Dear forumites,
Just some comments about the game yesterday.
1) FPATT management might want to look into that acronym seriously. It is currently being used by the
Family
Planning
Association of
Trinidad and
Tobago. Check they website....they refer to themselves as such...lets hope another legal issue does not arise.
2) I was in the covered stands and I did not see any Latapy, Yorke, Stern boots or merchandise on display even though it was announced on this site.
3) No T-shirts, Uniforms, fliers, rag...nuttin that the fan could purchase or no information on Fpatt or its aims concerns etc were available.
Where were these items as promised?
I arrived around 4:10 expecting the game to be underway.
Instead two primary school teams were battling it out on the field.
After that the Soca Warriors came out and warmed up...the Celebrities however stayed in the dressing room.
Game kicked off at 4:45...crowd estimated at about 500
The soca Warriors squad comprised of Durance williams in goal, dog, sancho, cyd, Carlos, Silvio spann, Scotland, Kenwyne, Stern, Glen, Atiba Charles,Wolfe, Birchall, Tiger and Theobold. Kelvin Jack was the Manger on the bench.
So it was 15 of them with Glen and Atiba on the bench. Tiger came late. In fact one of our forumites stated...OH LORSE ATIBA cyar even start in a fete match.
The celebrities was strike squad men and other radio and media personalities...numberingl just over 26 of them.
Funny enough in the last 5 minutes it was 26 celebrities on the field vs the 11 warriors and they came back to equalise and force the game into a penalty shootout.
Celebrities started with leonson Lewis, Eve, Brian WIlliams, Clayton Morris, Alibey, Jason Williams a fella name Peter George in the post and Maximus striking.
First goal came from the celebrities...a expert tru ball latched on to leonson who turn Spann and from the top of the 18 curl a side footer past williams.
Leo still have it yes and was the main attacking force in the Celeb arsenal.
After that the warriors started to knock the ball and ping it around the field and Wolfe and Kenwyne were the main abortionist on the day. Wolfe throw away three easy sitter and Kenwyne take a while before he score. Each time he miss they would sub him and put him on the bench...so men was just coming on the field for both teams after a 5-10 min.
It had level blade passing and men was going in to tackles hard and fierce as men didnt want to get embarrassed.
the score was 3-1 at the end of the first 3rd......Fete match ting nah...3, 30 min thirds instead of 2, 45.
AFter that the score was about 5-2 and then the celebrites made a comeback.
Funny enough it didnt have no setta beat, fan, spanner, but proper ball, passes crosses etc. Jason williams hit Theobold a roly poly by the corner flag but this was the highlight "toolum" of the evening.
As a certain poster said...Terry Seales does have a bullet and he hit a few shots to goal and scored one.
Angus eve swerved in a free kick late in the dregs and the Strike Squad men showed they still have the class and flair about them passing neatly and taking long range bullet.
In the final 2 thirds the game was at walking pace with fellas strolling around.
In the second third the Soca Warriors switched it up and Dog was the striker and Stern was playing Last. Dog actually was the top scorer for the warriors netting a few.
There was an attempt at commentry in the earlies from I think Mr. Ayres...but it wasnt until the final third that the Fearless one andres baptiste gave his commentry over the PA system so folks knew what was going on.
Many people didnt know who the celebrities were so at times it looked like a setta Fat men in white jersey or a setta Rasta running on the field.
But in all it was good kicks and the celebrities had more of the crowd support.
with 5 min to go the score was 7-3 and the Celebrities made a comeback with the entire bench running on the field. It was 11 vs twenty something and they was just running like batchac.
To tie the game a penalty was awarded and Maximus dan stepped up to take it only to blaze the shot overbar.
Game went to panalties and it ended up a draw with Kenwyne and Tiger missing and Hypa Hopper and somebody else missing for the celebrities. Jason Wiliams and Nigel SImon scoring some good bullet.
Dinanath Ramnarine have some touch in him. While local Reggae artiste King Daivd hit a powder puff and people remarked it was sorf like a candle in the wind.
All in all a good day of fun was had and it was entertaining.
I eagerly await the next one
Finally doe forget we playing Haiti next week alyuh come out and support.
Celebrities FromPS: Jason Williams (the thin foot terror)
Maximus Dan
Khari Kill
Levi Myaz
Ziggy Rankin
Shall marshall
Jeffery Wharton Lake
Clayton Morris
Brian Williams
Leonson Lewis
Kwesi "Hypa Hoppa" Hopkinson
Ian Prescott
Merry Perry
Tony Lee
Nigel Simon
Andre Baptiste
Ruskin Mark
Walter Alibey
Damian Melville
Terry Seales
Kevin Baker
Tony prescott
Anton Corneal
Adesh Samaroo
Kenny Phillips
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