respect to everybody. Just a note..I don't want people, particularly the German brothers on the site to think I am fighting gainst them. Respect to you. I love your country..very beautiful, and the people I met personally were first rate.
JT: No conflict with the girlfriend. We both recognize how things go. Color means to us only as much as injustice and society forces us to recognize it is an issue. Color not and issue between us. Proud to be black and couldn't and wouldn't have it any other way. It's what I am. Same for she.
Back to football...a hear five love so far.. Go BOYZ!!!!
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Obama/Biden 2012 - We need people who actually think in charge, though they should learn to lead!
Here's an interesting article from goalnetwork.com:
You can't go home again
ALEXANDER LEE
(goalnetwork) -- It isn’t club versus country any more; now it is JOB versus country.
The growing conflict between a player’s club and a player’s country is now moving from the heights of ethics, morality and loyalty down to the rock bottom depths of how a player pays his mortgage and puts food on the table.
Every time we come close to a new batch of World Cup qualifying games or continental championships – especially in the outlands of football like Africa, Oceania, the Americas and the Caribbean – we see a wealth of stories about clubs complaining, players being late or missing and FIFA laying down the edict that players must be released…..or else.
The new 'or else' has started to show itself as a trend with managers, mostly in the UK, muttering about not signing such players any more because they are prone to absenteeism on behalf of the lands which produced them.
Now the situation is becoming stark and the words of Paul Hall, one of the original Reggae Boyz, are worth looking at, as they were reported a few days ago when he said his international career for Jamaica was over, finished, done.
"At the end of last season all the teams that I was getting involved with asked if I would be playing for the national team. When I said yes, they said they could not be interested because I would be away for a good part of the campaign.
"That is how it is now. They do not want you flying half way around the world. Gradually the standard of the teams that would consider me was getting lower. I was looking at the top of the First Division and Premier League teams initially then after the international issue cropped up they just backed out."
"Under the Bosman ruling they said there are 500 players like yourself who will not be called up for international duties by their countries and though we appreciate that you are a good player, we could go in and get one of them.
"So I was left in a situation and I had to take a stand and said I would not be playing for the national team again so I could say that I have retired. If I did answer a call I would lose my place."
Hardly a day passed by before another Jamaican, Darren Moore, captain of Portsmouth, said he was being offered a new five-year contract if he, too, would call his international career at an end - at the age of 26 with Jamaica in with a chance of qualifying for their second World Cup in succession.
It is an insidious way to get around the rules; a terrible blow to the countries which produce players but don’t have the league or the money to keep them home; a terrible indictment of the clubs and managers who can not produce players themselves but take them from overseas on the cheap and are now starting to forbid them from going home again. On pain of being out of work.
Gentlemen! This discussion demonstrates our history. When we rely on whites to provide for us, we receive unequal treatment. The fault lies with "US". Listen to me carefuly. They enslaved our ancestors, treated them like lower level human beings, and continue to this day to treat us as inferior people, and we act suprise when they do things detrimental to us even when it has no benifit for them. We should be working to lower our need for their services. WE SHOULD BE INDEPENDANT PEOPLE, BODY AND MIND. Marcus Garvey wrote that the black man should take the best job that he could find from the white man to support his development. He must educate and save to truly free himself- FROM MENTAL SLAVERY (marley). When Jamaica or the caribbean can provide a comfortable living for its people this will nolonger be a major issue. I will share a thought I have had for some time with you all. Most of us are Jamaicain or people who care about our tiny island in the sun. We long on and discuss everything under the sun some times and we lament the bad things that happen to our beloved Reggae Boyz and jamaicain soccer. I have thought we could move from words to action. We can be the start of the solution. We gentleman could invest in jamaicain soccer. I have not given this full formal thought, it's and ideal in process were we can work it out together. We forumites could invest in jamaicain soccer by buying one or more premiere team. If we invested $100 us or more each, in a company chartered in Jamaica were we hold shares hire professional business people to manage the team and develop a small stadium. If this $100 is made each year for 5yrs assuming 1000 forumites invested 500,000 us will be available to start something. Please add, comment. We can do anything we really want to do. I am not affraid to lose $100 to Jamaica trying to do good. With much love to our blood everywhere in the world. Don
Interesting! Swansea postpone their match this weekend because players will be on international duty. They would not have done this if these players were borderline. Walter Boyd of Jamaica is one of those players that will be missing in action from Swansea. He's in the Jamaican squad to play St. Vincent this coming Sunday:
Blank weekend for Swansea
Fans are reminded that Swansea's Second Division match with Bristol City, scheduled for Saturday, September 2 has been postponed. The game has been called-off because the Swans have three players on international duty that day. At this stage no new date for the game has been arranged.
