David I feel yuh frustration.
The FPATT vs Celebrities funday was a great opportunity for the public to show their refusal to be taken for granted any longer, but both FPATT and de public stick.
According to weary and Touches' info, there was under 500 people in de stands. Big Warrior strike going on, they come back for a trivial fete match and people eh pounce on dat golden opportunity to truly give Jack and the TTFF fire. Yes if all of we on de board was in Trinidad it woulda been more pressure for them. Anyway big up to all WN and SW.net members who went.
FPATT stick too because they had no tokens (t-shirts, fliers, rags, brochures) to even let ppl know dey exist, or even more importantly, dat they have a crucial issue at hand. I waiting to hear what Sancho have to say.
Grande, I think you are being very unreasonable and also quite offensive to the FPATT guys, maybe without meaning to.
I know some of these guys and saw how difficult it was to try to start FPATT in Trinidad & Tobago from England. They made hundreds of pounds worth of phone calls, attended meetings in their own time, met with lawyers, businesses and unions.
The guy in T&T who is helping them, Alison Ayers, has single handedly organised the funday. He got a fantastic response from celebrities. Kello and sanch got the Warriors there(don't forget these players have just finished a 9 month season. They have families who they wish to spend time and also realise that playing for FPATT puts them further up the TTFF sh*tlist).
Ayres arranged advertising and press releases (even though many media outlets were too frightened to cover the event).
To provide items for sale, such as shirts, posters etc requires money. They haven't got any. Thats why its called a fundraiser. Just suppose they spent $13,000TT on such items. Only 500 people turned up! They would have lost money.
FPATT will have some funds coming through from business partners but this will take time. Unfortunately, because of the lack of support of the people of T&T, this will now be harder. They hoped if they had an attendance of 5,000, sponsors would become interested. But which sponsor is going to plough money into FPATT when only 500 people could be bothered to turn out to see their world cup heroes for the first time since Germany?
People on this site speak of the apathy of players and officials, but you have to look to yourselves first.
This was the biggest opportunity the supporters have ever had to show their anger against Camps and Warner. They must be chuckling away to themselves. You ask about other smaller countries, well they would have turned up in their thousands. They would have made their own banners. They would have burned T&T shirts. They would have chanted anti Camps & Warner slogans.
Where are the supporters who care. If FPATT gave up now, most people will just shrug their shoulders and put up with the sh*t you've had for years.
I believe FPATT are playing another match in Tobago on friday to show those islanders that this is a country wide organisation. I hope that there is a better turnout there.
How do you expect the world to take notice, if the Trinibago people don't take notice.
Sorry if I have upset anyone, but I can't believe that attendance after all the support offered on this site. I thought it was going to be massive.
Oh, and before you start hitting on me, I regularly travel to Gillingham away matches, sometimes as long as 10 hour round trip.
I have also attended various marches and demonstrations to show my support for different causes. I am not a revolutionary, just someone who cares passionately when people abuse power.
Its the peoples game, but if they don't speak, nobody will hear them.