matter to me who win. I mean, if you ask me that twice, I’ll tell you England because America has done damage to me and my family and therefore I am pained with America so I hoped that they get knocked out first. But beyond that I don’t care.

PB: England would say that they hate you because you voted to give Russia the 2018 World Cup over England.

JW: Yes they hate me. But hatred doesn’t last forever. Hated doesn’t last forever. At some point in time they have to come back to reality. The world isn’t made that way. When you hate somebody so much it tends to consume you and that is what affects you in the end.

PB: So do you regret voting for Russia against England?

JW: No! I thought it was Russia’s time. Where I failed I should have told England very early of what my intention was. I did not do that and therefore they were led along to believe I was supporting them. I failed, I erred and I apologise profusely for that but I thought it was Russia’s time to host a World Cup and I have no regret.

PB: You met (David) Beckham, you met Prince William… you gave them the impression…

JW: I met the Queen. I met her husband. The Queen gave me her plane to go to Ireland. The Queen put her plane at my disposal and her pilot to go to Ireland. I did all these things. England was very good to me. The brought courses to the Caribbean but in the end when I sat down and realise that England has hosted World Cups before.

PB: Only one in 1966.

JW: Yeah, but Russia had hosted none. Russian had never hosted a World Cup and I felt it was Russia’s turn. And when I sit back now and I reflect I have no cause for grief because I believe honestly, I did the right thing.
 
PB: What did you tell Prince William when you met him?

JW: I never said I would vote for them. I said, of course, I would give it some serious thought. At no point in time, thank God, did I tell England I voting for them.

PB: But, that was the impression people got in the media etc?

JW: The media don’t worry me. I know what I said. Even when the English team came here (Trinidad) and Beckham came and (did) coaching courses and so on, they asked me to make a statement that Jack Warner of CONCACAF now support the England bid. I didn’t do it. I didn’t do it. I never made a public endorsement of anybody.

PB: But did you give them the impression privately?

JW: That’s where I erred. I gave them that impression and I should not have. And that’s where I erred and possibly I am paying a price for that today. Who knows?

PB: Do you follow local football?

JW: There is no local football. You can’t name five national footballers on the national team at this point in time.

PB: Kevin Molino…

JW: I said five… I was heartened to read that the secondary league had a nice final on Wednesday and they had a big crowd.

PB: So that augurs well for football in T&T?

JW: For the secondary football league, not for football in T&T

PB: Why?

JW: Because what they have to do here is what I did and succeeded years ago. Prior, you don’t get success instantly; you have instant coffee, instant cocoa, you don’t have instant football. You have to go build. I began building at an early age – (Russell) Latapy, Dwight Yorke and these guys. I had CONCACAF youth tournaments here like crazy. I built a base of youth footballers and at that point in time, therefore I built a cadre of them and they were able to face a World Cup.

You can’t go and hope to find a (Columbus Crew midfielder Kevin) Molino here and Molino there and anywhere that is hit and miss. And it does not work that way.

And that is why you see football wouldn’t rise in here in a hurry.

PB: The difference now than in 2006 when T&T made it to a World Cup?

JW: Chalk and chesse. Guys today can’t trap a ball, and asking you, ‘how much you will pay me’. Guys today cannot pass a ball and asking you what you have to give them. What do you tell them? There is no pro league in this country. There is no national league in this country. There is no inter-league in this country.

PB: What are your thoughts on the Ascension League?

JW: I don’t know enough about them to speak on them. I see a headline now and again but I don’t read on football. So I don’t know much about them, but if they were successful to me they would have been more effective. They would have been as effective as the secondary schools football league is now.

PB: And the Normalisation Committee that FIFA has in place?

JW: I think that FIFA has done a disservice to the country. The guys who were in power should not have been removed. They did that to spite Jack Warner and thought that in a way they would have hurt me. They haven’t hurt me one bit, they hurt football in T&T.

I am disheartened to see that nobody in the media or in authority had spoken out strongly against this disservice done to this country.

But again this is how we are as a people, anything foreign is good and if foreigners put the committee there, then so bet it.

PB: What about the Netflix movie on you and FIFA coming out next month?

JW: On FIFA not on me. I will be involved in it they say. It doesn’t interest me.

PB: You won’t look at it?

JW: It doesn’t interest me. I stop looking at football. I say to Netflix, ‘get a life.’ But if they believe that that will help them to make some money go ahead.

Four years ago, a fella called Andrew Jennings wrote a book called Foul, just before the World Cup where is he today? He’s dead.

Netflix is… doing a movie on FIFA and Jack Warner. Four years from now look and see where they’ll be. I doesn’t bother me.

I have insulated myself from criticism from football, if not I would have been dead already. So it doesn’t worry me. I won’t watch it and I don’t even want to hear about it.

PB: Is it that how you get along now?

JW: That is correct. I live deliberately in a kind of cocoon. I have internally migrated, for want of a better term, and therefore these things don’t worry me anymore.

A headline in the papers on Jack Warner used to worry me long time. But it doesn’t worry me anymore. I guy attacked me on social media it does not worry me anymore.

PB: Are you on social media?

JW: No I’m not on social media not on Facebook.

PB: Basdeo Panday, Patrick Manning, Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Dr Keith Rowley. Who’s the best?

The best was Basdeo Panday.

PB: Why?

JW: Basdeo Panday was the first Indian prime minister. He came in at a time when this country had no money. He came in at a time when the oil (price) was at its lowest. And if one was to sit down and look objectively at what he had achieved during that period then they would have nothing else but good things to say about him…

Look at his achievements, look at how many police stations he built, look at the scholarships he gave. Look at the man who gave free education to all, that was Panday.

But, the worst prime minister this country has ever seen is Keith Rowley. And don’t ask me why. There is nothing good I can say about him and my grandmother told me that if you can’t say good don’t say bad.

Rowley is the worst thing to happen to this country.

And you know what is sad. Manning called me in his home. He and I weren’t good friends. He called me to his home. Prior, I swear to you this morning…

PB: When was that?

JW: A month before he died. He asked to see me. I went to his home. He sent out his wife and children. He had a Bible on his leg and his hand was kind of flicking and so on, turning the pages. He asked me, he begged me never to allow Rowley and (Colm) Imbert rule this country. I told him, ‘yes sir, I agree with you, by why didn’t you stop them in their tracks when you had to go up for election.’ He said if he had done that, there would have been a revolution in the PNM. I said okay sir.

You know something. Three or four months after when Kamla called election, I supported Rowley. I helped Rowley, he could say what he wants, I did.

PB: Why?

JW: Because Kamla had hurt me. She had hurt me passionately and of course the things she said about me in the Chaguanas West bye-election, the things she said about me even after pains me and pains me still. Of course, I don’t care what anybody say, I contributed in making Kamla what she eventually became.

PB: Have you spoken to her since?

JW: No I haven’t.

PB: Would you forgive her?

Yes sure. I was bitter in those days but right now I am not bitter.

PB: Would you support her now against Rowley?

JW: Well actually she is the lesser of the two evils and surely I would. Rowley is bad news…

There are over 6,000 students who would graduate from university at (a function) at the Centre of Excellence this week.

Where would they get jobs? Where would they work? On top of that you are telling me now that you are going to move the retirement age from 60 to 65. So how these guys coming into the system? Who would they replace.? And therefore what would these young people do?

If I were a young person in this country I would head north, not USA, but Canada, Toronto. There is no hope for young people in this country as it is at present.

And I am not saying that because I am bitter but I am saying it because I am pragmatic, I am realistic.

There is no middle class in this country. Poverty is rampant and of course with poverty crime. What do you do?


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Trinidad and Tobago History / Re: The Merikins
« on: May 21, 2022, 02:51:51 PM »
The domain name is dead, but these links can be found on archive.org. Edit: there's a new domain name without the ".co."

https://web.archive.org/web/20120913182648/https://www.mcnishandweiss.co.uk/history/merikens.supplement.pdf
http://www.mcnishandweiss.uk/history/merikens.supplement.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20200125223504/http://www.mcnishandweiss.co.uk/history/papers.html
http://www.mcnishandweiss.uk/history/papers.html

plus others

https://web.archive.org/web/20080406062456/http://www.mcnishandweiss.co.uk/history/colonialmarines.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20141230205201/http://www.mcnishandweiss.co.uk/history/merikensp2.html

More Merikins stuff

A list of the original settlers:
http://www.mcnishandweiss.co.uk/history/merikens.supplement.pdf

All John's papers on the subject:
http://www.mcnishandweiss.co.uk/history/papers.html

I recently discovered a book that has a genealogy that goes from my wife's dad back to a Lizzie Evins from either Halifax or the US:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Two_Among_Many/cCJFywAACAAJ?hl=en
Got my daughter in college to check it out from the Princeton U. Library and I made a pdf if anyone is interested.

But someone also transcribed it to geni.com as a browsable family tree:
https://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000013706706478


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Football / Re: The In Memory Of Thread
« on: February 26, 2022, 11:51:36 AM »
We had a chance to visit Larry's family one year on from his passing. My wife is a first cousin of his. His daughter runs a pizza joint in front of the residence in La Brea.



Ex-T&T midfielder Joseph receives guard of honour send-off.
By Jonathan Ramnanansingh (T&T Newsday).


FORMER national midfielder Larry Joseph received a guard of honour send-off from former teammates Clayton Morris and Brian Williams, at the La Brea Brighton Sports Ground, on Wednesday.

Joseph, who has 30 caps for T&T, passed away on February 17. He was 56. The former midfielder played for Trintoc, United Petrotrin, captained the 1990 South team against their northern rivals and went pro in 1994, joining Charlotte Eagles in the US Inter-regional Soccer League.

Morris was brought to tears during his emotional tribute to his longtime friend. He reminisced on their glory days of football on both the national, pro and domestic levels.

The former Strike Squad captain paid particular emphasis on Joseph’s integral roles in domestic victories over Cosmos in Guaracara Park, Marabella, and Alcon at the Arima Velodrome back in the day.

In the latter, Joseph scored a long-distance goal from his team’s half to catch the late goalkeeper Michael McComie off his lines. Morris and Joseph shared over 35 years playing for country and both domestic and foreign-based clubs.

“Larry was instrumental in securing many titles for every, and any team he represented. He always had the extra in him whenever it was warranted,” said Morris.

The now 54-year-old credited the late Joseph for playing instrumental roles in having the 1989 Strike Squad registered as a company. According to him, Joseph was resilient to see the team’s legacy live on.

The former teammates even travelled to Orlando, Florida in 2015 and 2017, and to New York in 2019 to meet their foreign-based fans up close and personal.

“He always reminded us that Strike Squad was a brand that could not be underestimated. In 1990, the Strike Squad reunited for a football game against prisoners from Carrera Island. I contacted Larry and other players and journeyed to the prison.

“That was a unique experience for us because we were now providing hope to fellow humans who society seemed to have cast away and forgotten,” added Morris.

Former T&T player and Joseph’s Charlotte Eagles teammate Philbert Jones also reflected on the trio’s (and Morris) stints at the US club. He deemed it was a “miracle” when the three Trinbagonians were on the field at the same time.

Additionally, paying tribute to Joseph’s football legacy in the community was longstanding La Brea Angels Masters member Randy Neptune. The former club-mate stressed how Joseph gave back to the community through sport by even starting a minor league by himself.

“I will miss my ‘soldier’. From the front door to the back door, this is Larry Joseph ground. If the Government me a chance I would have buried him on this grounds (La Brea Brighton) because he loved this field so much,” said Neptune.

Also sharing their memories of Joseph were Presentation College Old Boys Association member Darren White, La Brea Sports Foundation’s Julius Wilson and Point Fortin College 81ers (Point Fortin College’s graduating class of 1981) Diane Liverpool.

Joseph’s eulogy was read by his wife Cherryl, daughter Shimone and two sons Shimon and Akil, who all shared their past personal and private moments of the late “family man’.

After moving from Palo Seco to La Brea, in 1968, Joseph attended Brighton AC primary School and passed for PFC in 1976 where he continued to play football. He then got accepted to Presentation College where he obtained most goals in the college’s league in 1983.

After his secondary school stint, he played with Forest Reserve and was named MVP at the club level. He also acquired multiple MVP awards for Trintoc in the Caribbean Club Championship. Joseph went on to play at the national level and then went pro in 1994.

Following his funeral service, Joseph’s body was taken to the La Brea Public Cemetery. Several mourners walked alongside the hearse from the recreation ground to the cemetery to bid the former stalwart national player a final farewell.

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Former national midfielder Larry Joseph laid to rest
By Ian Prescott (T&T Express).


Son of the soil

He cut the La Brea community field and ran minor league football in La Brea; preached monthly on family life in the La Brea Faith Pentecostal church; and was the glue that held together most of the teams.

A peacemaker, Larry Ruthven Joseph was laid to rest yesterday after a funeral at the La Brea recreation ground that he loved. Joseph was just 56 when he died. Married to wife Cheryl, he had three children Shimone, Shimon and Akil.

Yesterday’s ceremony began with Joseph’s body being brought into the venue by former Presentation College, United Petrotrin and “Strike Squad” teammates -- among them Philbert Jones, Brian Williams and Clayton Morris. Many tributes were made, with Joseph being described as a man of humility, good character, a devout Christian, family and community man.

Jones, uncle of former T&T skipper Kenwyne Jones, described Joseph as both brother and friend, while brought to tears was Morris, his friend, teammate and Petrotrin workmate of many years.

“He was a mentor that made the impossible possible,” Morris stated. “During my 35 years that I know him he demonstrated the characteristic that he was the better man.”

Prior to his burial, Joseph was celebrated on the Field of Dreams football television discussion programme, moderated by former national Steve David, and included among the guest Sean Cooper, Anthony Clarke, Jefferson George, Brian Williams and Dexter Cyrus.

“Everybody know Larry Joseph,“ said friend and former teammate Randolph Neptune. “You could walk through La Brea and ask anybody about Larry Joseph.”

“Larry has done so much for La Brea,” Neptune continued. “Larry run minor league in La Brea, the Sport Foundation, nurturing youth. From the moment you could walk, you could come and do football training with Larry.”

As an established T&T midfielder, Joseph was also a comforter to a young Dexter Cyrus, who would also go on to have an outstanding career at club and national team level. As a 20-year-old, Cyrus remembers nervously walking into a United Petrotrin club dressing room containing the majority of T&T national team starters, including Brian Williams, Clayton Morris, Dexter Francis, Anthony Rougier, Addaryl John, Anthony Sherwood, Philbert Jones and Peter Prosper, the bunch which won team of the year four or five times in seven seasons.

Cyrus remembers being starstruck, nervous and probably wondering if he was good enough to play with these guys.

“Larry would have put his hand on my shoulder and said ‘youth man, dem fellas is human being just like me and you. Yuh come here to play football, doh worry yuhself nah,’” Cyrus recalled. “And (that act) just take away all that tension. Just relax me. After that everything was good.”

Joseph was the person no one could say anything bad about noted both Cyrus and Williams. From a teenager, Joseph was a well-mannered Christian youth with a sense of humour. Joseph grew up in La Brea and after excelling with Point Fortin College’s ‘81 team, he was drafted into a Presentation College team after out-playing them in a match against his church team.

He excelled as the Presentation College team which once whipped a star-studded Signal Hill 5-0. Joseph was also prominent in the T&T senior national team, but unfortunately he vied for the same position as Russell Latapy, who went onto to ply with European teams such as Porto and Glasgow Rangers.

“The second best player I would have played with locally after Russell Latapy in terms of skill, would have been Larry Joseph,” noted Anthony Clarke, the former Presentation College and T&T national youth team goalkeeper. “I think the era of him being prominent on the national team wasn’t there because Russell was there.”

Although Joseph stood out as a midfield general in the mould of former Porto midfielder Latapy, he made a greater mark off the field as a mentor, administrator and family man and friend.

“Larry Joseph the man was even more phenomenal than Larry Joseph the player,” Clarke stated. “He was a real kicks man. Plenty people only saw Larry as this church boy, but Larry used to talk a lot of rubbish and make people laugh. He was a man of faith. he was a man of his community.”



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Football / Re: What made Arthur Suite's ASL so Successful?
« on: November 14, 2021, 03:10:36 PM »
Had this question emailed to me today:

22-11-1982  Arena: Trinidad & Tobago
ASL Sports Club – IFK Göteborg  0-2

25-11-1982  Arena: Trinidad & Tobago
KFC Memphis United – IFK Göteborg  0-3
Hope T&T Football History could help me with further information of his
two matches
such lineups and goalscorers and other facts available ?


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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Nicki Minaj Appreciation Thread
« on: September 16, 2021, 02:48:48 PM »
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Football / Re: The In Memory Of Thread
« on: February 18, 2021, 03:31:01 PM »
very sad news indeed about Larry..... shock !!! very mild manner guy indeed. Had the opportunity of giving him is only overseas stint at a USL club in the mid 90's. RIP my friend       

What club was that?



Charlotte Eagles

https://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/history-of-the-eagles-1994-96/n-4434741

1994: The Charlotte Eagles doubled their win total to 10 wins in year two to finish with a 10-8 record and a third place finish in the nine team Atlantic Division. The Eagles defeated the Raleigh Flyers 2-0 in the Conference Semi-finals before losing to Charleston in the Conference finals. In 1994, the USISL consisted of 69 franchises of which eight franchises are still competing in the USL. The USISL's Atlantic Division's Greensboro Dynamo hosted the USISL's Sizzling Nine and won the league championship by defeating the Minnesota Thunder 2-1 in a shootout. The 1994 season would be the first of nine consecutive winning seasons for the Eagles.

The Eagles improved through the development of a number of second year players and the addition of several new players. A trio of Trinidad and Tobago National Team players (Philbert Jones, Larry Joseph and Clayton Morris) strengthened the squad. Morris, a long time captain for the T and T National Team assumed a captain's role with the Eagles. Morris solidified a defense along with some second year veteran's such as the speedy Kevin Willis, Brad McCarty, Brad McGlaughlin, Graham Dancy (England) and Meanu Kayea. Former US National Team goalkeeper Jeff Duback also joined the team.

Philbert Jones, Jon Payne (All-ACC from Clemson) and Keith Dakin became a real formidable trio in attack. Philippe Berthoud played his first of four impactful seasons. Kelly Findley and Mike Rivas, who would later work together on the coaching staff at Butler University, were among the midfielders.

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General Discussion / Re: De Ganja files
« on: February 08, 2021, 09:19:24 PM »
Jamaica faces marijuana shortage as farmers struggle
By SHARLENE HENDRICKS and DÁNICA COTO, AP


https://apnews.com/article/world-news-jamaica-kingston-coronavirus-pandemic-marijuana-2d9e9c6dbc4d311e7b7085708eca0571

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica is running low on ganja.

Heavy rains followed by an extended drought, an increase in local consumption and a drop in the number of marijuana farmers have caused a shortage in the island’s famed but largely illegal market that experts say is the worst they’ve seen.

“It’s a cultural embarrassment,” said Triston Thompson, chief opportunity explorer for Tacaya, a consulting and brokerage firm for the country’s nascent legal cannabis industry.

Jamaica, which foreigners have long associated with pot, reggae and Rastafarians, authorized a regulated medical marijuana industry and decriminalized small amounts of weed in 2015.

People caught with 2 ounces (56 grams) or less of cannabis are supposed to pay a small fine and face no arrest or criminal record. The island also allows individuals to cultivate up to five plants, and Rastafarians are legally allowed to smoke ganja for sacramental purposes.

But enforcement is spotty as many tourists and locals continue to buy marijuana on the street, where it has grown more scarce — and more expensive.

Heavy rains during last year’s hurricane season pummeled marijuana fields that were later scorched in the drought that followed, causing tens of thousands of dollars in losses, according to farmers who cultivate pot outside the legal system.

“It destroyed everything,” said Daneyel Bozra, who grows marijuana in the southwest part of Jamaica, in a historical village called Accompong founded by escaped 18th-century slaves known as Maroons.

Worsening the problem were strict COVID-19 measures, including a 6 p.m. curfew that meant farmers couldn’t tend to their fields at night as is routine, said Kenrick Wallace, 29, who cultivates 2 acres (nearly a hectare) in Accompong with the help of 20 other farmers.

He noted that a lack of roads forces many farmers to walk to reach their fields — and then to get water from wells and springs. Many were unable to do those chores at night due to the curfew.

Wallace estimated he lost more than $18,000 in recent months and cultivated only 300 pounds, compared with an average of 700 to 800 pounds the group normally produces.

Activists say they believe the pandemic and a loosening of Jamaica’s marijuana laws has led to an increase in local consumption that has contributed to the scarcity, even if the pandemic has put a dent in the arrival of ganja-seeking tourists.

“Last year was the worst year. ... We’ve never had this amount of loss,” Thompson said. “It’s something so laughable that cannabis is short in Jamaica.”

Tourists, too, have taken note, placing posts on travel websites about difficulties finding the drug.

Paul Burke, CEO of Jamaica’s Ganja Growers and Producers Association, said in a phone interview that people are no longer afraid of being locked up now that the government allows possession of small amounts. He said the stigmatization against ganja has diminished and more people are appreciating its claimed therapeutic and medicinal value during the pandemic.

Burke also said that some traditional small farmers have stopped growing in frustration because they can’t afford to meet requirements for the legal market while police continue to destroy what he described as “good ganja fields.”

The government’s Cannabis Licensing Authority — which has authorized 29 cultivators and issued 73 licenses for transportation, retail, processing and other activities — said there is no shortage of marijuana in the regulated industry. But farmers and activists say weed sold via legal dispensaries known as herb houses is out of reach for many given that it still costs five to 10 times more than pot on the street.

___

Coto reported from San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Football / Re: Thread for USA vs T&T Game (31-Jan-2021)
« on: January 31, 2021, 07:58:19 PM »
What's the #10 name?

10. Duane Muckette

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Football / Re: Thread for USA vs T&T Game (31-Jan-2021)
« on: January 31, 2021, 06:42:44 PM »
missed offside call on the 2nd goal

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Football / Re: Thread for USA vs T&T Game (31-Jan-2021)
« on: January 31, 2021, 06:39:57 PM »




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Football / Re: Thread for USA vs T&T Game (31-Jan-2021)
« on: January 31, 2021, 06:28:11 PM »
that was fast

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School can ban dreadlocks, Jamaica’s high court rules

By Kate Chappell
The Washington Post
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s high court ruled Friday that a school was within its rights to demand that a girl cut her dreadlocks to attend classes, a surprise decision that touched on issues of identity and one the most recognizable symbols of the island’s Rastafarian culture.

The ruling by the Supreme Court of Jamaica capped a two-year battle after the girl — then 5 years old — was told she must cut her dreadlocks for “hygiene” reasons to study at Kensington Primary School in a Kingston suburb.

A rights group, Jamaicans for Justice, had initially lent support to the family, saying the order for the girl to cut her dreadlocks amounted a denial of her freedom of expression and her access to education.

Others viewed the court battle as a stand against rules seen as discrimination against people who wear “natural” hair, including Rastafarians whose dreadlocks are part of their religious tradition.

The girl and her parents, Dale and Sherine Virgo, who both wear dreadlocks, plan to appeal, said their lawyer, Isat Buchanan.

“I will not be cutting my daughter’s hair,” Sherine Virgo said immediately after the ruling. “If they give me that ultimatum again, I will be moving her.”

Virgo’s daughter — now 7 years old and identified in court papers only as Z because she is a minor — was attending classes at the school after the courts delivered an injunction against the Ministry of Education, allowing her to go to school with her dreadlocks intact.

When the school closed this spring because of the coronavirus pandemic, the girl was home-schooled.

“I am more than surprised. It is most unfortunate,” Buchanan said. “It is a most unfortunate day for Black people and for Rastafarian people in Jamaica.”

The girl’s father called the ruling another sign of “systemic racism.”

“A child was refused because of her Black hair, you know?” said Dale Virgo. “It’s so weird that right now in the current climate of the world, in 2020, we are having protests, and Black people are fed up.

“This is an opportunity the Jamaican government and the legal system had to right these wrongs and lead the world and make a change,” he continued. “But they have decided to keep the same system.”

The judgment was delivered in a small courtroom populated mainly by lawyers and the girl’s parents.

The minister of education, Karl Samuda, declined to comment on the ruling, which came on the eve of Emancipation Day, celebrated in Jamaica and elsewhere to mark the end of slavery in the British Empire.

“I’m very cautious about where I tread,” he said, “especially on a sensitive enough subject like that.”

Verene Shepherd, director of the Center for Reparation Research at the University of the West Indies, said the Ministry of Education is debating issues of student clothing and hairstyles, including dreadlocks.

The Virgos say they do not identify as Rastafarian, but they say that wearing dreadlocks is an expression of their identity. All Virgo family members wear that natural hairstyle, as do many Jamaicans who identify as Rastafarian.

Though Rastafarians account for only about 2 percent of Jamaica’s population, the movement has an outsize influence in the culture. Made popular by perhaps the world’s most famous Rastafarian, Bob Marley, it is a political and religious movement that was founded in the 1930s, drawing from African, Revivalist and Christian traditions.

Despite its popularity, Rastafarians, and people who wear natural hair, still face discrimination in Jamaica.

Some schools, including Kensington Primary, explicitly state that dreadlocks are not allowed, and other schools have banned students who refuse to cut them. In the wake of the challenge, the Ministry of Education issued guidelines for hairstyles, including a directive that if children wear dreadlocks, they must be “neat.”

“In general, I think that discrimination on the grounds of hairstyle is wrong,” Shepherd said. “I do not think our children who are Rastafari and who express their culture through their hair should be discriminated against.”

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Football / Re: CONCACAF News Thread
« on: July 06, 2020, 11:48:41 AM »
Ex-CONCACAF President Alfredo Hawit Sentenced To Time Served

By RONALD BLUM
AP Sports Writer

Jun. 29, 2020 6:44 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The former president of soccer’s governing body for North and Central America and the Caribbean was sentenced to time served for his role in accepting $1.66 million in bribes in the FIFA scandals and will return to Honduras after 4 1/2 years in the U.S.

Alfredo Hawit of Honduras, CONCACAF’s president from May 27, 2015, until Dec. 4, 2015, was given the sentence Monday by U.S. District Judge Pamela K. Chen in Brooklyn during a video hearing.

The 68-year-old Hawit also was sentenced to two years of supervised release and barred during that time from holding a title in FIFA, CONCACAF or any professional soccer organization. Chen deferred a ruling on restitution for 90 days, said forfeiture will be $950,000 and said he must pay $400 in special assessments.

“I do take responsibility and I have changed considerably. I want to ask forgiveness for all those things I did back then,” Hawit said through a translator.

“There are no words to express how sorry I am,” he said in a written statement read by the translator to the court. “I also regret all the harm I did to soccer, which is the sport that I love. ... From the day of my arrest in Zurich and the time that I spent in jail and 4 1/2 years so far, I’ve suffered. I’ve felt humiliated and shamed by my behavior, and I’m paying the price.”

Hawit, a lawyer, teacher and former professional soccer player, will be deported when the coronavirus pandemic eases and Honduras reopens its border. Prosecutors said his family is working with the Honduran consulate to arrange transport, and Chen recommended that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement allow him to self-deport.

Hawit pleaded guilty on April 11, 2016, to two counts of wire fraud conspiracy and one count each of racketeering conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Each count carried a possible sentence of up to 20 years.

His sentence showed the impact of a guilty plea early in the case rather than risk a guilty verdict at trial. Former South American governing body president Juan Ángel Napout is serving a nine-year sentence following his conviction and former Brazil federation president José Maria Marin was sentenced to four years after his conviction. Marin was given compassionate release about eight months early in April, shortly before his 88th birthday.

Chen said Hawit tried to conceal bribes and even used the name of his wife, a superior court judge in Honduras. He also tried to cover up the payments by directing co-conspirators to create a sham contract.

“The government’s investigation and prosecution in this case has rightfully served as a wake-up call to the entire professional soccer world and to all of its associations that business cannot be conducted in this manner,” Chen said.

She said Hawit did not warrant additional jail time, given that he voluntarily accepted extradition, spent two months incarcerated and about four years under house arrest, and he expressed remorse.

“While it is clear that Mr. Hawit faltered badly by agreeing for a number of years to take bribes of a significant amount on multiple occasions and covering that up through elaborate schemes," Chen said, "he did recover after being caught and has since tried to make amends.”

Hawit became CONCACAF’s president after Jeffrey Webb was arrested while attending a FIFA meeting in Zurich, but Hawit was arrested in Switzerland on Dec. 3, 2015. He was extradited to the U.S. the following Jan. 13 and released on bond that Feb. 2.

He was banned for life by FIFA on Dec. 19, 2016, after the adjudicatory chamber of its independent ethics committee found him guilty of violating FIFA's code of ethics provisions on general rules of conduct; loyalty; duty of disclosure, cooperation and reporting; conflicts of interest; and bribery and corruption.

Hawit admitted in court to accepting bribes for awarding media rights contracts for World Cup qualifying in Central America and for CONCACAF events, and to attempting to influence testimony in the U.S. investigation during July 2015.

“We do believe that once Mr. Hawit was arrested and waived extradition and came to the country, that he has fully accepted responsibility for his actions,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Keith D. Edelman said.

Eight remaining counts against Hawit were dismissed Monday.

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Football / Re: 1965: Trinidad wins first WC qualifier.
« on: July 06, 2020, 11:25:13 AM »
Very cool

This was the lineup reported by Reuters

https://ttfootballhistory.com/node/913

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Feb. 5 (Reuters):

TRINIDAD'S World Cup Football team for their, group 2 North and Central American Zone tie with Surinam here on Sunday will be chosen from:

Lincoln Phillips, Aldwyn Ferguson, Tyrone Delabastide, Clem Clarke, Sedley Joseph (captain), Ken Furlonge, Andy Leong, Jeff Gellineau, Pat Small, Alvin Corneal, Trevor Leacock, Victor Gamaldo, and Bobby Sookram.



The differences with that listed in the video notes are: Gerry Brown, Doyle Griffith and no Trevor Leacock.   


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Football / Re: Former T&T captain Sedley supports foreign coach.
« on: June 08, 2020, 05:28:50 PM »
past articles about him:
https://ttfootballhistory.com/taxonomy/term/228

1963 Maple

1963 FA Champions
Back Row: Ronnie Woods, Dick Rodriguez, Sedley Joseph, Lincoln Phillips, Kelvin Hoford, Eddie Aleong
Front Row: Andy Aleong, Alvin Corneal, David McDeegan, Joey Donaldson, Rawle Boland.

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What about Track & Field / Re: 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo Thread.
« on: April 13, 2020, 11:16:47 AM »
Athletes completing bans get unexpected chance at Olympics
By KEN MAGUIRE


BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — Athletes completing doping bans over the next year will be eligible to compete in the postponed Tokyo Olympics, an unintended effect of the coronavirus pandemic that has some crying foul.

Turkish runner Gamze Bulut, for example, will now have plenty of time to qualify for a games she likely would have missed had they gone ahead as scheduled.

“It doesn’t seem like a fair punishment,” Irish race walker Brendan Boyce told The Associated Press in a phone interview. “They haven’t really missed the events they were supposed to miss.”

The 2020 Olympics were officially postponed last month for one year, with the opening ceremony now set for July 23, 2021.

Bulut originally won silver in the 1,500 meters at the 2012 London Olympics but was stripped of her medal because of irregularities in her biological passport, which monitors an athlete’s blood profile. She was given a four-year ban that began in 2016 and expires on May 29 — giving her an unexpected full year to qualify for Tokyo.

“I’m trying my best to (attend) the Olympics,” the 27-year-old runner said. “I hope I can join.”

The Athletics Integrity Unit estimates that about 40 of the 200 or so banned track and field athletes who stand to gain from the Olympic postponement are international-level competitors. The AIU maintains a global list of track athletes banned for doping violations.

More than 11,000 athletes are expected to compete in 33 sports in Tokyo, with about 2,000 of them in track and field.

Boyce, a two-time Olympian who has qualified for Tokyo, said restrictions on the number of competitors could make it harder for clean athletes to earn places.

“I wouldn’t be too happy now if I lost an Olympic spot because of an anomaly like what’s going on at the minute,” Boyce said.

The Irishman protested on social media but stopped short of filing any formal complaints. British long-distance runner and Tokyo hopeful Lily Partridge agreed.

“I don’t believe in second chances with regards to serious doping offenses unless you provide serious assistance to anti-doping authorities and even then I don’t believe you should have the privilege of being able to compete and earn money from the sport,” Partridge told the AP.

However, World Anti-Doping Agency President Witold Banka said the unforeseen health crisis doesn’t mean authorities can “cherry-pick” when athletes have completed their bans.

“While an athlete cannot choose when he or she would like to be ineligible, an (anti-doping organization) cannot either,” Banka said. “This is entirely consistent with principles of natural justice and other areas of the law as it relates to sports or even criminal activity. When an offender has done the time, the sentence is considered to be served.”

Sebastian Coe, the Olympic great who is now president of World Athletics, was less definitive in comments shortly after the games were postponed.

“This is something we will need to look at,” Coe said. “I know it’s something the Athletics Integrity Unit, and I’m sure all the other agencies out there in concert with our sports, will need to think about, and that will just be another issue in an overflowing inbox at the moment.”

Athletes who have already qualified for Tokyo have been assured that they’ll keep their spots as future qualification decisions unfold.

Among notable athletes due to come off doping bans are Polish weightlifter Tomasz Zielinski and Irish boxer Michael O’Reilly. Neither returned messages seeking comment.

Boyce, the race walker, said it would be difficult for an Irish athlete to compete after a doping ban.

“Having a doping ban in Ireland is much more than serving time away from your sport,” he said. “It’s really crippling for your life because you’re basically seen as a criminal. It’s a form of fraud. In other countries, you see some athletes who are on doping bans just training normally and they’re just waiting to come back and nobody in that country seems to be too bothered.”

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The full documentary is $4.99 on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0815THB46


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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Whomst Among Us Let the Dogs Out?
« on: March 06, 2020, 08:25:02 PM »
Whomst Among Us Let the Dogs Out?
https://www.whosampled.com/news/2020/03/06/whomst-among-us-let-the-dogs-out/

Episode 389 of the 99% Invisible Podcast, takes a deep dive to establish the origins of Baha Men's year 2000 smash hit 'Who Let the Dogs Out':

Enlisting the help of Ben Sisto, whose decade long search to uncover the song's origins resulted in a 2019 documentary of the same name, the show traces the DNA of the hit song, shining a light on various songs to have included the iconic phrase. Watch a trailer for Sisto's film below:

https://youtu.be/d4wU7cWkF_k


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Football / Re: The In Memory Of Thread
« on: November 01, 2019, 07:37:28 PM »
Gerald Figeroux
Dave Lamy

"The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association extends deepest sympathy to the families of former Trinidad and Tobago 1973 player Gerald Figeroux and veteran distinguished sportscaster Dave Lamy.

Gerald's funeral was today while Dave sadly passed earlier today at age 80."

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Billy Mo was born on February 22, 1923 in Trinidad as Peter Mico Joachim. He was an actor, known for Übermut im Salzkammergut (1963), Schlagerparade 1961 (1961) and Die Nacht vor der Premiere (1959). He was married to Sylvia Hartjenstein and Margot Miranda. He died on July 16, 2004 in Hannover, Germany.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594900/

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/X9FgN2jWarA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/X9FgN2jWarA</a>

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Football / Re: Thread for T&T vs USA Game (22-June-2019)
« on: June 22, 2019, 07:36:55 PM »
Floodgates

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So sad. Rest in peace.

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Football / Re: 2018 World Cup Thread
« on: July 08, 2018, 10:25:15 AM »
Look like people going with France or England https://tinyurl.com/yalg8dgv
.
It was ah tongue in cheek jab, but most of dem fellas coulda play for dey parents birth land if so motivated so....

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France was a finalist in my original bracket vs Germany. So France is it for me, though any of these teams could do it. A new winner would be great, too.


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Football / Re: The International Friendlies Thread
« on: June 02, 2018, 01:17:03 PM »
Austria managed a nice sequence on their 2nd goal after Germany switched off for a second

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What about Track & Field / Usain Bolt loses an Olympic gold medal
« on: June 01, 2018, 11:25:10 AM »
Usain Bolt loses an Olympic gold medal as Jamaica teammate ruled to have been doping
by Des Bieler (The Washington Post)

May 31, 2018

Usain Bolt is no longer perfect in his three trips to the Olympics, and he'll have to settle for a haul of just eight gold medals. The sprinting superstar, who retired in August, lost a piece of glory from the Games when an international sports tribunal upheld a ruling Thursday that a Jamaica teammate was doping during the men's 4×100 relay race at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Nesta Carter had run the first leg of that race, with Bolt going third in an effort that not only got Jamaica a gold medal but set a world record. However, in an effort to prevent dopers from competing at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, the International Olympic Committee had dozens of athletes' samples from the 2008 and 2012 Games retested, using improved methods, and Carter was found to have had traces of a banned stimulant in his system.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, dismissed Carter's appeal Thursday, which disqualifies the entire 2008 Jamaican relay team, including Asafa Powell and Michael Frater. In a statement, the CAS said that a three-member panel, composed of officials from Israel, Italy and the United Kingdom, "concluded that the reanalysis of Nesta Carter's sample collected following the race at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games confirmed the presence of methylhexaneamine."

The panel "could not accept any of the arguments raised by Nesta Carter contending that the test results should be ignored or the IOC DP decision should otherwise be overturned for certain alleged failures," the CAS said.

"The rules are the rules but at the end of the day the joy of winning that relay gold Medal in Beijing 2008 with my teammates will last forever," Bolt wrote on social media Thursday, posting a photo of himself with the other three.

Thus the Olympic record books will not show that Bolt went nine for nine in the 100 meters, 200 meters and 4×100 relay over the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Games. That, of course, won't do much to sully his reputation as the greatest sprinter, and arguably the greatest track and field athlete, of all time, particularly given his dominance in the individual events.

Bolt holds world records in all three of those events, setting the marks in the 100 (9.58) and 200 (19.19) in 2009, while his Jamaican squad - including Carter - posted a time of 36.84 at the 2012 Olympics. The 31-year-old also holds the record in the 150 meters (14.35), although that distance is not formally recognized by track's governing body, International Association of Athletics Federations.

In addition to offering an upbeat comment Thursday on the lost gold medal, Bolt took to social media to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first time he set the record in the 100. He would go on to better that mark 10 weeks later with a time of 9.69 at the 2008 Olympics before running his 9.58 the following year at the world championships in Berlin.

With the disqualification of Bolt's Jamaica team, 2008 Olympic gold medals in the men's 4×100 will go to Trinidad and Tobago, which finished second on the track in Beijing, with Japan getting silver medals and Brazil moving up to bronze.


TT relay to get Olympic gold after JA’s Carter loses appeal
by Andrew Gioanetti (T&T Newsday)

TT’s 4x100m team will receive gold medals a decade after the Beijing Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) yesterday dismissed Nesta Carter’s appeal against the ruling to strip Jamaica of its relay title.

Carter appealed the CAS decision in February after testing positive for methylhexaneamine, a banned stimulant, in 2016, eight years after the sample was collected.

Marc Burns, Keston Bledman, Richard Thompson, Emmanuel Callender and Aaron Armstrong were on the TT relay team that was initially awarded silver after clocking 38.06 seconds. With the ruling, Japan and Brazil were confirmed as the silver and bronze medal winners, respectively.

The result of the decision also meant Michael Frater and Asafa Powell lost their gold medals along with Bolt, who can no longer lay claim to a historic gold medal three-peat (100, 200 and 4x100m) at three consecutive Olympic games (2008-2016).

The CAS judgment noted: “We (do) not accept any of the arguments raised by Nesta Carter contending that the test results should be ignored or that the decision should otherwise be overturned for certain alleged failures.”

It continued: “Accordingly, the CAS panel dismissed the appeal and the decision is confirmed.”

Carter was also part of the Jamaica 4x100m team that beat TT for gold at the 2012 London Olympics, as well as the 4x100 relay teams that won gold at the World Championships in 2011, 2013 and 2015.

The news was both expected and welcomed by the TT team.

Speaking with Newsday yesterday, Burns said while receiving the gold medals in 2008 would have been more impactive, he and his team-mates can celebrate their positions among the world’s elite runners.

“At that time Trinidad and Tobago’s achievement would have been more monumental with the medal haul… and (my) team-mates could have benefited financially with the gold medal,” the 35-year-old said.

“But, the fact still remains with this confirmation, the team will be part of an elite fraternity of Olympic gold medallists, and that title cannot be taken from us.” Burns sympathised with Bolt and the other Jamaican athletes who were penalised for Carter’s actions. “(However) it is still disheartening for clean athletes to lose out when we try do things the right way,” he said.

“Bolt’s legacy has already been cemented as one of the greatest athletes to ever grace the sport of track and field and his achievements will remain for generations to come.”

Newsday also spoke with TT Olympic Committee (TTOC) president Brian Lewis who said the local governing body will wait until it receives official correspondence from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) before making a full statement. Pending this communication, Lewis said “it’s (still) one of those moments where it’s not an overwhelming sense of jubilation or triumph” given the time lapse and the repercussions for the Jamaican athletes.

“It will always be a bitter sweet scenario because we are one Caribbean people,” he said. Lewis lauded the IOC for its “determination to address the issue of doping in sport.”

“The T&T Olympic Committee, which is in fact the de facto national anti-doping organisation at this point in time, remains firmly committed to clean sport and clean athletes,” said Lewis.

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Football / Re: Howard University Thread
« on: May 29, 2018, 01:35:55 PM »
If you haven't seen this--I just looked it up myself--here's a link:

http://theundefeated.com/videos/redemption-song/


Howard’s 1971 title was cruelly snatched away from them, but they had their day, as Phillips had his, in 1974 when they again won the NCAA Division I trophy, this time for keeps. The thrills and emotions of that memorable triumph are depicted in the ESPN Films Spike Lee Lil Joint documentary, Redemption Song. And surely Aqui played a big part in the events leading to that belated celebration.

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