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    <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=TopStory>Warner blasts CWC organisers</SPAN>
    <SPAN class=Subheadline></SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>AFP
    Saturday, March 03, 2007
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    <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=358 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>WARNER. some of the islands should not be hosting matches. their monies should have been spent to make life better for their people</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>KINGSTON, Jamaica (AFP) - Top Caribbean football administrator Austin 'Jack' Warner has blasted organisers of the Cricket World Cup for their "atrocious" marketing of the sport's global showpiece.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"This event was government funded, so they do not have to worry about money," Warner, a vice-president of FIFA, football's world governing body, said of the nine host nations.
    "If they had to pick up the tab, then they would have been marketing the event as a religion."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Warner, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, also listed a number of organisational shortcomings, and warned that the world expected the Caribbean to fail at hosting the event.
    "They expect us in the Caribbean to fail," he told a symposium in Trinidad for Caribbean sports correspondents.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"They already know that we will fail on the field. They have already predicted that. They also want us to fail off the field.
    "One bad experience can make the whole event go sour. We need to be on guard. What the world expects is to see a flaw in our organisation to say: 'I told you so, those natives can't do it'.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"CWC 2007 was thrust upon us. Some of the islands should not be hosting matches. Their monies should have been spent to make life better for their people."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Warner expressed concern that the thousands of visitors who will be in the Caribbean and the millions following the matches may not get what they expected.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"What the world expects is much more than cricket," he said. "They expect passion, they expect excitement.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"They expect good security, hassle-free travel, and very little trouble to get into the venue, along with the social events around the cricket, with the region's indigenous music being the mainstay."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Warner also bemoaned there was not even a village to promote the island's very popular and colourful Carnival, or a calypso tent only days after the end of T and T's annual Carnival celebrations.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"The world expects to see other things as well, but will their expectations be fulfilled?"
    THERE IS ONLY ONE ONANDI LOWE!

    "Good things come out of the garrisons" after his daughter won the 100m Gold For Jamaica.


    "It therefore is useless and pointless, unless it is for share malice and victimisation to arrest and charge a 92-year-old man for such a simple offence. There is nothing morally wrong with this man smoking a spliff; the only thing wrong is that it is still on the law books," said Chevannes.

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    RE: Warner blasts CWC organisers

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    Colourful Test umpire Billy Bowden of New Zealand displays his <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">trademark</SPAN> smile and 'crooked finger' dismissal signal shortly after his arrival at Sangster International Airport on Friday night. - Adrian Frater photo

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    IT WOULD appear that the <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">West </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Indies</SPAN> team created an unfavourable impression on their arrival at the Sangster International Airport in <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Montego </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Bay</SPAN> on Friday afternoon as airport workers were clearly not impressed with their manners and general attitude.

    Having missed the arrival of the West Indians because news of their arrival was not communicated on time, when the local media turned up for the back-to-back arrival of Kenya and the <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Netherlands</SPAN>, the complaints about the Caribbean side were plenty.

    "I felt insulted by the
    THERE IS ONLY ONE ONANDI LOWE!

    "Good things come out of the garrisons" after his daughter won the 100m Gold For Jamaica.


    "It therefore is useless and pointless, unless it is for share malice and victimisation to arrest and charge a 92-year-old man for such a simple offence. There is nothing morally wrong with this man smoking a spliff; the only thing wrong is that it is still on the law books," said Chevannes.

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      RE: Warner blasts CWC organisers

      <P class=StoryText align=justify>"What the world expects is much more than cricket," he (Jack Warner)said. "They expect passion, they expect excitement.<P class=StoryText align=justify>
      <P class=StoryText align=justify>You could substitute the word "cricket" with "football". That's why the USA did not deserve World Cup 1994.<P class=StoryText align=justify>I apologise for agreeing with Jack.


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