Conspiracy theories are understandable, because people's view of an event is always one-sided. Trinidadians were so caught up in the hype and euphoria, and believed so strongly that we were going to win/draw, that we almost forgot, that there was another team of relatively equal ability to ours, coming to play us, who's desire to win was just as strong....The US nation as a whole was relatively ignorant to the exploits of their WC 90 team, but if you listen to Ramos and Harks and those guys talk.....they still hold that day as one of the most important days of their lives. They consider themselves pioneers of soccer in the US, and that is what they came to Trinidad to become...So the disbelief in the naturalness of our failure is understandable, but when you look back at it in retrospect and take everything into consideration, you'll realize it was just a case of two teams battling it out, and one team had to lose....Now I would never fully rule out the probability of some sorta funny business going on, but I've resigned myself to the notion that it was just a football match, and we didn't do our job.
About the moral dilemma, I'd take my chances on going to the WC, and getting some exposure and possibly a foreign contract.