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Football / Re: In defense of Lasana Liburd..letter I jes email tuh all de Newspapers in T&T
« on: January 13, 2006, 05:38:45 PM »
That is a pefect letter. Truetrini, I salute you
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Football / Carlos Edwards' peformance against Wolves
« on: January 13, 2006, 05:28:14 PM »
First half was a scrappy affair with both sides struggling to get any kind of passing rhythm going. I think there was only one shot on target in whole of that first half and that was an easy save for the Luton goalie. Our boy looked sharp and his first touch and control of the ball was precise and he managed to get 2 or 3 good crosses into the danger area. His position play was much better than in the Liverpool game. In that game I was a little critical of his habit to ball-watch when Luton lost possession and trying to react to the counterattack instead of anticipating it. I know that Carlos is a winger and there's an argument that we should be more concerned with what he does with the ball going forward, instead of worrying about him tracking back etc. However, I think that if we're going to have any sucess in Germany, the team will have to work harder off the ball. That means the whole team defending as one, including strikers and wingers. Anyways, tonight Carlos' work rate was much better and he was tracking back and helping out his right-back on numerous occasions
The second half was a much more open affair although it has to be said it was still a poor game. It also has to said that in the second half Carlos was a little anonymous, that is until the 76th minute when he suddenly exploded into life. Picking up the ball in the right channel on the halfway line, he drove forward a la Steven Gerrald beating two defenders and tried a left-foot shot from just outside the penalty box, but unfortunately his shot was charged down by a defender. A minute later he received the ball on the right wing and fired in a low cross which the striker got a foot to, but his effort was blocked by a defender and rebounded to Carlos who was just inside the penalty box on the right side. Carlos fired it right-footed across goal just missing a yard wide of the left post. Then on eighty minutes, Carlos hit a magnificent 50 yard diagonal pass (again a la Steven Gerrald) right into the path of a striker who was in on goal and should have scored but the defender got the better of him and managed to clear the ball. That passage of play eventually lead to the free-kick from which Luton equalised. Paul Ince managed to tief the game for Wolves with a fierce drive with only minutes to go, so it was a bad night for Luton Town, but as far as our boy was concerned, I thought it was good all-round performance. He was running the full ninety + 3 minutes, his control and first touch was good, he tracked back when required and for a five minute period in the second half, he was looking like Stevie Gerrald at his best
The second half was a much more open affair although it has to be said it was still a poor game. It also has to said that in the second half Carlos was a little anonymous, that is until the 76th minute when he suddenly exploded into life. Picking up the ball in the right channel on the halfway line, he drove forward a la Steven Gerrald beating two defenders and tried a left-foot shot from just outside the penalty box, but unfortunately his shot was charged down by a defender. A minute later he received the ball on the right wing and fired in a low cross which the striker got a foot to, but his effort was blocked by a defender and rebounded to Carlos who was just inside the penalty box on the right side. Carlos fired it right-footed across goal just missing a yard wide of the left post. Then on eighty minutes, Carlos hit a magnificent 50 yard diagonal pass (again a la Steven Gerrald) right into the path of a striker who was in on goal and should have scored but the defender got the better of him and managed to clear the ball. That passage of play eventually lead to the free-kick from which Luton equalised. Paul Ince managed to tief the game for Wolves with a fierce drive with only minutes to go, so it was a bad night for Luton Town, but as far as our boy was concerned, I thought it was good all-round performance. He was running the full ninety + 3 minutes, his control and first touch was good, he tracked back when required and for a five minute period in the second half, he was looking like Stevie Gerrald at his best
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Football / Re: Forum Names: Allyuh try and come original nah?
« on: January 09, 2006, 01:53:06 PM »
Guilty as charged 
but I would like to plead in mitigation that I was unware there was another member with a similar username
but I would like to plead in mitigation that I was unware there was another member with a similar username
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General Discussion / Re: DJ’s anti-Trini comments anger NY’s Caribbean immigrants
« on: January 09, 2006, 01:45:13 PM »
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Football / Great white hope
« on: January 09, 2006, 01:37:32 PM »
Great white hope
By Stewart Fisher (Sunday Herald)
TRINIDAD and Tobago will be relying on the loyalties of some unorthodox Soca Warriors this summer. Not only can the island Caribbean nation already lay claim to the support of the Tartan Army, they can also be sure of the efforts of a wholehearted 21-year-old from the Midlands when they take on Group B rivals England in Nuremberg on June 15.
Four years after watching his beloved England take on the world from his local in the Staffordshire town of Stone, Chris Birchall has blazed an unlikely trail to the epicentre of world football. Not only is he the first white player for 60 years to play for Trinidad and Tobago, the country of his mother Jenny’s birth, but he is also the first Port Vale player to appear at the World Cup finals.
“I still can’t believe it,” said the winger, who plays in a more central role for his country. “Me playing on the biggest stage against the best players in the world. In particular, I can’t wait for the England game. I still want England to do well – if they don’t knock us out. I think they have one of the best squads they have ever had and with the players they’ve got they could go far.”
A stunning 30-yard strike in the playoffs against Bahrain means there is little doubt that Birchall has earned his place in Germany, but as late as April last year the player was still pottering around in the Potteries. During a routine Championship League One match against Wrexham, mammoth T&T defender Dennis Lawrence sidled up to him for confirmation that he was indeed eligible for the Soca Warriors. When he answered in the affirmative, the conference duly continued after the game, and before long Lawrence had put him in touch with Mike Berry, who liaises with all Trinidad’s British-based players.
A call-up for the qualifying matches against Panama and Mexico soon followed, fortunately co-inciding with the arrival of veteran Dutch coach Leo Beenhakker and an unlikely upturn in the nation’s fortunes. Birchall has found the entire qualifying experience, clinched with a two-legged play-off against Bahrain, a humbling one. After the away leg victory, Dwight Yorke and Russell Latapy were in floods of tears, and Birchall already regards both Latapy and Rangers defender Marvin Andrews as good friends.
“I didn’t realise just how important the game was to him [Latapy],” Birchall said. “He is coming to the end of his time as a player, and after it he just said it meant so much to him, and thanks to me for playing a part. When I was first introduced to the lads it felt a bit like a screen test, but people in Trinidad, they always seem so relaxed. I am also good friends with big Marvin, he is such a friendly guy.”
At the time of his change of allegiance, Birchall’s father Phil had expressed concerns about whether his son would be accepted by the Port of Spain home crowd, but there is little doubt at the moment. Aside from a minor controversy when he had to have the words to the T&T national anthem written down for him to learn, such worries have been overcome with the minimum of fuss.
“That was one of the main things I was worried about, but everything has been fine,” Birchall said. “Not only was I a white guy playing for Trinidad and Tobago for the first time in 60 years but I was also from England – so that is why it has been so great the way I have been accepted. I have been to the local nightclubs and met a lot of the local people.”
His mother was even flown out as guest of honour to the qualifying game against Mexico, at the behest of Trinidad and Tobago’s Concacaf boss Jack Warner.
T&T have no pedigree in the world game, but Beenhakker is the kind of coach who can use that as a weapon. “I don’t think anyone expected us to qualify in the first place,” Birchall said. “I think even the lads were a bit surprised but Beenhakker in not the kind of guy who is going to go anywhere just to make up the numbers. He has brought a lot of confidence to the team so who knows? Nine times out of 10 you would expect England and Sweden to get through but if we can get a point from England or Sweden then who knows what will happen?”
At his age, and stage of his career, Birchall himself can hardly lose after a three-week training camp in Austria is out of the way. “For the month or so that we’re going to be there I am just going to enjoy it all, drink it all in,” he said. “Most of our experienced players know this will be the last chance, the youth set-up is not quite up to standard. In the last four games he [Beenhakker] has been playing Stern John as a striker, with Dwight Yorke back in midfield so I just do his donkey work.”
By Stewart Fisher (Sunday Herald)
TRINIDAD and Tobago will be relying on the loyalties of some unorthodox Soca Warriors this summer. Not only can the island Caribbean nation already lay claim to the support of the Tartan Army, they can also be sure of the efforts of a wholehearted 21-year-old from the Midlands when they take on Group B rivals England in Nuremberg on June 15.
Four years after watching his beloved England take on the world from his local in the Staffordshire town of Stone, Chris Birchall has blazed an unlikely trail to the epicentre of world football. Not only is he the first white player for 60 years to play for Trinidad and Tobago, the country of his mother Jenny’s birth, but he is also the first Port Vale player to appear at the World Cup finals.
“I still can’t believe it,” said the winger, who plays in a more central role for his country. “Me playing on the biggest stage against the best players in the world. In particular, I can’t wait for the England game. I still want England to do well – if they don’t knock us out. I think they have one of the best squads they have ever had and with the players they’ve got they could go far.”
A stunning 30-yard strike in the playoffs against Bahrain means there is little doubt that Birchall has earned his place in Germany, but as late as April last year the player was still pottering around in the Potteries. During a routine Championship League One match against Wrexham, mammoth T&T defender Dennis Lawrence sidled up to him for confirmation that he was indeed eligible for the Soca Warriors. When he answered in the affirmative, the conference duly continued after the game, and before long Lawrence had put him in touch with Mike Berry, who liaises with all Trinidad’s British-based players.
A call-up for the qualifying matches against Panama and Mexico soon followed, fortunately co-inciding with the arrival of veteran Dutch coach Leo Beenhakker and an unlikely upturn in the nation’s fortunes. Birchall has found the entire qualifying experience, clinched with a two-legged play-off against Bahrain, a humbling one. After the away leg victory, Dwight Yorke and Russell Latapy were in floods of tears, and Birchall already regards both Latapy and Rangers defender Marvin Andrews as good friends.
“I didn’t realise just how important the game was to him [Latapy],” Birchall said. “He is coming to the end of his time as a player, and after it he just said it meant so much to him, and thanks to me for playing a part. When I was first introduced to the lads it felt a bit like a screen test, but people in Trinidad, they always seem so relaxed. I am also good friends with big Marvin, he is such a friendly guy.”
At the time of his change of allegiance, Birchall’s father Phil had expressed concerns about whether his son would be accepted by the Port of Spain home crowd, but there is little doubt at the moment. Aside from a minor controversy when he had to have the words to the T&T national anthem written down for him to learn, such worries have been overcome with the minimum of fuss.
“That was one of the main things I was worried about, but everything has been fine,” Birchall said. “Not only was I a white guy playing for Trinidad and Tobago for the first time in 60 years but I was also from England – so that is why it has been so great the way I have been accepted. I have been to the local nightclubs and met a lot of the local people.”
His mother was even flown out as guest of honour to the qualifying game against Mexico, at the behest of Trinidad and Tobago’s Concacaf boss Jack Warner.
T&T have no pedigree in the world game, but Beenhakker is the kind of coach who can use that as a weapon. “I don’t think anyone expected us to qualify in the first place,” Birchall said. “I think even the lads were a bit surprised but Beenhakker in not the kind of guy who is going to go anywhere just to make up the numbers. He has brought a lot of confidence to the team so who knows? Nine times out of 10 you would expect England and Sweden to get through but if we can get a point from England or Sweden then who knows what will happen?”
At his age, and stage of his career, Birchall himself can hardly lose after a three-week training camp in Austria is out of the way. “For the month or so that we’re going to be there I am just going to enjoy it all, drink it all in,” he said. “Most of our experienced players know this will be the last chance, the youth set-up is not quite up to standard. In the last four games he [Beenhakker] has been playing Stern John as a striker, with Dwight Yorke back in midfield so I just do his donkey work.”
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Football / Ticket scandal rocks FIFA
« on: January 09, 2006, 01:33:51 PM »
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=5&theme=&usrsess=1&id=102209
Ticket scandal rocks Fifa
By Mario Rodrigues (The Statesman)
Jan. 8. —This might not be quite an earth-shaking event like the collapse of ISL, Fifa’s sports marketing company, on the eve of the 2002 World Cup in South Korea-Japan. But 2006 has brought along the first whiff of scandal which has rocked Fifa like an own goal even as the countdown begins for the upcoming World Cup in Germany later this summer.
According to reports appearing in the Daily News, England, and the Trinidad Express, a travel agency allegedly owned by Fifa vice-president Mr Jack Warner, also president of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football and a special adviser to the Trinidad & Tobago soccer team, has cornered all the tickets allotted to his country’s football federation for the event.
The tiny two-island nation, whose lodestar is the charismatic forward Dwight Yorke, qualified for the 2006 World Cup for the first time and have been placed in Group B along with England, Paraguay and Sweden. It has now emerged that Mr Warner’s Simpaul Travel Service has clinched an exclusive deal with the Trinidad & Tobago Football Federation to sell all their tickets for Germany - which his company is allegedly offering at premium rates, along with mandatory travel packages.
While the development raises questions regarding ethics and conflict of interest, Mr Warner has on the contrary argued that since he has “given selflessly for the cause of football” no one should “attempt to impute improper business practices and conflicts of interest to me.” A Fifa spokesman said that they had no knowledge of Mr Warner’s travel company interests.
(When the Fifa World Youth Cup was held in Trinidad & Tobago in 2001, Mr Warner’s companies were similarly alleged to have controlled exclusive contracts to supply air tickets to all competing foreign teams as well as all catering and IT deals for all the stadiums staging the event.)
The T&TFF reportedly has still not revealed how many tickets have been allotted to it by Fifa although it informed that Mr Warner has paid it $500,000 to bag the rights to be its official travel agent. According to estimates, Mr Warner’s company could make a few millions and more from ticket sales alone, let alone on travel & hotel packages.
Other countries that have qualified for the World Cup have more transparent ways of offering tickets to their football fans. For example, the Football Federation of Australia, which qualified for the finals after a gap of 32 years, informed its fans that it had 8,500 tickets for its opening three group matches before putting them up for sale in late December 2005.
There have been allegations during the 2002 World Cup, that football officials of certain countries, whose federations were allotted tickets for the event, made a killing selling them in the black market. One Fifa official is said to have pocketed a cool $250,000 from the sale of tickets for the final between Brazil and Germany at Yokohama in which the former triumphed 2-0.
Ticket scandal rocks Fifa
By Mario Rodrigues (The Statesman)
Jan. 8. —This might not be quite an earth-shaking event like the collapse of ISL, Fifa’s sports marketing company, on the eve of the 2002 World Cup in South Korea-Japan. But 2006 has brought along the first whiff of scandal which has rocked Fifa like an own goal even as the countdown begins for the upcoming World Cup in Germany later this summer.
According to reports appearing in the Daily News, England, and the Trinidad Express, a travel agency allegedly owned by Fifa vice-president Mr Jack Warner, also president of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football and a special adviser to the Trinidad & Tobago soccer team, has cornered all the tickets allotted to his country’s football federation for the event.
The tiny two-island nation, whose lodestar is the charismatic forward Dwight Yorke, qualified for the 2006 World Cup for the first time and have been placed in Group B along with England, Paraguay and Sweden. It has now emerged that Mr Warner’s Simpaul Travel Service has clinched an exclusive deal with the Trinidad & Tobago Football Federation to sell all their tickets for Germany - which his company is allegedly offering at premium rates, along with mandatory travel packages.
While the development raises questions regarding ethics and conflict of interest, Mr Warner has on the contrary argued that since he has “given selflessly for the cause of football” no one should “attempt to impute improper business practices and conflicts of interest to me.” A Fifa spokesman said that they had no knowledge of Mr Warner’s travel company interests.
(When the Fifa World Youth Cup was held in Trinidad & Tobago in 2001, Mr Warner’s companies were similarly alleged to have controlled exclusive contracts to supply air tickets to all competing foreign teams as well as all catering and IT deals for all the stadiums staging the event.)
The T&TFF reportedly has still not revealed how many tickets have been allotted to it by Fifa although it informed that Mr Warner has paid it $500,000 to bag the rights to be its official travel agent. According to estimates, Mr Warner’s company could make a few millions and more from ticket sales alone, let alone on travel & hotel packages.
Other countries that have qualified for the World Cup have more transparent ways of offering tickets to their football fans. For example, the Football Federation of Australia, which qualified for the finals after a gap of 32 years, informed its fans that it had 8,500 tickets for its opening three group matches before putting them up for sale in late December 2005.
There have been allegations during the 2002 World Cup, that football officials of certain countries, whose federations were allotted tickets for the event, made a killing selling them in the black market. One Fifa official is said to have pocketed a cool $250,000 from the sale of tickets for the final between Brazil and Germany at Yokohama in which the former triumphed 2-0.
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Football / Re: Tony Warner is a Soca Warrior
« on: January 09, 2006, 02:28:54 AM »
This would be good news because Warner is a good solid goalkeeper
And let's face facts ladies and gentlemen. In goal, Ince is, was, and will continue to be, an accident waiting to happen...
And let's face facts ladies and gentlemen. In goal, Ince is, was, and will continue to be, an accident waiting to happen...
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Football / Re: The first world cup competition
« on: January 08, 2006, 05:00:39 AM »
I remember seeing the film, with Dennis Waterman playing one of the WA players. If I remember correctly, Juventus played them off the park in the first half, so in the half time team talk the Dennis Waterman character told his team mates to go out there and kick seven shades of shit out of the fancy Italians....... or words to that effect
They won the game and then the cup.
And so was born the [Chopper Harris/Roy Keane/Patrick Viera] style of player
They won the game and then the cup.
And so was born the [Chopper Harris/Roy Keane/Patrick Viera] style of player
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Football / Re: Lasana Liburd responds to Warner's war cry
« on: January 08, 2006, 04:18:42 AM »I applaud any man who stands by what he says after carefeul thought and examination....I met Lasana on the way to Bahrain and I don't know what his journalist credentials are but he doh seem to be the type with an agenda, at all....it is going to take more than name calling to get this to go away, no matter who you are....THE TRUTH ALWAYS wins in the end and at the end of it, someone is going to be exposed as a liar. Talk done.
The truth always comes out in the end, but more often than not, when it comes to Trinidad & Tobago, knowing the truth of the matter doesn't change a damned ting
We Trinis are the world champions when it comes to liming in rum shops cussing corrupt politicains and officials, and yet when all the talk done, nothing changes
SSDD = Same Shit Different Day
In spite of exposure, Uncle Jack will continue as FIFA vice president and "Special Advisor" (Whatever that means) to TTFF and he will continue to screw ordinary Trinis out of hard earned dollar
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Football / Re: Trinis in action (Jan 7, 2006)
« on: January 07, 2006, 05:29:53 PM »
Carlos played okayish, some good crosses but I thought his positioning could have been better when Luton lost possession. At times he was ball watching and not tracking Kewell or Riise when they moved forward into attacking positions.
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Football / Re: Which celebration yuh like?
« on: January 06, 2006, 02:26:41 PM »
Scantily-clad buxom Carib Beer Girls euphorically jumping up and down
Best. Celebration. Evah.
Best. Celebration. Evah.
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Football / Re: Tallman and everyone else
« on: January 06, 2006, 02:41:33 AM »
I think it's an excellent idea. There's been a lot of talk on this site regarding this ticket debacle, but little indication of what action we are going to do collectivley to put pressure on FIFA/TTFF etc to resolve this scandal. If this ticket debacle is not resolved to my satisfaction, I'm seriously considering staging a protest outside the TnT embassy here in London. This scandal has hit the international press now. Yesterday I was having lunch with some work mates when one of them produced a Daily Mail and there it was,"FIFA vice president embroiled in WC ticket scandal" or words to that effect. I had a very hard and embarassing time answering the questions asked by my English work colleagues. They couldn't understand how we, as a nation, could even begin to tolerate such cronyism.
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General Discussion / In This Thread, we post our predictions for 2006
« on: December 24, 2005, 01:17:06 PM »
I'll start off with:
The Soca Warriors shock the football world by drawing against Sweden and England and beating Paraguay to advance to the knock-out stages of the World Cup
On his return from the World Cup, Jack Warner is assaulted at Piarco Airport by a large crowd of angry TnT supporters who couldn't afford the TT$ 30,000 match ticket package. Majority of bystanders cheer, no charges are ever filed
Wayne Rooney wises up and dumps his fiancee Coleen McWhateverhernameis for some hot to damn european model
Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise file for divorce
The lead singer of all girl pop group Pussycat Dolls leaves the group to embark on a solo career. To give her career a boost and gain some "street cred" her first single features a well known hip hop artist (my guess it will be that dude that did a duet with Gwen Stefani, forget his name, skinny legs and baseball jacket, has a thing about skateboards)
Housing market in the US crashes, real estate values 20% down by end of year
Ford Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
GM also files for Chapter 11
The Trinidad & Tobago air bridge goes into financial meltdown and collapses, govt. refuses to bail them out so everyone has to catch the boat
The Soca Warriors shock the football world by drawing against Sweden and England and beating Paraguay to advance to the knock-out stages of the World Cup
On his return from the World Cup, Jack Warner is assaulted at Piarco Airport by a large crowd of angry TnT supporters who couldn't afford the TT$ 30,000 match ticket package. Majority of bystanders cheer, no charges are ever filed
Wayne Rooney wises up and dumps his fiancee Coleen McWhateverhernameis for some hot to damn european model
Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise file for divorce
The lead singer of all girl pop group Pussycat Dolls leaves the group to embark on a solo career. To give her career a boost and gain some "street cred" her first single features a well known hip hop artist (my guess it will be that dude that did a duet with Gwen Stefani, forget his name, skinny legs and baseball jacket, has a thing about skateboards)
Housing market in the US crashes, real estate values 20% down by end of year
Ford Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
GM also files for Chapter 11
The Trinidad & Tobago air bridge goes into financial meltdown and collapses, govt. refuses to bail them out so everyone has to catch the boat
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Football / Re: Adams Laughs Off Stern Rumours
« on: December 24, 2005, 12:28:09 PM »Said Micky Adams, who is expected to field John in one of the matches over the Christmas/New Year period:"I obviously don't read the same papers as you lot. "That one wasn't in my Sunday Sport".
@ Micky Adams. For those of you not familiar with it, the Sunday Sport isn't really a sports paper as such, it's the UK equivalent of TnT's Sunday Punch, but even more raunchy
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Football / Re: to all the scotland fans....lets hear some anti-english football chants
« on: December 24, 2005, 09:46:11 AM »
It is my understanding that when David Beckham was taking corners for Man Utd., much to his chagrin, the opposition supporters would sing (to the tune of De Camp Town Races) "Posh Spice takes it up the arse, do dah, do dah, Posh Spice takes it up the arse, oh do dah day"
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Football / Re: Hislop disappointed with Di Canio
« on: December 22, 2005, 11:26:38 AM »
To ribbit,
you state that there is some doubt as to Di Canio's intent, and that he should be giving the benefit of that doubt
hmm...... i would say that the "Roman" salute to a fan base that has a notorious facist element is very damning, but the clincher for me is the Mussolini tattoo
sorry, in my mind there is no doubt, he's as guilty as a puppy sitting next to a pile of dog poo
you state that there is some doubt as to Di Canio's intent, and that he should be giving the benefit of that doubt
hmm...... i would say that the "Roman" salute to a fan base that has a notorious facist element is very damning, but the clincher for me is the Mussolini tattoo
sorry, in my mind there is no doubt, he's as guilty as a puppy sitting next to a pile of dog poo
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Football / Re: Stern John reportedly a target for Paris St. Germain
« on: December 21, 2005, 01:27:24 PM »http://www.psg.fr/fr/home/home.html
anyone know french as I cant find any info about this
i think we all need the facts
Thanks
My French is hardly fluent but I know enoough to get by. There is no mention on that site of Stern John or any other possible transfer targets. That is not unusual as official club sites almost never notify the public of their transfer targets, unless it's a really top player (for example, Barcalona's interest in T. Henry) Usually they prefer to keep such matters behind closed doors so as not to comprimise any possible negotiations/
I've just taken a quick look at the L'Equipe website and again there's no mention of the Stern John story/rumour. However, there was an article about Pauleta injuring his back in training last week and is doubtful for this weekend. Although, the tone of the article didn't suggest that the injury was a long-term concern...
And in reply to your earlier question, I think it was the Daily Star but it might have been the Daily Mirror (neither of which are hardly a beacon for English Journalism)
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Football / Stern John reportedly a target for Paris St. Germain
« on: December 21, 2005, 11:53:20 AM »
It was reported in one of the tabloid papers here in London today, that PSG are to make a "shock move for Coventry's Stern John in January" or words to that effect
There were no other details, the story was literally one sentence in the Football shorts section
There were no other details, the story was literally one sentence in the Football shorts section
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Football / Re: Ronaldinho: Well Done T&T
« on: December 20, 2005, 04:16:41 PM »
I've always liked this player. I thought it was shameful the way our stewards manhandled him after the Chelsea - Barca game last season
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Football / Re: FIFA threatens legal action over World Cup rubbish sale
« on: December 20, 2005, 04:07:25 PM »
Dear KND2,
The point you made about TnT youth football is noted
However let us be clear on something. By the time this World Cup is over, myself and many thousands of Trinis from around the world, including members from this forum, will have spent considerably larger sums of money following/supporting T&T's World Cup campaign. Compared to the cost of travelling to Germany, accommodation, match tickets etc. TT$2,000 is a drop in the ocean. I myself will not be travelling to Germany. Alas I am not as rich as you may think I am. I do actually have to work for a living. Although I'm self-employed, which in theory means I can take time off work whenever I want, the reality is somewhat different. Summertime is a busy period for my business and it's simply impossible for me to take the time off. Overheads still have to paid.
Although the name tag in question is indeed a "useless item" i believe it to be a unique and valuable item. What that value is remains to be seen
That name tag is now a part of TnT football history. When that useless item was pulled from the hat to place us in the same group as England, Trinis all over the world gasped in shock/cheered in celebration etc. etc. etc.
Any Trini who watched the live draw will remember the feeling/emotion they experienced at that moment that useless scrap of paper was drawn
It has to be said that this may be the only World Cup Finals that TnT will ever participate in. Of course I hoping like f**k this is not the case, but it has to be considered a possibility that the feeling/emotion that we Trinis all experienced, may never be repeated...
If that name tag is listed, I very much doubt if my intended £200 bid will be enough to secure it. I am quite certain that there will be other Trinis with considerably more disposable income than myself, who will recognise the significance and emotion that is attached to that name tag. If I could afford it, I would bid over £2,000 for that scrap of TnT football history
The point you made about TnT youth football is noted
However let us be clear on something. By the time this World Cup is over, myself and many thousands of Trinis from around the world, including members from this forum, will have spent considerably larger sums of money following/supporting T&T's World Cup campaign. Compared to the cost of travelling to Germany, accommodation, match tickets etc. TT$2,000 is a drop in the ocean. I myself will not be travelling to Germany. Alas I am not as rich as you may think I am. I do actually have to work for a living. Although I'm self-employed, which in theory means I can take time off work whenever I want, the reality is somewhat different. Summertime is a busy period for my business and it's simply impossible for me to take the time off. Overheads still have to paid.
Although the name tag in question is indeed a "useless item" i believe it to be a unique and valuable item. What that value is remains to be seen
That name tag is now a part of TnT football history. When that useless item was pulled from the hat to place us in the same group as England, Trinis all over the world gasped in shock/cheered in celebration etc. etc. etc.
Any Trini who watched the live draw will remember the feeling/emotion they experienced at that moment that useless scrap of paper was drawn
It has to be said that this may be the only World Cup Finals that TnT will ever participate in. Of course I hoping like f**k this is not the case, but it has to be considered a possibility that the feeling/emotion that we Trinis all experienced, may never be repeated...
If that name tag is listed, I very much doubt if my intended £200 bid will be enough to secure it. I am quite certain that there will be other Trinis with considerably more disposable income than myself, who will recognise the significance and emotion that is attached to that name tag. If I could afford it, I would bid over £2,000 for that scrap of TnT football history
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Football / Re: FIFA threatens legal action over World Cup rubbish sale
« on: December 20, 2005, 02:44:48 PM »Ah wonder how much de Trinidad and Tobago tag would go for
When/If it gets listed, I will bid at least 200 English pounds for it (or whatever the equilivant is in Euros)
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Football / In This Thread, we list reasons why T&T has a chance of a result against England
« on: December 20, 2005, 02:42:02 PM »
I'll start off with:
1. In Leo Beenhakker, the Soca Warriors have a coach who is capable of getting the best team performance from a group of average players, whereas in Sven Goran Errikson, England have a coach who is capable of getting the very worst performance from a team blessed with world class players
1. In Leo Beenhakker, the Soca Warriors have a coach who is capable of getting the best team performance from a group of average players, whereas in Sven Goran Errikson, England have a coach who is capable of getting the very worst performance from a team blessed with world class players