Gleaner: Foreign coach ‘unpalatable’
Friday, October 26th, 2007In an editorial, the Jamaica Gleaner argues that the choice of a “foreign coach” ignores the great cricket heritage in the West Indies:
What makes the selection of a foreign coach so unpalatable is that he is not, for example, a teacher or a doctor who is going to save lives. The coach is simply a man who teaches people how to bat, how to bowl, and how to field; and if a region that has produced, on its own, great batsmen, from George Headley to Brian Lara; great bowlers, from Learie Constantine to Curtley Ambrose, cannot find someone from home to do so again, then something is wrong, really wrong, with its people.
And it makes it worse that so many years after the abolition of slavery, so many years after the independence of so many territories in the region, the political champions who fought the good fight must now be turning in their graves at this insult to their memory.
* Utter hogwash.
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