Touches, the conclusion I draw is:
Before yuh divide dem up into ketch arse posse and otherwise, realize that all these ballers were just covered with one brush as de socawarriors who jess come from Germany who all geh shit up by Jackula several months ago. Nobody was quite high-flying yet and
everybody had a little understanding of what job insecurity and uncertainty was like, fighting up mostly in the lower leagues around the world. From that perspective (Through that lens) they thoufght they needed each other.
Later, the talk on this board was dat we expeckin' men like Sancho, Stern, Jones, Samuel, Tallest, Carlos, Gray and even Whitley to geh nicer contracts in the bigger limelight then. Men was later saying how come it eh happen yet. However, unity still seemed to be there with opportunities still possible for the various warriors.
It jess so happen that fate had it that Carlos move so. Sancho move so so, Birchall stay so, John mek he move so and Jones eh move so in his club. Whatever happened, is human nature that they would feel united as the road looked long and tough for everybody in de earlier days.
Once personal issues became more acute for certain men, the pressure to break ranks was overwhelming as they recognized that Jackula had powerful blackmail tactics that could prematurely end the work visas and spoil the marketability of some players who thought that they had more to lose with their last-lap coming with aging legs.
Other players tasting a gravy train opportunity coming, could not resist the man-for-himdself-so-to ass-wit-you syndrome and said "look, I want my MORNEY for MYSELF so tough"
. "I eh need allyuh."
Touches, I is a Trini and you is a Trini and trus' me, yuh eh give one shit about me, and de only reason we communicating is because you, like me, geh a high over seeing
de warriors create some kinda pseudonationalism for all of us haters. We feel a li'l cocaine-like high when we see Carlos ress dong some dribble on weekends and wednesdays and den we go back to our purposeless lives. Apart from dat, daiz it.
Yuh tink we could ever bond over a cause? No dread. I say no because all Trini means to most people is wine-on-a-bumsee in Tribe or Jouvert, decoration ting to party wit', shark and bake, hedonistic liming and drinking, seeing who can horn who nex'. Sancho, Carlos and Theobald
ALL at one time was ketchin' dey nennen. So to take dis snapshot in time to suggest who is perpetual loser and who is top dog now is dangerous.
The inference yuh making is dat only ah shittong have time to make trouble with a stupid pointless, misguided, supposedly pseudo-principled confrontation with Jackula. Dat all ah dem like Sancho, Jack and "half-slab" Stern John doing it because dey have no choice but to fight administration to save dey sorry "talentless asses". Yeah Touches. I cyah change yuh lenses through which you are seeing but daiz de lens of .......of.....boy, meh eh know what to call dat nah.
At one time Carlos was just like Glen thinking dat he could become a vagrant in Patna Village when he rip his knee to shreds in Wrexham. An injury could happen tomorrow in a stupid tackle to ANYBODY (blacklisted or not) and all who feel dat dey doh need no "ketch arse football union" would be crawling back wit' tail between dey legs beggin' fuh foodstamp before dey decoration gyul leff dem.
Yuh tink anybody care one shit whether Glen does be crying over he break-leg and de fyutyah dat cudda. Does it follow that if Sancho geh a nice break now and gets rewarded for his perseverance with a nice contrac', that he will abandon the cause to support the younger more needy ballers. Not necessarily. Somebody has to be de principled one and do de nerdy thing of standing up for others. Selfishness may appear to be the best route to personal success but I challenge that. Jackula will tempt nuff
spalksmen, sorry, spolksmen ... and others, to see his bait as de only way, but trus' me, is poison-food eventually and I warn Carlos, Tallest, to be careful, as reaping-time is coming for those who was sowing de tings dey was sowing. Y'undastan'?
The point is that one is inclined to be a stalwart of a cause not necessarily because one is a shittong. Not true that only shittongs need a false cause to cover for their inadequacies, but
some men jess have principle. I believe that Sancho has principle and when he had life nicer than others years ago, and others had NEVA even smell a professional ball, he was organizing men into bodies to protect dey rights as he had gotten exposure, having seen life in Finland and all over de States. Is a fact though, that we live in a selfish world, so if you eh directly gettin' benefit fuh yuhself right now, then yuh may think that de cause is a waste ah time, especially if yuh have to sacrifice for others to benefit. Daiz not a Trini characteristic (sacrificing). Maybe jamaican, but not Trini.
The stereotypical Trini doh sacrifice for a cause as he/she doh identify with anybody. Trini who go abroad, eh checkin' fuh no Trini as he/she tinkin' "I good by myself dread". " Me eh need no T&T Association". "What I have in common wit you, steuppsss". " I is UNC , you is PNM and she is NAR". " I have sorf hair, your hair nappy so you cah geh de priviledges I have" "
I went cornvornt and you went joonyah sec so what de hell I doing talking to you in Time Square. "I belong to this church and I am saved and you are part of them people and my pastor say dat you going to hell". Setta dotish excuses to divide an' be ruled.
So leh we pretend we is proud Trinis and replay Tallest' goal and Carlos's laser beam shot .... and walk past each other when de game over with total contempt, claiming at de same time dat we proud to beat de Jamaican under 17. In de meantime Stern, Sancho, Jack we will call shittongs. Yeah, I agree. After all, dey eh have no super bling contract and some, as suggested, just guaranteed to warm bench forever
