Ok cool Tallman..thanks. The primary schools I went to, Scarborough Methodist and Eastern Boys, didn't seem to know anything about football.
Eastern boys had Cricket and Track. Never knew about primary school football, thought it didn't exist. Was wondering if that is why our national players seem to be technically deficient.
Played football at home though, little neighbourhood "leagues/games". Lived in Diamond Vale and that place has 'nuff fields, so it used to be street against street (growing up in D'Vale was great!). To this day don't know who organized these. Passed through there the other day, on a glorious Saturday afternoon and not a soul was kicking a lime seed even on any one of the 5 football fields.
Where all dem people gone? And dey eh making children? Where dem? How come the youth eh playing football like they use to? Or I missing something?
You must be mad!!!!! eastern boys had one of the best football coaches and some of the best players in the whole of EDR. men like paul rudder and his brother micheal (sabba) came out of eastern under coach rudy gordon. to me eastern produced some of the best footballers in the POS region.
Just Cool yuh call ah big player name dey....Sabba. Didn't they call Paul Rudder "sabba" as well? His older brother was before my time but I did hear stories of him. I remember going savannah playing under 12 and watching men like sabba, jerry jack, blackboy and marlon morris all playing for St. Francois. Didn't mean to go off on a tangent but Just Cool mentioned a name that brought back lots of memories
Breds, it eh have an athlete from EDR that i eh know, my contemporaries that is. listen, sabba was one for the national team(micheal) but he didn't pass common entrance so he never went to ah secondary school where he could be discovered, same for jerry jack, he didn't go to high school either so he was out of luck in that respect.
behind the bridge had boss players, fellas like phillip ermist, richard coo from the ophanage (he played with carib peter borough), jerry jack of st francios nationals, of course marlon morris who played on the strike squad, ah yute name junior from gonzales can't remember his last name but he had a brother named earlin, what ah boss player junior was, unfortunately only marlon morris made it to the national team, but the rest could'nt BC they didn't attend high school.
most fellas who didn't pass common entrance didn't have ah prayer of playing for the national team since most national players came through the colleges league, in my time that is.
BTW SM, yrs later they started callin paul rudder sabba, that's only BC his brother was that good, they started callin him small sabba then just plain ole sabba, but sabba was his older brother micheal. paul was on the yute national team, him and one hand teddy mice son, but they never made it to the senior team.