Palos dat is real solid names dey.But how come nobody call Tom Phillip de Tranquil boy who make the national team while still going Tranquil dat was Roderick Warner favorite son.
Also did any one player draw more crowd dan Ian Clauzel ? 10,000 for a league game against Fatima and 18,000 in ah North Intercol final against JohnD.Ah was'nt around for Sando Tech with Latapy,leoson and Faustin
And ah know is true de Mucurapo team was good with Dubbison and dem men but Clauzel drew de crowds.
Fuh real. Winston "Tom" Phillip was one of he most dominant players in the history of Colleges League Football. His exploits in Colleges League never quite translated the same way when he moved on to a higher level like POSFL or National team football, but he was a giant in schoolboy football in trute.
Great call dey royal!
As fuh Moose (Clauzel)....yeah he drew the crowds fuh real. To the best of my knowledge, he was the first Colleges footballer with dreads. Dat was jes a part of his attraction. In addition, the senior secondary schools had just entered the colleges league...previously fairly dominated by the likes of CIC, QRC, & Fatima in the North and Pres and Naps in the South (I eh goin back to Benedicts days here).
The "roots players" (as the players with non traditional schools were referred to) would in thoise times play for Belmont and Tranquil and both teams were quite a force to be reckoned with.
But when Mucurapo especially burst on the scene....with Ian "Moose" Clauzel....de dread dribbler as de star of dey show...it was seen as a battle between de "common, little man" and de prestige schools. Didn't matter that Garnet Craig for Fatima came from similarly humble beginnings as the likes of Caluzel....it was Fatima prestige bourgeoisee school against Mucurapo..the school of "everyman".
But Mucurapo was much more than Clauzel. They had an array of players that to this day I believe was surpassed only by 5 colleges teams in T&T history for me.
The best of them by far was the extraordinary St Benedicts team of the 60's with De Leon. Archibald, David etc.
Den yuh had de all conquering Signal Hill teams....Yorke, Wendell Moore, Hutchinson, etc.
De Sando Tech teams wit Latas, Leonson and Faustin
Another Sando Tech team wit Leroy Spann, Peter Mitchell etc
And the all conquering St Anthony's team spearheaded by Kenwyne Jones
We have had many dominant colleges league teams like the same Mucurapo and they had Clauzel, Wendell "Tractor" Belgrave, Emerson Dubisson (a truly wonderful player), Eric and Denzil White and Clayton Morris
Den yuh had in dat same year....de outstanding John D team with Alan Peru Anderson, Garfield De Silva, John Castellano, Peter Loobie etc.
Prior to dat, yuh had de Belmont team of Brian Big Bird Bown and Gary Plucky Evelyn
De Tranquil team wit Carlyle Andrews (one a de most elegant defenders T&T produce), Tom Phillip and Keith Weekes
Yuh also had de Malick teams of Dwarika etc
De El Dorado team with Stern John
De Arima team with Kerry Jamerson and Mutty Haynes
De St Augustine team wit Garth POollonais, Jerren Nion etc
But for me....de top 4 are those I noted above.
Finally....there is one BIG BIG PLAYER I omitted from my list. A player I feel to this day had he been called to the Strike Squad and played in tandem with a midfield of himself, David Nakhid / Kerry Jamerson, Russell Latapy, & Hutson Charles, we would have made our WC debut in Italy 1990 and not Germany 2006.
I am speaking of the one and only VERRON SKINNER from Trinity. A COLOSSAL PLAYER!