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Many football rivalries have origins outside of football (often political)....so like I say, it doesn't really matter why you have a football grudge...
What Truetrini is getting at is that when people try to articulate and justify why they dislike the U.S., they end up sounding like fools, alotta times because they state reasons that they could state for any other team/country.....and alotta times because they try to sound knowlegeable about things they don't know the first thing about......and in the end, they just cop out and disguise all of their often ill-guided & biased feelings under the Nov 19th umbrella.......
It also might be the holier than thou dismissive attitude of their coach and some of thier players
That level of arrogance may work to give them a mental edge...but to the recipient it is grindingly irritating
Especially in light of the fact that they dont have much of a footballing history to 'carry' the arrogance.
Brazilian football is considered the best, but to my knowledge they never have that arrogance of media sound bites from coaches or players.
I'm sure there are smaller islands in the carribbean that are as equally irritated by the arrogance of Trini supporters
Some of it may be political like you said, people simply just understand and acknowledge when Argentina take de field vs England it does be effin WAR!!!,,partly because of de Maradonna hand incident,,but moreso because of the Falklands issue
Some of it may be purely irrational...kinda like the reason ah man CANNOT walk down any street in Boston wearin ah New York Yankees striped Juzzy...not even ah hat self
I doh hate de u.s....but I dislike dey football team, because even at Int'l level dey does still call it USSoccer
Plus as we does say..'.mih blood jus eh take dem'
Perception is reality
