WIN, LOSE OR DRAW I does support the West Indies cricket team. Yes, I know that regularly they would give you a heart attack but I sticking with them through thick or thin or ’til they kill me.
But, I did feel real bad the other day when a fella in a shop kept laughing and teasing me ’bout the Windies.
One time, he used to support the West Indies, but he turned his back on them back in the ’90s, when as he likes to say, “After what them do wid Desmond Haynes I did done wid them”, so he now supports Australia.
The thing is, the man laughing at me and I could hardly unpick my teeth. If you hear him, “Look what you come to now, look how poor you get, you now begging teams to beat Ireland, Ireland yuh, Ireland a team that beat and embarrass you, you now begging teams to beat them to give you a chance to progress in the World Cup, you should be shame.”
And poor me could not say a word, I sat there like a loopy dog. He went on to ask, “Do you really believe you deserve to go on to the next round ahead of Ireland?”
And before I could say a word he answered his own question, “No! cause wunna aint no good, right now Ireland a country that ain’t known for cricket, a country that more known for making Guinness looks like a more professional team than wunna, wunna deserve to be on the next flight back home.”
And poor me could not say a word. But he ain’t stop: “Wunna cricketers only interested in big money, watch and see that them don’t perform for West Indies, but from the time they go India for the IPL and getting big money, all them does be skating ’bout on the field and giving their best for their IPL masters.”
And poor me sat there and could not say a word. By this time he had a large audience with many people voicing their agreement and spurring him on. He continued: “Look how them make the young boy Jason Holder the captain and then refuse to give him the best team to work with, that is wickedness. Bravo and Pollard should have been in that team but they victimise them, them only using that boy, them gine take him, destroy him and then dump him.”
And poor me could not say a word. And he continued, “West Indies cricket would never be any better, wunna just re-elect a president of the cricket board, one Dave Cameron, this is the same man who oversaw the fiasco in India that saw the West indies team pulling out of that recent tour, and now the board got to find US$42 million to repay India, and wunna give him back a job. . . there is no other sport or organisation in the world, that a president could be involved in a event which costs his company US$42 million and get to keep his job.”
Well I was able to talk then, and yes I agreed with him, especially when he said, “This is the same man, who as president, retweeted and repeated an insulting message about Chris Gayle one of your premiere players for the whole world to see, what kinda boss does publicly make laughing sport at his workers?”
“That is why I want wunna get send home, wunna don’t deserve to be there ahead of Ireland,” he concluded.
And poor me sat there and could not say a word. See ya.
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