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Football / Re: Football talk on i95.5fm Look loy is on
« on: November 13, 2011, 06:43:18 AM »
Why surprised that Look Loy says Pfister should not be kept on? Pfister's project was never to develop TNT football or even the senior men's team over the long term. It was always to qualify the team for Brasil 2014. That has not been achieved and now he must be replaced. The immediate priority must be the resolution of the TTFF's politics and leadership question, however. Without a new, capable leadership, any new coach would be constrained by the same old nonsense that undermines all TTFF initiatives.

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Football / Re: Everybody please pitch een here
« on: November 11, 2011, 08:24:01 PM »
We need a revolution in the TTFF and in local football at all levels. We are not serious, and I agree. This is not a true football country. We like to watch football, talk about La Liga and the EPL, but tonight's loss will not provoke the same response such a defeat would provoke in a REAL football country..

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Football / Re: Fire Otto Pfister Thread.
« on: November 11, 2011, 08:04:26 PM »
...Risbergen...Maturana...Latapy...Pfister...SAME RESULT...Maybe it's the players?...Or TTFF administration?...Or both?...We can't qualify for the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the CONCACAF Champions League...When we go to the Digicel Cup we could barely win a match...We can't see the team on TV when they on the road...We serious?...

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Football / Re: Eve slams treatment of local coaches.
« on: November 11, 2011, 09:54:18 AM »
You're absolutely correct Lower St. John. And, on an individual basis SOME foreign coaches are better than the average local coach, but this "foreign-is-better-than-local" mindset is the product of our centuries-old history as enslaved, colonised and dominated people. Straight up. I repeat, we should judge a coach on his ability, performance and results...not his passport...

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Football / Re: Eve slams treatment of local coaches.
« on: November 11, 2011, 08:24:05 AM »
Undoubtedly, there was (is?) a body of opinion in Guyana that says Shabazz, as a foreign coach and  TRINI at that, shouldn't be hired as their coach. Here at home, some said we shouldn't hire Beenkakker - until he qualified us for Germany 2001, of course, or Vranes - until he qualified us for Egypt 2009. This is a moot point. The issue is not Nationality. It is Ability. It is Performance and Results. We live in a global football community and expect that a national team will ALWAYS be coaches by a national?

The partial resolution of this debate is to be found in providing increasingly widespread and available coaching education opportunity for local coaches - a TTFF function, and increasingly higher levels of domestic competition - youth and senior, which would require local technicians to function on a more professional basis in their DAILY work. This "weeds out" those lacking in capacity and initiative and leaves the field open for a more elite group to explore the possibilities.

The local v foreign debate is passe.

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Football / Re: Candidates for new CFU president
« on: November 04, 2011, 10:49:07 AM »
So you seen through the smoke Jai. Good! Electing Taylor is keeping the old order intact. There is now another candidate in the CFU race - Luis Hernandez, president of the Cuban federation (AFC). This is a straight-up guy...and experienced. he played international football for Cuba for many years and has experience of the CFU jungle. He is a formidable candidate as he has the support of the non-English associations but also commands respect among the English language countries.

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Football / Re: Look Loy candidate for EFA president.
« on: November 04, 2011, 10:45:11 AM »
Comrades, the EPL did not leave the English FA. Moreover, the English FA is hardly the JUNGLE that the TTFF is. The EPl clubs were able to negotiate their formation of a new league - much as the TT Pro League did. They didn't CHALLENGE the political status quo as Look Loy and MOVE are doing. The formation of another regional association would NEVER be accepted by the TTFF, the owners of which have carefully crafted the geographical boundaries and political network over time - twenty-odd years. That said, change must come and no dictatorship lasts forever. People just have to be determined enough and smart enough to win! And that is what TTFF meet this time...

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Football / Re: New refs under fire
« on: November 03, 2011, 11:02:03 AM »
Everybody wants to go to Heaven but nobody wants to DIE...

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Football / Re: Camps resigns from TTFF
« on: November 01, 2011, 02:11:15 PM »
It's a dead end if you want to enjoy the benefits of FIFA membership - like participation in the World Cup, CONCACAF Gold Cup, CONCACAF Champions League, FIFA development programmes and financing, etc. Simple. Anything else is just playing for playing sake...

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Football / Re: Camps resigns from TTFF
« on: November 01, 2011, 01:09:41 PM »
You could form your own league, association or federation. This has been done more than once previously in and outside of TNT. It ALWAYS ends with the "rebels" returning to the FIFA fold. That's the FIFA fold. Yes, because no serious player, club or league wants to be outside of FIFA football. Do you know that Alfredo di Stefano played with Millionarios of Bogota back in the late 1940s and early 1950s when they were member of a "rebel" league. That particular experiment inevitably failed and he made his way to Spain and stardom with Real Madrid. Here in TNT we had our Premier Soccer League - the Arthur Suite League - that was a success for a three years and then they all wound their way back into the TTFF. I played in that league. That route NEVER works...

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Football / Re: Camps resigns from TTFF
« on: November 01, 2011, 12:01:26 PM »
Yes, we will see. Also, let's not forget that there ARE elements within the TTFF that are definitely NOT integral to the TTFF clique: the Tobago FA, the Referees' Association, and sections of the Southern FA, for starters. The situation is in flux and we need a broad coalition to force the clique out. The timing for that is not easy to define...

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Football / Re: Camps resigns from TTFF
« on: November 01, 2011, 11:24:51 AM »
Forde is a nice enough guy but he plays along with the TTFF clique. Marcelle is an ex-international player, of course, and we will see what his administrative and political input will be. At least for the present, therefore, the TTFF status quo is maintained by these election results. The removal of Watson, Ferguson and Company in the Eastern FA, and (potentially) the arrival of Marcelle, will change that equation.

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Football / Re: Camps resigns from TTFF
« on: November 01, 2011, 05:30:42 AM »
This is one aspect of the culture we have created with our Independence but we MUST persevere or die as a people...

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Football / Re: Camps resigns from TTFF
« on: November 01, 2011, 05:16:43 AM »
...and latest intelligence also tells me that the TTFF plans to hold its Annual General Meeting in November, at which time they will elect a new president - one who is "untainted" and who can present a "new" TTFF face to the world. Apparently, both Ramesh Ramdhan (JW's party supporter) and Kenny de Silva (JW's business associate) are being considered. Whatever the case, anybody the TTFF clique co-opts, we may be certain the "new" person will be someone the TTFF clique can rely on to help implement its agenda.

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Football / Re: Camps resigns from TTFF
« on: November 01, 2011, 04:34:36 AM »
Latest: Marlon Morris and his slate lost all positions last evening in the Northern FA elections. Roland Forde, the incumbent returns as president with Clint Marcelle as vice-president.

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Football / Re: Look Loy candidate for EFA president.
« on: October 31, 2011, 08:07:37 PM »
The twelve clubs of MOVE (Movement for Football Excellence) wrote to Anil Roberts in mid-October to apprise him of the situation in the Eastern FA, and the attempt of Lennox Watson (now TTFF president) to hijack their election. He has not even acknowledged their letter but calling on cricket administrators to resign. Amazing...

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Football / Re: De Minister of Sport doing everything but Sports !!!!
« on: October 31, 2011, 08:03:20 PM »
Why doesn't he call on the TTFF clique to resign?

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Football / Re: Camps resigns from TTFF
« on: October 31, 2011, 12:07:22 PM »
Watson is the acting president - appointed by an exco meeting the evening Camps resigned. They just haven't revealed that to the media because of all the bad press he has been receiving due to the impasse with the EFA clubs...God help us...

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Football / Re: Camps resigns from TTFF
« on: October 31, 2011, 08:47:04 AM »
Understood...and thanks for the moral support...

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Football / Re: Camps resigns from TTFF
« on: October 31, 2011, 04:31:07 AM »
We need as many people as possible to bring banners demanding the transformation of the TTFF to the stadium on 15 November...and by way of this response to your query - I invite all of us on SWO who so readily type against the TTFF clique to stand up and support this undertaking by committing to bring a banner themselves. Come on SWO People!...

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Football / Re: Camps resigns from TTFF
« on: October 30, 2011, 02:49:09 PM »
Thanks again...

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Football / Re: Camps resigns from TTFF
« on: October 30, 2011, 02:19:41 PM »
Thanks firebrand...

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Football / Re: Camps resigns from TTFF
« on: October 30, 2011, 02:16:26 PM »
If you could privately provide his email address to me MOVE would be grateful, I am certain.

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Football / Re: Camps resigns from TTFF
« on: October 30, 2011, 12:17:43 PM »
Importantly, I should add MOVE wrote to Anil Roberts on 12 October 2011 describing the EFA electoral impasse for him and asking for his attention. NO RESPONSE. Not even an acknowledgement! Form your own conclusion...So is banners on 15 October? ...

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Football / Re: Camps resigns from TTFF
« on: October 30, 2011, 11:38:07 AM »
MOVE, the EFA clubs, have requested support for their democratic struggle from the TT Pro League. NOTHING has been forthcoming other than ole talk from clubs leaders who ALWAYS have something to sat about the TTFF and its inefficient leadership. The SSFL should be discussing the matter tomorrow, Monday. We will see if that brings anything. Tobago and the referees' association have come out and supported the EFA clubs, but in the end the TTFF clique don't respect or fear what people have to say. So the question is what are people prepared to DO? Anybody for some protest banners at the stadium on 15 November when we play Guyana? Of course, that won't get the clique out but the time for the clubs and the public to demand their removal from office is NOW...

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Football / Re: Camps resigns from TTFF
« on: October 30, 2011, 11:20:25 AM »
But the TTFF clique DO have a plan - to change the face occupying the presidency, to try to fool the public that they are really changing for the better, and to continue their strangulation of local football...

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Football / Re: Camps resigns from TTFF
« on: October 30, 2011, 10:31:01 AM »
Latest intelligence says the TTFF clique plans to draft an "independent" outsider as president, in order to present a "new, clean" image. Good luck with that. Anybody they bring in will ultimately serve their world view and plans, and will be bound by their code of omerta...

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Football / Re: Camps resigns from TTFF
« on: October 28, 2011, 09:19:51 AM »
"The presumption of innocence" applies to Camps. FIFA will not pursue the charges. The next president inherits a moribund organization, bankrupt is every sense but football cannot stop and there must be a national association to administer it. The resolution of the leadership issue does not reside is finding a saviour, however. Yes, someone must be at the helm, but "salvation" will only be found in the exercise of real football democracy from the ground up. That is, the clubs must reclaim the regional associations and, by extension, the Federation. Call me naive but I see no other way out of this mess.

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Football / Re: Camps resigns from TTFF
« on: October 28, 2011, 07:19:08 AM »
Actually, that is a good idea. Deryck was involved with the TTFF as a member of its technical committee many years ago. Look Loy was also on that committee so you never know. Let's see what the immediate future brings as the house of cards continues to crumble.

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Football / Re: Camps resigns from TTFF
« on: October 28, 2011, 05:43:46 AM »
You refer to Johnson - Warner's personal attendant for many moons. Watson is a former prison officer. he sees the world from that perspective and believes we are all his prisoners. He is anti-democratic, arrogant and abusive. The Eastern FA has entered into terminal decline, and unless the clubs (MOVE) that are fighting for a democratic election in the east win their struggle some may very join the exodus from the EFA into the Arima League and the Eddie Hart League. Watson as TTFF president would be an unmitigated disaster. if you think things bad now, just wait...

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