Buh Contro even before the El Salvador NT incident, you've been on record as making similar suggestions to explain poor performances. Doh use the recent incident to roll this new accusation out.
Nonetheless, serious issue in world football in some locations. However, our team is very insulated ... especially when on the road. Hard for them to be approached. But, more than that, the team and players have something to prove in the red, white and black AND futures to protect.
Also, the issue has never been endemic in T&T as it has been in other countries.
By the way, the Salvadorans were NOT susceptible precisely because of what had occurred previously.
Doh clutch at straws.
I haven't accused anyone, I'm thinking outside the box and posing hypotheticals... Narrowing it down to just poor performances is not fully analyzing why I make these statements. It's games that mean something, not meaningless games my friend.
Why is it hard to be approached on the road? Is it easier locally than when they travel? Would you put your head on a chopping block that we are that insulated that no one has or ever has approached players? Unless you're the NSA, Five Eyes or in counter intelligence I highly doubt you can dismiss any hypothetical I just posed.
How do you explain JW and Fifa and that was going on for over 3 decades in our football... If most of the corruption is not uncovered how can you assume it doesn't happen in T&T? Maybe our people are better at covering it up than other nations, I can't just assume we are not as corrupt when it exists on the lowest levels of governance in our nation, far less for sport.
I've spoken to people from El Sal who have mentioned this previously, so what straws am I clutching at? You're making assumptions as if you know 100% without a doubt there is no corruption. Which is unrealistic and naive..
I would agree that the El Salvador-Honduras situation presents another learning moment to ring the message of caution to our travelling delegations. Other than that, accept the legitimacy of the loss. Doh make reckless accusations.
By the way, it's an error to lump graft and pile "corruption" into the same bundle of rationality as match-fixing. Although match-fixing is a "corrupt practice", twinning it to the FIFA scandal in your mind confirms, suggests or establishes what exactly?
Yeah, there is corruption in Trinidad & Tobago. We learned that shortly after learning to "pitch marble". When did you learn the word "match-fixing"?
In T&T the issue is never not knowing about bobol. The issue tends to be holding those involved accountable.
Again, accept the 4-0 loss. Doh make reckless accusations. Dahis NOT befitting of a SUPPORTER of the team.
Ah see our players on the road. I eh want to invest too much time in unbalancing your speculation with my direct observation. Our players on the road are businesslike. They doh lime and they are not out and about in public jes so. They are in their rooms, in team meetings, resting, sleeping etc. On the bus, off the bus. No liming in de hotel lobby or trolling de hallways.
Once again and I will reiterate, I am not making accusations nor saying the players took money, I am posing a hypothetical and opening up what seems to be a very sensitive topic to some for discussion. You're taking it too serious and not looking at the possibilities from multiple angles.
I learned the word match fixing as a 12 year old in middle school, when I was asked to do a research project on my sport and controversial topics that relate to the sport... Which has nothing to do with my current topic so I don't know what you're trying to achieve by asking foolish questions...
So you are still avoiding my counter where I asked is it impossible? Unless you plan to attach irrefutable to your argument? So the possibility of us not knowing is also ruled out by your logic? So in your eyes it will and never was an issue of not knowing about certain corruption because there is no possibility of that existing?
I will always be a true supporter, win, lose or draw. The complexity of corruption in world sport is not for the faint hearted nor simple minded. I didn't realize that posing questions and hypotheticals take away from my support for the team... Match fixing is under the corruption banner, unless you have another category for it that I don't know of, it's all corruption and you can draw comparisons to FIFA and national teams and federations. It is not implausible, if they can exist at the top, why is it implausible to exist on the bottom going up?
Why not invest time? You are a supporter with direct contact to the players as you say, so why not talk about it? Where there is a will there's a way... If someone wants to fix a match they can get in contact before they arrive, via email, text or something that doesn't involve them walking to a dark room with a guy in the shadows smoking a cigar...
We live in the age of IT and things are not as backwards as before.. So it's easy to access someone anywhere in the world..