Good luck to T&T, but I’m afraid you will have to watch your team be trounced by Bahrain )

- Chan’ad (on the other side of the planet)

The Soca Warriors are come from behind experts so don’t expect Bahrain to walk away with victory. Go SOCA WARRIORS.

We got the luck of the Irish!!! We won!!

[...] The team Trinidad & Tobago beat in order to qualify was Bahrain (hence the oft-repeated line that whichever team won would be the smallest country ever to qualify), and this being sport, Bahraini blogger Chana’d left a good natured comment at Caribbean Free Radio that morning: “You will have to watch your team be trounced by Bahrain.” The country came to a virtual standstill (the Senate included) in order to watch/listen to the broadcast from the Bahraini capital of Manama. Nicholas Laughlin blogged extensively during the match itself, and Caribbean Free Radio relayed the radio broadcast to contacts abroad via Skype. Ryan Naraine, Taran Rampersad and Nicholas Laughlin have saved me some legwork by posting link summaries, but most of the buzz about the match came, naturally, out of Trinidad & Tobago itself, much of it taking the form of brief cries of ecstacy, some of it referring to the unsportsmanlike behaviour of the Bahraini team and fans. [...]