Welcome to TnT sports. Any sport. Where everyone is an expert on everything. Football seems to have it worse, because men swear they know football (based on their vast international coaching experience, I suppose). I mihself couldn't believe what I was hearing. I doh necessarily worship at the Beenhakker altar, but I will say this. The whole Latapy thing is sentiment - if he had played Latapy and he was a liability (as was the case in qualifying, at times) that would have been held against him, too, so he could never have won with that. The "he didn't do anything a local coach didn't/couldn't do" is pure jealousy. You have to realize that plenty hard back football men grinding they teeth hard hard to see where TnT reach this year. In places they don't admit in the daytime, they thinking "I cyar believe that white man come here and make all ah we look bad so - and the players responded to him like never before, too - steups"
As I always say, since everyone in TnT is an expert, then the tiebreaker should be RESULTS, like in the rest of the world. Who had the best results? Beenie did. Talk done. Whether is obeah, luck, four leaf clover whatever, go back to the man with the results. I am waiting for someone to acknowledge that he took the oldest team in the tournament almost to round 2. To focus on what he did NOT do is to insult what in fact he did do - which we are always so great at. No one is saying the man is perfect, but are you going to build on the nonsense that the rest of them have to show for their time at the helm, or a coaching style that is a tactic change here or there away or a big young star away from a big breakthrough? What are we going to do now, go back to square one? Nah man. We must NEVER FORGET the depths we came from, cuz otherwise is right back there we going, with Turks and Caicos cutting we arse and 10 people in the stadium. to "support".
Let the rest of them take their pettiness, jealousies, insecurities and inabillity and go and scratch. I have no respect for a man who has accomplished nothing who criticizes someone who has clearly done it better. If anything, that is the brilliance of the man - "to make everyone feel they could ah do it" that is typical of people who are great at what they do, and Beenie did a great job. I ent sayin I agree with everything he do, but oh gorsh man, look at where we reach from where we was!
As for us, doh give up on the future, and say "it ent have no hope for 2010" - that is what we do too often. Doh say it eh have no hope since so and so said this or that. We are so good at apathy, as Trinis. Lewwe stop that from now. Counter with opinions as to what Beenie did right, and what we need to work on.
I, for example, thought we defended better than most countries in the tournament, but defense doh score goals (unless you have a good counter attack.)
