J.W.: ... A draft manuscript of this book Foul! is in my possession, highlighting my name, FIFA President Sepp Blatter's, and others whom he plans to malign, in the hope that they can do damage to the character of Mr Blatter and Mr Jack Warner. In the book, Liburd and Jennings accuse me of fixing matches to benefit T&T, siphoning funds and a host of other accusations which can only come from a pair of warped minds. They have vowed to bring down the President of FIFA, Sepp Blatter and one of his vice-presidents, Jack Warner. Liburd is billed to serialise this book on the Express later this year-his editor, no doubt a willing partner in this exercise...January 3, Crowne Plaza.
K.S.: Jack, Jack! Is true I turned on local journalism with the serialisation of Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance but I swear on my father JB's grave that the first I ever heard about this Foul! serialisation is when you said it. Now look what you have done-gone and put ideas in one seta people head, including tens of thousands of my Express readers who are going to say I 'fraid you if I don't go ahead and serialise it. But one doesn't just go and serialise any book just so. How I know that what Andrew Jennings write in this book is true. In fact, old friend, they'd better not be true because it would turn Trinidad and Tobago's World Cup historic achievement into an occasion for national shame and neither me nor anybody else would be able to stand it, the whole world targeting "Trickidadians" because this man write (I know you just fling in Liburd name there to calumnise the young boy) how you fix games to grease we way into the Finals. Just because we small and half black all kinda white people now want to wash they nasty mouth on we-ent Jack? Buh, Jack, tell me something, how come you manage to get a copy of the manuscript of the book even before the book print.
Man, the long arms of the law short like Goat Street (bet not even you know where that is) compared to yours and FIFA's. Still full of lies as the book must be you went to some lengths to get it before it come out-Jennings must feel you and Blatter is Eriksson and Blair. Well monkey (Ha! How's that for a turnaround!?) go find out what tree to climb.
J.W.: ...I do not intend to continually reply to Mr Liburd's concoctions since this will serve his purpose only too well and that of the PNM. In fact I am emboldened by the Express attack on me and quite frankly hold no grudge for the paper.
Keith Smith did what he felt he had to do (in spite of the fact that he changed a positive article designed for his Sunday Christmas newspaper into a negative and most vicious one) but I, ladies and gentlemen, will also carry out my own national duty which is to rescue my country and return it to being the sweet, sweet T&T we all remembered it to be just a few years ago before the PNM resumed office...January 3, Crowne Plaza.
K.S.: Boy, they must be put me, yes. Since I small they putting my name in all kinda ting as if K not for "Keith" but "Kankalang". Ah mean, wey the hell you get this thing about me "changing a positive article designed for my Sunday Christmas paper into a negative and most vicious one". Again I swear to you, on my dead grandmother Lucy's grave this time, that had I a "positive article designed for my Sunday Christmas paper" I'd probably have put it on Page 1, it being Christmas Day and all. Unfortunately, I had no such story as I had the week before-remember "A Kidney for Christmas-brother gets the gift of life"?-and as I told our mutual friend and your employee, Roy Augustus, when he called to ask how I could put the Liburd expose on Page 1 on Christmas Day (admiringly loyal as ever, he called it "ah pile ah ass") news is competitive, the biggest story reaching the editor's desk on the day going on Page 1, regardless, which means that if a story broke on Gloria Saturday, "POPE ELOPES", bet our Catholic lives (mine and Roy's, that is) that would be the front page news on every newspaper in the world including the Vatican's L'Osservatore.
Finally for the moment (but only for the moment since I find people find this series sizzling) what is the PNM's locus standi in this local soccer scandal? Oh, yes, I see.
Is a case of your balancing your two hats or, to more accurately, two of your hats. Is not that you saying this is a PNM-engendered plot or that Lasana has a PNM agenda with this particular issue (you know more than anybody else he has been a thorn-all right, all right, at least a picker in your historically thick hide-long before you declared your political hand) but that the PNM will, in the fullness of electoral time, use all the ongoing ticket talk, not only here but elsewhere, against you. I have to admit you have a point there-even now, perhaps, that party's strategists sizing up this facial egg which you might very well have given them, pot spoon and all, on a greased platter. Patrick Manning, "Mr Big", being a different kettle of fried fish than lil Lasana.