Ah few yrs ago i went to a footballing nation for a couple of days, while i was there i got tickets to take in a club game, so naturally i attended. folks,
when i was half a mile away i heard the roar of the crowd, it was music for sore ears, i was about ten minutes late due to traffic so i got there not long after KO. let me tell alllyuh, the place was electric and packed with ppl for a week day. ppl were there from all different walks of life, the rich and the poor all gathered together to watch their favorite teams go @ it.
now i've been to the garden to watch the knicks and the rangers, been to yankee and shea stadium, even been to tampa bay to watch the buccaneers, but i've never seen or heard such vociferousness and i've never seen ppl take a sport so seriously, it's almost like i was in ah big temple where ppl was there to pay homage to an idol of some sort, that's how serious the vibe was.
now my point here is, "FOOTBALLING NATION", these ppl were apparently very serious about their football, and i believe that if any turkey came there to snatch their football away, they would fight like hell to get it back!
not for one second did i believe that if some chump tried to deny them of the best footballing experience, those ppl would take it laying down, but rather, the impression i got, is of a ppl who would throw rocks and set things on fire, both the rich and the poor alike. this is what i call a footballing nation.
fast forwarding to last yr 2011, i went to the stadium (HSC) to watch ah cup semifinal double header, joe public vs calidonia AIA, and defense force vs W. connection. it was right after carnival so there were still visitors on the island, and lemme tell allyuh, it was ghost town, the only thing was missing was the big rolls of hay blowing round, but the place was as desolate as a desert.
if the stadium had 500 ppl it would've been a lot. now could you imagine an FA cup semifinal @ wembly attracting only 10,000 ppl ??
now that would be a travesty of epic proportions, now wouldn't it. and these ppl in T&T want tuh call themselves a football nation, don't make me laugh!
i guess it's bc of that "FLUKE" yes i said it! the "FLUKE" of a World cup that gave them illusions of grandeur! how could you claim footballing nation status when your only yute development program is the SSFL, ah seasonal school league that last only three months? please, don't make me laugh.
how could these ppl seriously call this a footballing nation when they've been without a pro league until recently, and the one they have is run like a corner parlor ? a pro league with very little sponsors and incentives, one that go on long arse breaks, and sometimes could be out of action between games two weeks @ a time, how could this be a pro league when there are no home team grounds for teams to attract a neighborhood/ area fan base, no team sport shops, and no spectatorship, a league where most of the teams play @ snail pace and players lack basic skills, like trapping, passin and simple fitness, and no one is phased or have any plans of changing this? and they want to be recognize as a footballing nation. don't make me laugh
How could you be a footballing nation when you don't have one solitary youth academy?? not one! when places who take football seriously have them dime a dozen! the youth can't trapp, pass or kick a ball properly, these things are basics, and is learned @ a tender age so it becomes 2nd nature., how could we be a footballing nation under these circumstances. don't make me laugh!
last but not least. how could we allow ah few ppl to over run our football for sooooo long! man get rich, and his pardners in crime were well on their way tuh getting rich. these men trample on football and made a killing, while doing zilch for football, and we the ppl just stood idly by and allow this, and we want tuh call ourselves a footballing nation.
well ppl in footballing nations, folks who live for football don't stand by and watch vultures eat away @ the core of their football, NO WAY! they stand up, they protest, they bring ppl to account, they let their voices be heard!
not once , we as ah ppl who claim to love football, even us here in the SWO stood up and be counted! we talk, we run we mout, we even pecong jamaica, while jamiaca is doing more than us for their football, but other than that we do nothing but "talk", about our displeasure, about the federation, about jack, about anil, about all who we could put we mouth on,
but who here ever said enough is enough and meant it, with the intentions of making our voices be heard.
who am i kidding, these ppl won't even stand up for their players being attacked by a bunch of spanish in their own home turf, let alone stand up against football injustices from their own ppl, so don't make me laugh! bc we eh have shyte to do with football!
i just want allyuh tuh understand what a footballing nation look like, and tuh let allyuh know that we eh no footballing nation! as FF said the other day, "we're just a nation that like to watch pretty football" and not necessarily a footballing nation. so don't make me laugh!
fack a petition, we need to mobilize!