More Shorts
- Despite making an appearance at FIFA World Cup 2006 the football gods have conspired against Trinidad and Tobago and in the latest FIFA rankings released this month T&T has been dropped 24 places and is now ranked 80th in the world. Now we all know that the FIFA ranking system is a little flawed, but come on. You would think making it to the World Cup and leaving with a point would amount to something. Not so.
However CONCACAF on a whole only just manages to break the top 20 with Mexico coming it at 19 followed by a more suitably-ranked USA coming in at 29. Brazil of course is at #1.
Somehow I think it’s a size issue. I think we’d get a lot more respect if Trinidad was a larger country. But what are you going to do? You can’t argue with FIFA.
In other happenings, Leo Beenhakker is featured in a story appearing on FIFA’s website concerning his Poland job. It’s a good read if anyone’s interested.
- West Indies pulled of a great win against world No 1 Australia to win their Group A round 1 match against the Aussies in the ICC Champions Trophy. Runako Morton and Brian Lara both had good knocks of 90 and 71 respectively to help raise the Windies total to 234 at the end of the 50 overs. Australia, with a 101 run partnership from Adam Gilchrist and Michael Clarke, looked like they were going to be able to steadily make the 235 necessary, however that was until Gilchrist’s was run out with him on 92 and then it was all downhill from there. In the melee, Jerome Taylor picked up the first West Indies hat-trick in a One-Day International and finished off with figures of 4-49.
Australia was eventually scuttled out for 224/9 in their 50 overs.
- Well Rehanna Ramlochan has been found dead. The 22 year old woman’s body was found in a shallow grave at the Tunapuna Cemetery 12 days after she went missing. Police are saying that it wasn’t a kidnapping but actually a domestic dispute that resulted in her death.
Since the Prime Minister’s “anyone who kidnaps someone for ransom will be caught” declaration doesn’t cover murders, it seems he may be off the hook.
But it has been a bloody two weeks for crimes of passion. Trinidad has seen at least 7 deaths resulting from murder-suicides from the past two weeks alone, which have helped to push our murder rate beyond 300.
I guess it’s just another great day in Trinidad.
- *I almost forgot I wanted to post my Sampson stats for all to see. I think I alluded more than once that posting the story on Sampson Nanton returned the best stats I’ve had in this blogs short life. And I know many of you reading right now have found my blog because you typed “Sampson Nanton sex pictures” into Google. Don’t even pretend that you didn’t. I know because I see the stats all the time. And up till today I still get about 100 hits per day just from people looking for lurid cell phone pics. (Sorry people, no pics here either).
But anyway just posting the story got me thousands of page loads and a whole new set of readers, for which I am eternally grateful to Sampson. So just for amusement, here’s a snapshot of what Sampson hysteria looks like if it were represented by a bar graph (with the actual figures removed though).
I posted the story on Thursday September 21st and maybe on the following Saturday I got some hits, but I can’t be sure. The real hits began coming in on that Sunday and took off. Of course when most people realized there were no pics on the site they just didn’t come back, which you can see from the difference between the stats for the page loads and those for the returning visits. But thanks to those of you who did.
4 Responses to “More Shorts”
By Alexia on Oct 19, 2006 | Reply
Well i guess i miss that post…Just goes to show u how Trini like a baccannal, thats d only thing that can get they attention.
Oh well!
I like your post for the politics!!
By Sanjiva on Oct 19, 2006 | Reply
HAHAHAHA…Sampson Nanton “Peaks!”….Oh lord…
By Hottie Hottie on Oct 19, 2006 | Reply
The poll on Sampson’s pole. Lemme stay outta dat one yes, Kyah handle that man buddering meh again.
By Mani on Oct 23, 2006 | Reply
Alexia - Well thanks, but I can’t hate on Sampson or on bacchannal nah. They’ve helped me a lot.
Sanjiva - Thanks Sanjiva, for helping me fix my graph.
Hottie - lol, well that’s one of the polls. LOL, I doubt though that Sampson is a regular reader.