The Perfect Point

You know what bothers me? The possibility of the Kashif and Shanghai year-end football tournament not being held this year. There are several factors on which this year’s competition hinges but it all leads back to money.

As US media mogul Rupert Murdoch states emphatically, if the answer to any question you pose isn’t money, that question needs to be restated! Now I’ll begin by pointing out that the competition benefits clubs, associations, the Guyana Football Federation, hotels, restaurants and virtually every form of entrepreneurship in Linden and also not in the least the two organizers Kashif Mohammed and Aubrey `Shanghai’ Major. The excitement in the air come tournament time (coincidentally or strategically it is held at the end of the year when purse strings are significantly looser and the purses themselves notably heavier) permeates the air with each game of some significance on the collective lips of football fans. The teams look forward to being invited to play in this country’s top football event, the players to showcasing their skills to the largest local audience, the advertisers to the target audience it attracts, the fans to the football buffet laid and the organizers, well