2431
Football / Re: Beenie is ah boss
« on: October 12, 2005, 09:54:49 PM »
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2432
Football / Re: CAMAROON STAR FRIGHTEN!!
« on: October 11, 2005, 02:12:23 PM »
its unfortunate to hear about this. it takes a big man to even step up and take responsibility. i respect try and fail rather than fail to try. but lawd, 5th minute of injury time. pressure!!!!!
2433
Football / Re: tt sports shop jerseys
« on: September 21, 2005, 10:31:04 AM »
they probably thinking that once we qualify for germany some big kit manufacturer will buy out their contract or something like that so they dont want to make new kits.
2434
Football / Re: Littbarski backs Yorke
« on: September 15, 2005, 02:39:40 PM »
GOL TV check your local listings if you have it.
2435
Fantasy League / All d men who have Henry in dey fantasy squad as d skipper!
« on: September 12, 2005, 06:09:58 PM »
you better sell fast. he out for a month!!!
2436
Football / Re: not over yet but....................
« on: September 07, 2005, 10:06:40 PM »
we aint dead yet. we hadda rely on mexico to rough up guatemala in d next rounds dey still smarting over dat loss to d US plus dey playing at home so guatemala aint winning, panama dead so we have a chance to win away. come down to d last rounds we go be on 10 and guatemala on 8. desitiny in our own hands
2437
Football / Re: Viewing/Listening to Costa Rica vs T&T
« on: September 07, 2005, 06:38:15 PM »
just got a confirmation from homeview dat d game broadcasting at 10 sharp
2438
Football / Re: Fellas watch the Guat 2nd Gaol...look like Dog nursing to me
« on: September 06, 2005, 12:48:09 PM »
which part? it just seemed like he didnt put enough pressure on d ball. probably because ruiz was done in d box already.
2439
Football / Re: NY POSSE, FIRE BRAND & WARRIORS THANKS !!
« on: September 05, 2005, 12:24:57 PM »
yea fellas i was in continental on saturday too!! nice lime and i see d famous shit talker KND with he crutches. we actually had as much trinis as guatemalans in dey so i was feeling safe. even though when dey score the second goal and start to pelt beer i was ready to grab for meh chair but it went down kool. it would ah be tough of we had to run but we would ah leave KND behind (sacrificial lamb). joking!!
2440
Football / Re: Attack With Full Force , Stern Have to Start
« on: August 31, 2005, 02:28:06 PM »
Correct me if i'm wrong but has anybody ever remembered stern john as a hustle man, running down defenders and making tackles? Not me. His deficencies are becoming more visual due to his lack of scoring but that was when he played with better and younger players around him. a younger latapy, a younger eve, a younger nixon, a more focused dwarkia. a fit carlos edwards, a striker will have a lot more opportunities with a midfield like that behind him as opposed to the one we've had over the last 10 games or so.
2442
Football / Re: Local girls maul St Vincent 18-0.
« on: August 21, 2005, 12:11:24 PM »
All of this is well and good, but when time to play in the women's gold cup we become the recipient of the mauling from the states, canada and mexico. we need to play against more quality opposition to get real match experience.
2443
Football / Re: Video Highlights of USA vs T&T
« on: August 18, 2005, 03:16:27 PM »
what have we done in the last 15 years to earn any respect on the international level?
2444
Football / Re: Panama 1- Gutemala0- 19th Minute
« on: August 17, 2005, 09:36:02 PM »
we getting the other results we need to stay in the race
2445
Football / Re: Any one get cards.. we all no lawrence any one else?
« on: August 17, 2005, 09:08:45 PM »
i actually thought we got a lot of 50/50 calls we never get those.
2446
Football / Re: DIS GO MAKE YUH VEX or it go be a reality check
« on: August 17, 2005, 08:45:38 PM »
did you see the game? one thing i saw tonight was fight. 10 men fighting for each other. this was an even more battling performance than the mexico game.
2447
Football / Re: Who is de most funniest, die-hard, crazy etc. poster?
« on: August 09, 2005, 06:29:58 AM »
there is nothing out there better than "The Touches Match Report" post. always a pleasure to read regardless of the outcome of the match.
2449
Football / Re: Leo BeenHakker Interview LIVE NOW on Power 105fm
« on: July 27, 2005, 04:15:05 PM »
offense wins games, defense wins championships!!!! Choose your player now.
2450
Football / Re: CONCACAF unveils 2005 Gold Cup All-Tournament Team
« on: July 23, 2005, 04:30:09 PM »
The team was selected from teams reaching the quarterfinals. hence no Trini representative.
2451
Football / Re: Thread For T&T vs Colombia.
« on: July 12, 2005, 03:55:06 PM »
half time 0-0
nothing going through midfield. players looking tired. its hot outside there too. we looking like we play two games in two days. nobody looking effective.
nothing going through midfield. players looking tired. its hot outside there too. we looking like we play two games in two days. nobody looking effective.
2452
Football / Re: Rewind: Name these players
« on: July 12, 2005, 11:58:15 AM »
Lawd ah bussin meh brains for dis one, i was like tweleve in dem days. Somebody fill in d blanks nah!!!!
1. Earl Carter
2. Clayton Morris
3. Brian Williams
4. Dexter Francis
5. Floyd Lawrence
6. Marvin Faustin
7.
8. Hutson Charles
9. Marlon Morris
10. Russell Latapy
11. Leonson Lewis
12. Paul Elliot Allen
13.
14. Philbert Jones
15.
16. Dwight Yorke
17. Kerry Jamerson
18.
19. Dexter Lee
20.
21.
22. Michael Maurice
23.
24. Maurice Alibey
1. Earl Carter
2. Clayton Morris
3. Brian Williams
4. Dexter Francis
5. Floyd Lawrence
6. Marvin Faustin
7.
8. Hutson Charles
9. Marlon Morris
10. Russell Latapy
11. Leonson Lewis
12. Paul Elliot Allen
13.
14. Philbert Jones
15.
16. Dwight Yorke
17. Kerry Jamerson
18.
19. Dexter Lee
20.
21.
22. Michael Maurice
23.
24. Maurice Alibey
2453
Football / Re: Rewind: Name these players
« on: July 12, 2005, 11:40:56 AM »
i think yorke used to wear 16 in d strike squad days
2454
Football / Re: 24 mins gone 0-0 ah buyin d Concacaf Champs - Mexico all d way
« on: June 26, 2005, 12:44:00 PM »
look out for mexico as a dark horse in d next world cup
2455
Football / Re: Little Dwight set to repeat history
« on: June 22, 2005, 11:10:34 PM »
his shin guards are not worn correctly!! swith the left and right. 
2456
Football / Re: Confederation Cup: The Mystique of BRAZIL
« on: June 17, 2005, 10:26:40 AM »
fuh real
2457
Football / Re: Mexicans credits “Warriors” effort.
« on: June 11, 2005, 01:33:44 AM »
European based players are playing consistently since last year August, club and international. A two week rest is not a bad idea to recharge the batteries. After the Gold Cup these players will be going straight back into club pre season training and another full year of fixtures leading to the world cup. Let our boys put their feet up this time. Come back strong again.
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Football / Re: Homeview Members!
« on: June 04, 2005, 01:36:09 PM »
It may be because 105fm is also carrying the cricket live which they do not have the rights to broadcast over the net so hopefully that is the reason for no audio. but by 6:30 they better be playing something.
2459
Football / Taxi for Russell Latapy.
« on: April 24, 2005, 02:05:14 AM »
Taxi for Russell Latapy.
By: Alan Campbell - Sundayherald.
It is not only Scotland which produces poachers-turned- gamekeepers. When Russell Latapy returns home to Trinidad’s Port of Spain this week, he hopes it will be the start of a voyage from errant footballer to respected coach.
“Yes, I have heard of the expression,” he remarks as he sidesteps the trap. Having been sacked, twice, by Alex McLeish for serious mis demeanours, the otherwise beautifully-balanced midfielder is not the most obvious candidate to keep other players off the sauce. He intends, though, to give it his best shot.
Latapy will undergo his final coaching assessment for the SFA’s A-licence at Largs this afternoon. It’s an appropriate venue, because just as Jimmy Johnstone will forever be associated with the Ayrshire coastal town after casting himself adrift from it in 1974, so will Latapy’s playing career in Scotland be recalled for his drink-driving offence just 36 hours before an Edinburgh derby in May 2001. Dwight Yorke and two blondes were also involved. Subsequently too was an unhappy McLeish, at the time the manager of Hibs, and Latapy got his jotters.
“I don’t think that one incident should define my career,” he points out. “It did happen, and I wish it didn’t, but it’s in the past and let’s move on.”
In Latapy’s defence, it’s difficult to reconcile that bleary-eyed character behind the wheel with the measured 36-year-old who is sitting in John Hughes’ seat at the Falkirk training ground. But, as the prosecution would point out, the incident in Stockbridge was not an aberration; two years ago in January McLeish again became so exasperated by Latapy’s behaviour he released him from a Rangers contract which had six months to run.
So how, I asked the prospective managerial cand idate, would he deal with players who acted in, er, precisely the manner he had at Easter Road and Ibrox ?
“I will deal with every individual case as it presents itself,” he responds. “I took a lot of chances, but I knew what the consequences would be if I got caught. I’ll say to the players: ‘Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time’.”
Not a refrain you would expect to hear from Alex Ferguson, and one which will reinforce the stereotype that players from the Caribbean are too laid-back to make good managers. But a stereotype is all that it is. Latapy has worked under some of the best managers in the game, and believes he has the experience to succeed.
This week, with his new SFA certificate in the bag, he will fly out to Port of Spain to take up a post as assistant coach of Trinidad and Tobago. With three crucial World Cup qual ifying matches on the horizon, it’s a startling elevation for a man whose only relevant experience is coaching the Falkirk reserve team.
Latapy will work under Leo Beenhakker, the veteran Dutch coach who was appointed to replace Bertille St Clair at the start of the month. For those who believe that Latapy is too much of a night club lizard to succeed as a manager, his departure for the Caribbean is instructive for two reasons.
Despite having refused to play for his country in a friendly against Panama in 2001, when he also retired from international football, the T&T federation still had enough faith in him to offer him this position. Equally, a figure as substantial as Beenhakker would not have a patsy foisted upon him. The coach will have checked out Latapy’s character with his old friend Dick Advocaat, and come to the conclusion that it’s worth taking the chance.
So now, four months short of his 37th birthday, Latapy will not only get the top-class coaching opportunity he craves, but also make himself available as a player for the post-season qualifiers against Panama, Mexico and the United States. Trinidad and Tobago are bottom of the six-team pool with just one point from three games, but with three countries having the opportunity to get to Germany next year all is not lost.
If Beenhakker and his inexperienced assistant can turn affairs around, Latapy is likely to be offered a full-time contract in July. If not, it’s back to Falkirk, where he has helped take the First Division side to the title.
The midfielder’s twilight playing days, if not as mem orable as those with Porto, Boavista, Hibs and Rangers, offer proof that he can shed his bad-boy image. Young players rave about his helpful advice, and he has never been anything other than loyally dutiful to former Hibs team-mate Hughes.
That was a courtesy not afforded to McLeish, but while regretful about aspects of his past, Latapy does not spend the long hours of the night agonising.
“Some of my best times in Scottish football were under Alex at Hibs,” he says. “His man-management is good, as is his philosophy about the game, he’s a good commun icator and I thoroughly enjoyed working with him.”
Having also worked under Bobby Robson and a young Jose Mourinho at Porto, as well as Advocaat at Ibrox, Latapy has sackfuls of exper ience to dip into when he becomes a manager in his own right.
“You could tell straight away that Mourinho was an astute, intelligent person and would make a good living out of coaching,” he says. “I knew he’d succeed, even if I didn’t realise just how much.”
The Chelsea manager, a foot balling maverick, was given his opportunity. Will Latapy ?
“Obviously a lot of chairmen would take my past into consideration,” he concedes. “It is a question of somebody taking a chance on me. Eventually, I would absolutely love to manage Rangers or Celtic. I would prefer to be in a difficult job, and having to use all my wits, than to be in an easy one.”
In the interim, if he doesn’t stay in Trinidad, Latapy is likely to be playing for Falkirk for one final season, this time in the Premierleague. “You get more time on the ball there, which suits me fine,” he says, “although it is unlikely I could play all the games. To be honest I would prefer 20 to 25 good games rather than cheat the club with 36 average ones. Falkirk is a good place to be, and I’m happy with the contribution I’m making.”
Latapy’s haul of honours includes two championship titles with Porto, but asked if he would eventually move into management with the sense of a playing career unfulfilled, he replies: “I make no apologies for the way I’ve lived my life. I’ve worked hard and I’ve played hard. That’s the way life should be lived.
“Maybe I could have gone further as a player if I’d behaved differently, but then I wouldn’t have been the person that I am. I’m happy with my career, and if as a manager I can surpass that I’ll be very happy.
“Everything that I have in my life is through football. I absolutely love the game. I’m confident I have something to offer in management.”
At Hibs, where he played sublimely, Latapy was embarking on his coaching certificates. The poacher even then was contemplating life as a gamekeeper.
By: Alan Campbell - Sundayherald.
It is not only Scotland which produces poachers-turned- gamekeepers. When Russell Latapy returns home to Trinidad’s Port of Spain this week, he hopes it will be the start of a voyage from errant footballer to respected coach.
“Yes, I have heard of the expression,” he remarks as he sidesteps the trap. Having been sacked, twice, by Alex McLeish for serious mis demeanours, the otherwise beautifully-balanced midfielder is not the most obvious candidate to keep other players off the sauce. He intends, though, to give it his best shot.
Latapy will undergo his final coaching assessment for the SFA’s A-licence at Largs this afternoon. It’s an appropriate venue, because just as Jimmy Johnstone will forever be associated with the Ayrshire coastal town after casting himself adrift from it in 1974, so will Latapy’s playing career in Scotland be recalled for his drink-driving offence just 36 hours before an Edinburgh derby in May 2001. Dwight Yorke and two blondes were also involved. Subsequently too was an unhappy McLeish, at the time the manager of Hibs, and Latapy got his jotters.
“I don’t think that one incident should define my career,” he points out. “It did happen, and I wish it didn’t, but it’s in the past and let’s move on.”
In Latapy’s defence, it’s difficult to reconcile that bleary-eyed character behind the wheel with the measured 36-year-old who is sitting in John Hughes’ seat at the Falkirk training ground. But, as the prosecution would point out, the incident in Stockbridge was not an aberration; two years ago in January McLeish again became so exasperated by Latapy’s behaviour he released him from a Rangers contract which had six months to run.
So how, I asked the prospective managerial cand idate, would he deal with players who acted in, er, precisely the manner he had at Easter Road and Ibrox ?
“I will deal with every individual case as it presents itself,” he responds. “I took a lot of chances, but I knew what the consequences would be if I got caught. I’ll say to the players: ‘Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time’.”
Not a refrain you would expect to hear from Alex Ferguson, and one which will reinforce the stereotype that players from the Caribbean are too laid-back to make good managers. But a stereotype is all that it is. Latapy has worked under some of the best managers in the game, and believes he has the experience to succeed.
This week, with his new SFA certificate in the bag, he will fly out to Port of Spain to take up a post as assistant coach of Trinidad and Tobago. With three crucial World Cup qual ifying matches on the horizon, it’s a startling elevation for a man whose only relevant experience is coaching the Falkirk reserve team.
Latapy will work under Leo Beenhakker, the veteran Dutch coach who was appointed to replace Bertille St Clair at the start of the month. For those who believe that Latapy is too much of a night club lizard to succeed as a manager, his departure for the Caribbean is instructive for two reasons.
Despite having refused to play for his country in a friendly against Panama in 2001, when he also retired from international football, the T&T federation still had enough faith in him to offer him this position. Equally, a figure as substantial as Beenhakker would not have a patsy foisted upon him. The coach will have checked out Latapy’s character with his old friend Dick Advocaat, and come to the conclusion that it’s worth taking the chance.
So now, four months short of his 37th birthday, Latapy will not only get the top-class coaching opportunity he craves, but also make himself available as a player for the post-season qualifiers against Panama, Mexico and the United States. Trinidad and Tobago are bottom of the six-team pool with just one point from three games, but with three countries having the opportunity to get to Germany next year all is not lost.
If Beenhakker and his inexperienced assistant can turn affairs around, Latapy is likely to be offered a full-time contract in July. If not, it’s back to Falkirk, where he has helped take the First Division side to the title.
The midfielder’s twilight playing days, if not as mem orable as those with Porto, Boavista, Hibs and Rangers, offer proof that he can shed his bad-boy image. Young players rave about his helpful advice, and he has never been anything other than loyally dutiful to former Hibs team-mate Hughes.
That was a courtesy not afforded to McLeish, but while regretful about aspects of his past, Latapy does not spend the long hours of the night agonising.
“Some of my best times in Scottish football were under Alex at Hibs,” he says. “His man-management is good, as is his philosophy about the game, he’s a good commun icator and I thoroughly enjoyed working with him.”
Having also worked under Bobby Robson and a young Jose Mourinho at Porto, as well as Advocaat at Ibrox, Latapy has sackfuls of exper ience to dip into when he becomes a manager in his own right.
“You could tell straight away that Mourinho was an astute, intelligent person and would make a good living out of coaching,” he says. “I knew he’d succeed, even if I didn’t realise just how much.”
The Chelsea manager, a foot balling maverick, was given his opportunity. Will Latapy ?
“Obviously a lot of chairmen would take my past into consideration,” he concedes. “It is a question of somebody taking a chance on me. Eventually, I would absolutely love to manage Rangers or Celtic. I would prefer to be in a difficult job, and having to use all my wits, than to be in an easy one.”
In the interim, if he doesn’t stay in Trinidad, Latapy is likely to be playing for Falkirk for one final season, this time in the Premierleague. “You get more time on the ball there, which suits me fine,” he says, “although it is unlikely I could play all the games. To be honest I would prefer 20 to 25 good games rather than cheat the club with 36 average ones. Falkirk is a good place to be, and I’m happy with the contribution I’m making.”
Latapy’s haul of honours includes two championship titles with Porto, but asked if he would eventually move into management with the sense of a playing career unfulfilled, he replies: “I make no apologies for the way I’ve lived my life. I’ve worked hard and I’ve played hard. That’s the way life should be lived.
“Maybe I could have gone further as a player if I’d behaved differently, but then I wouldn’t have been the person that I am. I’m happy with my career, and if as a manager I can surpass that I’ll be very happy.
“Everything that I have in my life is through football. I absolutely love the game. I’m confident I have something to offer in management.”
At Hibs, where he played sublimely, Latapy was embarking on his coaching certificates. The poacher even then was contemplating life as a gamekeeper.