Some people here must do some research. Corneal and Jack were the biggest enemies. Corneal was coopted by Jack and that is how he got the FIFA work that is why after all the past enmity, Corneal did not get the job at FIFA. Jack GAVE him that job. That is why Corneal has not a boo to say about any of Jack transgressions. That is also what makes Jack an extremely complicated individual to have simple judgements about. Alvin now uses that job tp pontificate on matters and I am simply saying the emperor has no clothes. As for the contention that I have this overly black conscious attitude. Anybody who knows me would laugh at that. My points are two fold:
1. Alvin C has no bonafides has an elite coach
2. Alvin C opinions are given the prominence they are for the reasons I have stated.
That mind you does that apply to football but all facets of T&T life.
I am no race baiter but we ignore these issues at our peril.
I think it has much less to do with race (if anything at all) and much more to do with the fact that at a point in time, Alvin Corneal was one of T&T's best players. He played for a club called Maple and that club...even though now virtually defunct, has members (or ex members) who are in positions of POWER within T&T football and society at large.
Alvin is the poster child for Maple and that, coupled with his deserved reputation as one of T&T's best ever players, resulted in various avenues were made accessible to him which he embraced readily. To say Alvin Corneal has done nothing for T&T football would be a lie (I'm not saying you said that PEG) because he has helped many a young player through his coaching school among other things.
However, he has become increasingly critical and bitter towards anything to do with T&T football, especially when he doesn't have a measure of, if not total control over a footballing situation. He and Sedley Joseph (another Mapleite) are allowed "football pundit/guru" status in T&T primarily through their past deeds on the pitch and their association with Maple Football Club. Alvin's player status at least could be justified. Sedley Joseph past exploits as this "great player" and hall of fame member is more imagined than real.
For all of his footballing knowledge, and Alvin Corneal has forgotten more about football than most people here would ever learn, he has had dismal results as a coach or in charge of any T&T footballing initiative. Just goes to show that knowledge, in and of itself is not a guarantor to success. Alvin Corneal's ego is super sized and the man is certainly opinionated.
PEG is right.....Alvin Corneal was Jack's biggest critic, until Jack buy him out with a FIFA appointment where he could travel the world and sit on committee and pontificate, criticise ad nauseum, without having RESPONSIBILITY for results. In other words...cushy ting. It's just sad that someone with the resources that he has at his disposal seems unable to seek any more than his self interests rather than working towards the true betterment of T&T football, working with ANYONE who has the expertise to help in achieving that goal.
PEG...if yuh want to call it the aristocracy of CLASS....yuh might have a better argument. Color have little if anything to do with why Alvin is considered a football guru.
