Fifa coaching instructor Anton Corneal explains why the Leo Beenhakker-led Trinidad and Tobago technical staff opted to use Dwight Yorke as a deep-lying midfielder for the Germany 2006 World Cup. Look out for Corneal’s full interview on the Burdie and Barney Show from Friday 11 June, as we discuss Beenhakker’s …
Read More »B&B Ep 9: Angus Eve on Bertille’s life lesson, developing Molino, and the Pres-Naps rivalry
Trinidad and Tobago’s most capped Men’s National Senior Team footballer, 1991 Fifa U-20 World Cup ace, and Naparima College stand-out coach Angus Eve on his apprenticeship under Ron La Forest, pointers from Russell Latapy, Dwight Yorke and David Nakhid, Bertille St Clair’s life lesson, developing Kevin Molino and Kerry Baptiste, …
Read More »B&B (Trailer) Makan Hislop: How Tobago footballers are disadvantaged
Former Soca Warriors defender and 2001 World Youth Cup player Makan Hislop explains how Tobago footballers get a raw deal when trying to get into the national team. Subscribe for free to the Burdie and Barney Show to hear the full interview and check out our entire archive at Apple …
Read More »B&B Ep 6: Latapy on becoming the ‘Little Magician’, Barbados and the 2006 W/Cup
Trinidad and Tobago football legend Russell ‘The Little Magician’ Latapy discusses his rise in the game from playing small goal football in Laventille, the 1990 and 2006 World Cup campaigns, coaching Barbados, and a string of influential coaches—including Jean Lillywhite, Everald ‘Gally’ Cummings, Bobby Robson, José Mourinho, and Leo Beenhakker. …
Read More »B&B (Trailer): Latapy: How Yorke talked me into joining 2006 W/Cup campaign
“[…] He told me there was one piece of the puzzle that was missing… and I kinda knew exactly what he was coming with…” Iconic Trinidad and Tobago footballer Russell ‘The Little Magician’ Latapy reveals how close friend and national football captain Dwight Yorke talked him into joining the Soca …
Read More »B&B Ep 3: Bertille St Clair on Dwight Yorke and the three ‘A’s’ of developing talent
Former Trinidad and Tobago national football coach Bertille St Clair describes his coaching legacy, Signal Hill, the making of Dwight Yorke and the three ‘A’s’ of developing talent. Subscribe for free to Burdie and Barney for our entire archive of interviews at Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, or TuneIn Radio, …
Read More »B&B (Trailer): St Clair on two Signal Hill stars—Wendell Moore and Dwight Yorke
Former Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Bertille St Clair remembers Tobago’s first professional football player and the young man who should have preceded him: Dwight Yorke and Wendell Moore respectively. Look out for St Clair’s full interview on the Burdie and Barney Show from Wednesday 24 …
Read More »Flashback: The Dwight stuff, why Yorke’s latter day revival was simply genius
The following article, written by Lasana Liburd, was first published in the Trinidad Express Sport Magazine on Thursday 15 December 2005: Dwight Yorke is a genius. No, really. He should hold an honorary diploma from the University of the West Indies (UWI). He should speak to the underprivileged and the …
Read More »Flashback: Ex-England manager, Taylor, on Yorke, Hutchinson and T&T footballers
The following article, based on an interview between ex-England and Aston Villa manager Graham Taylor and journalist Lasana Liburd, was first published in Trinidad Express on 6 May 2004: “Let me tell you something that will always stay with me,” said former England and Aston Villa manager Graham Taylor. “I …
Read More »(Flashback) Hail Team T&T—the aftermath of that magical night in Bahrain
This article written by Lasana Liburd was first published in the Trinidad Express and offers a peek into the Soca Warriors’ dressing room on an unforgettable Wednesday night in Bahrain on 16 November 2005: “We going Ger-many! We going Ger-many!” Trinidad and Tobago goalkeeper Shaka Hislop was in full cry …
Read More »Dear editor: Football dreams of our youth are bigger than Fifa/TTFA; gov’t should intervene
“[…] The continuing impasse—aggravated by the challenges of Covid-19—could effectively jettison the hopes and aspirations of thousands of young people throughout Trinidad and Tobago to improve their lives and their livelihood through football. “[…] Now, with their dreams deferred, the youngsters could easily fall prey to the crime-lord lobbyists who …
Read More »How Britain is losing the race: what Yorke, Hislop, Sancho and more faced in UK
This report was initially written by Lasana Liburd for the Trinidad Express newspaper and published there on 25 November 2004: It was not, as Birmingham City chairman David Sullivan pointed out, the ‘crime of the century’. The British Soccernet website claimed that the Blackburn Football Club, the site of the …
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