Birchall... SOMEbody needs to show men how to play with PASSION, and a never-say-die attitude!!! Despite being esentially a WHITE FOREIGNER coming to a country considered by many to be predominantly BLACK, he won over the hearts and minds of MOST of T&T by his spirited performances and while everybody remembers Dennis Lawrence's header that effectively took us to Germany, it was the Birchall bullet in the first leg here that helped take some of the pressure off us in Bahrain! And as far as him being Captain, why not? The same way he won over the local-based players he met in 2005 like Cyd, Whitley and Theobald, I'm sure he will do the same NOW! It's like the SENSELESS IMHO debate over the "appropriateness" of our U-17 girls being Captained by a "WHITE AMERICAN-SOUNDING TEENAGER"... ENT SHE PLAYIN FUH WE??? C'mon we should be LONG past that stage now... let the player who in the opinion of the Coach best commands the respect of the other players on the pitch and who will LEAD BY EXAMPLE, play with pride for T&T, and "Blood in their shoes" be the Captain, and NOT his/her COLOR, RACE, ACCENT, OR PLACE OF ORIGIN. If we are ever to drop the "THIRD WORLD" tag, it will begin with changing our mentality to a becoming a MERIT-BASED SOCIETY!!!
