Some ah allyuh greybeards know this fella:
Sherlock Yarde passes awaywww.nationnews.com6/22/2012
Prominent football administrator and show promoter Sherlock Yarde passed away at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital yesterday at the age of 55.
Yarde was the Senior Vice-President of the Barbados Football Association (BFA), Chairman of selectors for the senior team and a former national team manager.
He was also the long-standing President and Manager of the Clayton Kola Tonic Notre Dame football club.
“He was a very strong and confident person,” said younger brother Nigel.
“He was an assured man who had a great deal of love for other people. He was also an eternal optimist. We will all miss him dearly.”
Yarde leaves to mourn four brothers, two sisters and two daughters.
“The last time I had seen him was on Friday at the hospital and he was doing all right,” said David Hinds, General Secretary of the BFA.
“But to hear this news now, I’m devastated. We, not just at the BFA, will miss him. Barbados has lost a great man.”
The President of the Barbados Football Association, Hon. Ronald Jones MP, joined the members of the national football fraternity in mourning the death of Sherlock Yarde.
Below is his statement in full:“Sherlock has been a member of the football family of Barbados for several decades and has contributed to its development and the development of many young men during that period. His love for the sport was well known and his passion allowed him to contribute in time, finance and resources to the sport. If any individual can be called a consummate football person, then that person would be Sherlock. He not only played the game, but managed, officiated, led, organised and supported every aspect of the sport.
“He was a person on whom any one could call for advice on the sport. He brought to the sport a generosity and passion which brooked no nonsense. He possessed a keen eye for the game and a love for those he associated with in the sport.
“His association with the Notre Dame Football Club is now legendary. He steered that Club to many victories over several years at all age levels. I am positive that the residents of the Bayland and surrounding communities will miss his contribution.
“As a member of the Executive Council of the BFA, and eventually the Senior Vice President, over the past three-and-a- half years, his counsel and decisive tone and voice will be missed from our various meetings.
“As president of the BFA I wish to offer my sincerest condolences to his family and friends during this time. May his positive words and actions be forever etched in our minds.”
+++++Barbados' football fraternity said farewell to their fallen hero today.http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/farewell-sherlock/Hundreds of fans, family and friends turned out at the indoor complex of the Garfield Sobers Gymnasium to say goodbye to Sherlock 'Nat' Yarde, during an emotional memorial service.
Yarde, a long-serving football administrator and entertainment promoter, had passed away last week due to complications associated with diabetes. He was 55.
In a heart-felt sermon, Yarde's brother Pastor Nigel Yarde told the congregation that his sibling had given much to people, football and entertainment, but that more importantly, he had also given his life to God a few days before taking his final breath.
"He made the right connection. He made the most important connection of all. He connected himself to God. And now he is looking down from a better place," Yarde said.
During his 45-minute sermon, Yarde called his brother a true gift to humanity by virtue of his generous ways and strong friendship. "He was the people's Sir. He was knighted by those in Barbados who knew him. He was the people's minister of social care. He was our minister of poverty alleviation. He was a great friend. He was a great brother."
President of the Barbados Football Association, Ronald Jones remembered Yarde as a football administrator ready to pull his own pocket and provide finance not only to poor footballers for equipment, but to the association itself, so as to ensure national teams could perform overseas duty.
The service was attended by Minister or Tourism, Richard Sealy, former Minister of Tourism and Yarde's former Parliamentary representative, Noel Lynch, as well as MP for St Michel North East, Mia Mottley, MP for the City, Patrick Todd and Senator Santia Bradshaw. (BA)
+++++B’dos F/ball official Sherlock Yarde dead at 55June 22, 2012 | By KNews | Filed Under Sports
Described as a true friend of Guyana’s Football
By Sean Devers
They say is it not how long you live but how you live that is important to the people you live with and the tributes following the passing yesterday morning of Vice-President of the Barbados Football Association (BFA) Sherlock Yade at age 55, emphasize that saying. No one can totally prepare for death but when it comes at the height of a successful career in and outside the sporting arena and without obvious signs of illness to even some of his friends, like was the case with Yarde, it is even more heart breaking.
News reaching Kaieteur Sport indicate that the Barbadian Football personality, whose father is Guyanese and who has a Guyanese-born daughter, died of an undisclosed illness in a Barbados Hospital yesterday morning throwing not only the Barbados Football Association but those in Guyana and the wider Caribbean into morning (sic).
Yarde, who played an integral role in the Notre Dame Football Club in Barbados which accommodated several Guyanese Footballers due to Yarde’s influence, was also the Chairman of the BFA selectors and the Manager of the Barbados senior Football team. Outside of Football, Yarde, who attended school with former Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur, was the proprietor of Stores in Barbados, a senior Customs Officer and was even into politics.
Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Richardson, the late Shawn ‘Fatso’ Bishop and Nigel ‘Powers’ Codrington were among the Guyanese who played domestic Football with Yarde’s club in Barbados, while Yarde, who played a key role in the Masters Football competitions between Guyana and Barbados, was also instrumental in reviving the Veterans Football competition between the Notre Dame club and Guyanese clubs, which was an annual affair in the 1980s.
Acting President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Frankie Wilson said the passing of Yarde came as a shocker to the GFF and the football fraternity not only in Barbados but in Guyana and indeed the Caribbean as a whole. “The last time I saw Mr. Yarde was at the return game in round two of the FIFA World Cup Qualifying competition in Barbados. His passing no doubt leaves a void in the Administration of football in Barbados and by extension, the Caribbean.
Apart from his position on the BFA as a Vice President, Mr. Yarde played a major role in Masters Football not only in Barbados but also in Guyana and was the main player behind the annual Masters tournament that features teams from both countries here,” Wilson said.
“Mr. Yarde also played a role in inviting some of our footballers to play in Barbados some years ago which underpinned the level of his involvement in the sport. To relatives, friends and the football fraternity of Barbados, the Guyana Football Federation on behalf of the fraternity here would like to extend sincere condolences on the passing of a true labourer of the sport. May his soul rest in peace,” Wilson added.
Former National Footballer and later National Coach Lennox Arthur described Yarde as a personal friend and a true friend of Guyana’s Football who went out of his way to make life comfortable for the players and officials whenever Guyana Football teams were in Barbados.
“I last saw him in Barbados during the Veterans Tournament last month and he did not look sick. I was organising to get a Guyana All-Stars team to go to Barbados and I cannot express how I felt when I got the news from ‘English’ (Frank Parris) that he had passed away,” Arthur disclosed. “I will surely miss him. Whenever I am in Barbados he is there for me as a friend. He respected me as a Football Coach after seeing me work with Pele and whenever he lands in Guyana he would make sure he calls me. He was a good man and will be missed,” an emotional Arthur revealed.
And former National Footballer and Coach Gordon Braithwaite also described Yarde as a true friend of Guyana’s Football and someone who was always ‘straight up’ and spoke his mind. “A real good man is gone! I was recovering from an injury and missed the last Veterans tournament and did not get to see him in Barbados. I was shocked when I got the news this morning (yesterday) and it was only the night before that I even knew he was ill. I still can’t believe it…he was like a brother to me,” Braithwaite informed. “I remember when I coached Beacons at the Parade ground and he brought his team here and I organized matches for them. I played a few games as guest player for his side and his death is a massive blow to Guyana’s Football. Sir Nap…that was his call name…was a genuine person and had a lot of influence. He would tell me that he would call up Bennie Man and get him to go to Barbados to perform. He turned 55 on January 16 and he has gone far too soon. He lived a full life and few who knew him would talk bad about him. I am not sure when is the funeral, but I am hoping to get to go,” Braithwaite said.
http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2012/06/22/b%E2%80%99dos-fball-official-sherlock-yarde-dead-at-55/ +++
A Thanksgiving Service for former Senior Vice President of the Barbados Football Association Mr. Sherlock Yarde, will take place on Saturday June 30, 2012 at the Sir Garfield Sobers Sports Complex. The service will commence at 10:00am and will last until 1:00pm.
The body of Mr Yarde will lay in wait from 8:30am and all persons within the football fraternity who will be attending are asked to assemble at 9:00am, attired their respective club jersey or polo shirt and dark slacks.
The public viewing of the body will take place on Friday June 29, 2012 at the Notre Dame Sports Club, Bayville, St. Michael from 2:00pm until 6:00pm.