Was at the game tonight and first of all lemme tell allyuh, We should play every national game in the Mannie, first time i ever felt i was part of a partizan crowd of trinis, we were noisy and rowdy and maybe it was becuase were were playing JA i dunno but wow the atmosphere for a semi full covered stand on a rainy Thursday was something i've never experienced.
Anyways the game, now i've seen this U-20 team play before and I have been harsh on them and their play but tonight people, tonight was different. I eh go lie i feel for dem fellas tonight, dey fight dey fight dey fight we cheered them on they fought some more they willed themselves tonight and just couldnt come up with the equalizer, if you see the pain on their faces after the final whistle, young abu bakr lead from the front and played with great heart. No doubt if nothing else Brian Williams has instilled a real sense of pride in these players that no level of technical and tactical knowledge can outshine. They made mistakes, the usual technical deficiencies that prevalent at all levels of our national programs but i wont even go into too much detail about that.
Like most other tournaments i beg to keep these bunch of players and Brian Williams together, i believe his plan was a good one tonight. But sometimes you need that little bit extra from somewhere, the crowd did their part, the referee sure did his part to make sure we didnt go through and well the j'can team well i dunno teams do what they need to do to get ahead and stay ahead, if your goalkeeper is injured and there are no subsitutes then the referee should give the keeper a specific time to recover from a knock otherwise he must leave the field cause the j'can keeper couldnt even stand up for the last 10 minutes of the match, killed any momentum we had in the final raids but regardless i wont take away from jamaica, they did what they needed to do.