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Football / Re: Spoke to Latas when I went to T&T.
« on: June 05, 2009, 02:25:12 PM »
for about 5 seconds ah thought this was real then ah see who post it and by that time the man was talking bout playstation ;D

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Football / Re: Khaleem Hyland's brother murdered
« on: June 02, 2009, 08:53:57 AM »
My sincere condolences to the Hyland family.  I love mih country and when I left ah always told mihself that in a few years ah coming back home but this kinda f**kery does put doubts in mih mind now.  Is every friggin day tings like this happening.  Imagine effin Ja. have less murders.

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Football / Re: Sancho and Tiger in USL Team of the Week
« on: May 13, 2009, 12:32:26 PM »
Ways ah fuhget to post dis bout ten times now.  Austin, TX finally get ah pro football team.  Ah went to see 2 Austin Aztexs games in the last few weeks. The Aztecs have no TnT players but ah make ah effort to go see the games when the visiting teams have Trinis.  First game was vs the Cleveland City Stars.  Was hoping to see Cruickshank play.  Ah had to look him up on the web to see what he look like.  All I knew about him was that he played for them before but got injured and returned home and played for Ma Pau last year but he back for them this year.  He was signed about a week before the game so maybe that was part of the reason he didn't play.  Cleveland looked like a shit site I figure Cali/Connection/Jaobloteh/Public could put some goals on them.  That game ended 3-0 in favour of the Aztex. 

The next game was the one I was looking forward a lil more too.  This was against the PR Islanders and ah was looking forward to see Jaggy in person.  Some ah allyuh mighta see this game on TV it was on Fox Soccer.  Jaggy started and had some decent touches but nothing of real substance, he picked up a card and then kinda drifted outta the game.  Jaggy loook kinda magga from where I was but he definitely have potential.  One for the future for sure.  The most impressive man on the field for PRIs that night was Arrieta and he on the team of the week.  From the start of this game the Islanders looked a class above the Cleveland City Stars.  First half the Aztexs were only running behind the ball and ah thought they was going down by a few goals.  Half ended 1-0 to the islanders.  At the half like they get some good cuss from the coach and was a different game in the second half.  Game ended in a deserved 1-1 draw.

Ah was hoping to check out Tiger and Sancho on June 21 but ah making a trip to sweet TnT on the 18th.  Well ah go post some more anytime one ah we boys in town.

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I went to see the City Stars play the Austin Aztexs in Austin last week but it like he din play that game or at least I couldn't make him out (ah have to admit ah had to check the team page to see what he look like)  Ah check the roster afer the game and he wasn't listed as one of the eleven or the subs that played.  The Stars din look too impressive cos they went down 3-0 to the Aztexs and this is their first USL 1 season.  Ah hoping to take in the game next week when the Aztexs play the Islanders and see Jagdeosing on the field.  Never really see him play but he seem like he have promise.  That game supposed to be on Fox Soccer too.

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Football / Re: Ronaldo Returns!
« on: April 28, 2009, 01:53:42 PM »
I would give anything to see KJ trap ah ball like Ronaldo did on the first goal ........

dread ah was thinking that same thing.  a lil more weight, slower but them touches and the vision.  i waiting to see how long it go take dunga to give him a call

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs El Salvador game (11-Feb-2009).
« on: February 11, 2009, 07:01:01 PM »
dread ah sound real dotish fuh askin that yes but thanks

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs El Salvador game (11-Feb-2009).
« on: February 11, 2009, 06:53:47 PM »
but the ctnt feed is audio only?

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs El Salvador game (11-Feb-2009).
« on: February 11, 2009, 06:52:57 PM »
thank yuh.

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs El Salvador game (11-Feb-2009).
« on: February 11, 2009, 06:45:53 PM »
i watching dis http://www.justin.tv/canal_99

the quality decent but anybody find ah feed with english commentary?

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Football / Re: The unofficial Pardners POSTS of the year 2008.
« on: January 20, 2009, 03:36:15 PM »
ah remember reading sam post while ah was in work and ah had to put mih hand over mh mouth a few times to stifle the laughter.  in fact ah think ah stop reading cos ah wanted to buss out some big laugh and ah finish reading it at home.  ah din see that TI one before but that one jus defy logic

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Football / Re: Anybody here ever play football in de snow.
« on: January 15, 2009, 10:51:15 AM »
i ain't play in snow cos it jus doh snow that often in Austin but it does still get cold.  Ah play ah few times at night on Clark field on UT campus when it was 3 or 4C and windy.  That field is only a field in name cos where we was playing regularly was really jus gravel so yuh ain't want to fall.  I start out in a tshirt, hoodie, beanie (hat), shorts, football socks, and a track pants.  After de body warm up ah used to lose the long pants sometimes.  Dread yuh does see steam rising from yuh body and breathinng in that cold air after a hard run is something else.  And of course the ground like concrete.  But all in all once yuh start running yuh doh really think about it.

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Football / Re: Jamal Gay on trial at 2nd div. Rot-Weiss Oberhausen
« on: January 15, 2009, 10:42:49 AM »
now this sounding real positive.  all the best bro

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Football / Re: Best Big Men in the Game
« on: December 15, 2008, 11:10:03 AM »
so wha about Gullit.  He was about 6 2', 190 lbs in he playin days, plus dem dreads psychologically add a few more inches and 20-30 lbs .... so 6 4' and 220lbs coming at the opposition.

for local men ... richard chinapoo maybe ... all i could tink bout is that man could kick hard dread

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Football / Re: Lisana Liburd Pays Tribute to the Pro Leagues Top Performers
« on: December 04, 2008, 09:03:43 AM »
this article was entertaining, especially the last part.  sometimes local articles does be so boring but this at least showed some creativity in delvering the writer's opinion.  ah probably didn't agree with everything but good job dey lasana. 

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Football / Amr Zaki - Wigan
« on: October 25, 2008, 12:22:24 PM »
So he ain't trini but if yuh following the EPL yuh cyah help but notice.  Check the goal vs liverpool.  The man is top scorer in the EPL with 7 in 8 games .... yuh think wigan regret not signing him permanently.  Big fellah strong and is a big target man up front.  Dis is the kinda thing I could see KJ doing in a few few weeks.

link to the liverpool highlights ... it lower down the page

http://goal2net.blogspot.com/search/label/Liverpool

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ah cyah complain at all.  they run a good time and they get beat by a phenomenal team in a WR time.  Ah glad fuh so at least we get beat by yardies and not the US.  Now WADA going and start to test everything we does eat in JA an TnT.  Well don boys!

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So the article kinda long but at least some US journalists are willing to open their eyes a lil bit.  Ah not saying everybody is ah cheat but ..  Anyway nuff respect to Ato

When Marion Jones wasn’t fending off allegations that she cheated during the last two Summer Olympics – “I never failed a drug test” – she loved to wax about the most sentimental of motivations, her “joy of representing my country.”

She was just a California kid, fueled by national pride not performance-enhancing drugs, she said. She won five medals, three of them gold, and had the powers that be cover her in swooshes, wrap her in a flag and sell her as the All-American Girl. We were supposed to be honored to have her compete for us.

Now here come the Olympics again and Jones is sitting in a Fort Worth, Texas, prison broke and busted with her medals stripped and her old sport – Track and Fraud – in tatters.  She was right about one thing – Marion Jones never failed a drug test. The first allegations heaved at her came when she was a sophomore in high school (Johnnie Cochran successfully defended her). Still, they never did figure out a test that could catch her sophisticated doping act. Like Capone, essentially it was the IRS that got her.  She admits now she cheated her spandex off back in Sydney, back when she was supposedly representing America, from sea to shining sea and all of that.

As the Beijing Games approach all anyone can do is hope, unlike in years past, those representing our nation actually consider it more than a marketing ploy.  If you want to best honor America, it isn’t to get “The Star-Spangled Banner” to cascade into the Chinese night by any means necessary. It’s to lose.  Cleanly, that is.

Go ahead and not medal. Go ahead and “fail.” Go for the bronze. Then hold your head high. If you can win honestly, that’s great. If not, just stay home. If everyone else is cheating, then let them.

If the United States can wind up with a team that didn’t debase itself, that didn’t fall into scandal, that doesn’t have its signature athlete in the federal clink when the 2012 London Games roll around, then it is far better than the false pride and fool’s gold of years past. Let China and others compete for that ridiculous “total medal” count, like it means anything anyway.

It’s bad enough when any athlete cheats. The unraveling of a Floyd Landis, a Barry Bonds or a Roger Clemens is a spectacle of karma coming due. In those cases, though, they generally only hurt themselves. That’s pro sports, where everyone is an individual mercenary.

To take the world stage as a member of Team USA, ostensibly representing our nation’s values and culture, with PEDs in your system is far worse. Yes, it’s just sports – not war or politics or pollution. Still, you can’t bask in (and cash in on) bringing America glory when you win and not deliver equal shame when you’re caught.

“It is really very simple,” Ato Boldon said in a newspaper in his native Trinidad and Tobago. Boldon is a hero in the tiny Caribbean nation for his four medals as a sprinter in the 1996 and 2000 Games. In three of those races, Boldon was defeated by someone who wound up either an admitted or suspected drug cheat.
Boldon remained above reproach, maybe because he understood the Olympics were more than snagging a shoe deal.


“I would have loved to have four gold medals,” Boldon said. “However, I would not have wanted to have those four gold medals right now (and) have the eyes of the world thinking Trinidad and Tobago is a place where it’s OK to cut corners. The reputation of my country was a lot more important to me than any medal and cheating.”


Is it too much to ask for the American team to care that much about, you know, America?

Nike – the ubiquitous United States Olympic Committee sponsor – may have declared at the 1996 Games that “you don’t win silver, you lose gold,” but none of it counts as winning if you have to return the medals in the end like their girl Marion.

The truth is, it doesn’t really count if you get to keep them, either.

Unquestionably the anti-doping officials won’t catch the cheats. They rarely do. The money and motivation is in the crime, not in the investigation. The athletes will do anything. The testers will do what they can.

Jones was a long-term, systematic doper surrounded by long-term, systematic dopers, yet she repeatedly and boldly called out the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) like her old competitors on the starting line (“Catch me if you can”). She forever pointed to her perfect record against their tests. Then she’d whine about how unfair it was for innocent folks like her.

In Marion’s case, it was easy to talk like that when she knew they weren’t looking for the right thing. USADA tests were like giving a breathalyzer to someone on cocaine. It isn’t all that different now.

USADA’s Travis Tygart said his organization can’t apply its best (and most expensive) tests all year round due to a lack of funds. While they still catch some – swimmer Jessica Hardy was nailed with a positive test this summer – it’s a glaring loophole for athletes. The amount needed to close it? A paltry $2 million. McDonald’s, Coca-Cola and all those other Olympic sponsors could fill that gap with change in the sofa.

At least if they cared, they could. Or thought anyone else did.

“I abhor doping; it drives me crazy,” former U.S. swimmer Gary Hall Jr. said. “What bothers me most about it is the resignation and the attitude of a lot of the public that it’s just part of sport today.

“We need to get over that, because it’s not OK. It’s more than just cheating. It’s the future of sport, not just the livelihood and dreams of the athletes.”

Much is being made – mostly by swimmer Dara Torres – about USADA’s enhanced drug testing pilot program. Torres uses her voluntary participation in it to defend against skeptics who can’t figure out how a 41-year-old woman with one kid, two major surgeries and a recent beneficial asthma diagnosis just happened to become a gold medal favorite over athletes two decades her junior.

Fair or not, she’s taken over Marion Jones’ old spot of these games. Her story is simply too good for any but the most naive to categorically trust.  The USADA program really isn’t much of a cover, either. At one point it was called “Project Believe.” The name was scrapped, though, perhaps because even its administrators don’t fully believe in it.

“I want to be absolutely clear, we can’t guarantee (it),” Tygart said of a drug-free U.S. Olympic team. “It’s sad and it’s unfortunate.”  So once again we go into the Summer Games with no safety net of anti-doping tests to save us from the skepticism borne of past scandals.  The NBC propaganda machine will almost assuredly promote Torres, this sent-from-heaven-ratings-bonanza, as driven-snow pure. She’ll just be a middle-aged super mom doing it for her country.  And maybe she is. Not that anyone can be sure.

Jones, after all, got her medals once, got her fame and commercial fortune, got her fawning praise as a humble American hero.  She never failed a test, she noted. She was just representing her country, she pleaded.  Today, she is in prison and you can only hope our Olympians understand what Ato Boldon was saying – that a dignified bronze can be the best victory of all.

Dan Wetzel is Yahoo! Sports' national columnist. Send Dan a question or comment for potential use in a future column or webcast.

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Football / Re: T&T Football Cult Heroes
« on: July 30, 2008, 12:50:55 PM »
I doh really post too often but this is jus one ah the most interesting threads in ah long time.  Is real good to hear the stories from some ah the senior warriors. 

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Football / Re: Man City vs Sunderland
« on: November 05, 2007, 11:27:55 AM »
jefferz go make me lorse my wuk for bussin out ah big laugh in the office.  the man brighten up mih day with that post yes.

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Football / Re: Sunderland vs Brimingham
« on: August 15, 2007, 07:52:28 PM »
thank yuh fuh the highlights.  big up to stern.  that run that carlos make in the end was pure class

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Football / Setanta now on Dish Network - free preview
« on: August 12, 2007, 09:17:58 PM »
Just passing along some info for the foreign based who have Dish Network or thinking about getting it.  Setanta is one ah the free preview channels right now.  Check it out before it gone.  Ah doh know prices an ting but it wasn't available before. 

As for the commentary it decent not some over-americanized crap that does come on espn or fox.  today they show chelsea-b'ham and metz-lille and ah think they show one other EPL game too.  ah dunno what they show yesterday cos is only today ah realize ah had that channel.

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Football / Re: Check who in d Premier League top 10
« on: August 08, 2007, 11:50:35 AM »
D Rolls Royce !!

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Football / Re: Jan Michael gets contract offer from Sheffield United.
« on: July 25, 2007, 11:50:14 AM »
i was never really too confident in jan cos my heart used to be racing when he was in on the action.  but the man real improve, especially from the lil bit i see of the gold cup.  big up to jan, impove yuh skills so yuh could perform fuh the warriors and make some money too!

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Football / Re: maradona (ah likkle entertainment)
« on: July 24, 2007, 11:47:20 AM »
diego is the greatest yes

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Football / Re: Hughes Hails Old-Stager Latapy
« on: April 10, 2007, 03:18:36 PM »
aight so i latas is my all time favourite trini baller and beenie f*** him and we up for the WC but who else seeing the big time mamaguy from hughes 8)  ah mean latas deserve all the praise he gettin an ting but it reach the point where is almost like hughes kissin he a**.  my feeling is that latas givin out a vibes that he want to call it quits after this season but hughes know that is in the best interest of falkirk if latas stick around for another season.  is jus me or anybody else thinking that?

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Football / Re: SUNDERLAND 2 SOUTHAMPTON 1 highlights
« on: April 10, 2007, 03:07:40 PM »
i was wondering when somebody was going an say something bout the commentry.  that man was sounding orgasmic over dem goals.  big up to carlos!!! .. and dwight and stern

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Football / Re: A big thank you to your 3 Trini's
« on: March 04, 2007, 11:36:35 AM »
Ah hope the injury to carlos is nutten serious.  cos the way the man playing is only ah injury could slow him down. 

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Football / Re: Thread for the W Connection vs CD Guadalajara Return Game.
« on: February 28, 2007, 07:05:43 PM »
FSC saying 9 eastern on the online guide.

ah hope connection come thru tonight cos i share real real talk for some mexican partners in work today

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Football / Re: Jack Warner strikes again
« on: January 30, 2007, 04:34:25 PM »
say what yuh want bout jackula but right is right.  no country have a right to have a vice president.

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Haiti game, the re-match.
« on: January 23, 2007, 04:51:14 PM »
tallman yuh make mih day.  ah now leaving work and ah hustling to go home.  ah go miss the first few minutes but ah cyah complain cos ah go be seeing live instead ah listening to commentry.

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