Wave your flag, Mr Linesman

I also remember the Strike Squad and how Philbert “Pamo” Jones was almost decapitated by a high-flying US defender in the early stage of a crucial match which decided our fate on the Road To Italy. No penalty was awarded.

This thing about referees and linesmen making mistakes in Port-of-Spain is not new. I am accustomed to that, so I won’t get hot under the collar over the disallowed goal last week against Mexico. I am not going to call for the Jamaican referee to be hanged in Woodford Square. No siree! What I will do is sentence the linesman, with FIFA approval, to listening with headphones to SuperBlue’s Get Something and Wave at full blast for a year. He must also wave that flag non-stop for a year. I don’t mind if he does a few gyrations while waving. I don’t even mind if he jumps and waves till he is tired.

Mr Linesman, you like to wave and misbehave? Take that!

Keith Anderson via email