QUINCY WAS QUINTESSENTIAL, THREE OMISSIONS IN A ROW WAS TANTAMOUNT TO TAUNTING THE HEAVENS, WALAHI! [1]

Dearest maniac chieftains and unadulterated fabulous addicts, as the chief propagator of the 'Ghanaian Boys, the Best' chorus and as the Chief Maniac and Emperor of Utopia, you all bear witness to my 'megalomania', for alomgside President Mills have I not been very vocal about our total ability to win the World Cup with no apology whatsoever and I was telling you how the Heavens have a vested interest in Ghana's success and how we were to fill our quiver with poisoned arrows and so long as we fielded our most venomous gaboon vipers the Heavens would flow down mercies in consonance with our honest intelligent exertions. Oh fellow maniacs, what did I not say short of 'thus saith the Lord', eh, and I expressly told the world that 'who says we got no aces' and how we should delete the tolerant condescention f rom our 'vocabs' and I don't just 'punch the air' but I meditate 'day and night' on these things and fully obeying the principles of ' the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom', yes and with the search for knowledge that being a Rastafarian entails, my dearest fellow maniacs , you know that it is not possible for me to ever mislead any of you in soccer especially when we were on this maximum importance 'home games' world cup down S.A. I even had to be mercilessly truthful about the abilities of Amoah and Tagoe going to great lengths to defend Ghana's 'soccer dignity' by telling all and sundry that 'as for Amoah and Tagoe forget them', Lord knows it wasn't out of malice, neither envy, but in wartime there is no diplomatic talk when the bullets are killing you, so Amoah and Tagoe forgive me it's not that you are 'useless', far from it, but you just fall a little bit short of the requirements of 'world champs'and I am too divinely blessed in football skill and knowledge of the easiest routes to fast goals not to know this, and let's sidestreet with a little tale from when man was about 10years old before we get back to the mainroad.

We are playing backyard 5 a side with goalies in between parted stones and boy you had to shoot very accurately fo there to ber no disputes about whether the ball passed over or besides the stones, and the game is in my Dutch classmate Sjoerd Gruter's backyard and in the heat of the game, dear Mrs Gruter would stand by the kitchen door, watch us for a couple of minutes and say, 'first person to score a goal gets a glass of orange juice and a cookie' and believe me I was the sole recipient everytime for it never took more than a couple of minutes and I'd see the route to goal as easily as A,B,C. This is my Dutch friend who I actually had fisticuffs with when he tried to say 'Johann Cruyff is better than Osei Kofi' , no be easy 'koraa', ha, ha. He even gave me an Ajax jersey with Cruyff's picture embossed in frpnt and can you imagine their house when Holland whacked Brazil that all time legendary 3 nil in the '74 World Cup in the then West Germany? II am playing soccer at Dansoman Railways Park and some bretheren of mine were passing through and after greeting me were proceeding along and I shout to them 'why, you dey go , wait make I score one goal for you make you walk top' and it took me four minutes to slot the ball to their profound admiration. I once with a cousin of Papa Arko's engineered the most impossible comeback in Shaolin Park annals, by coming on as subs after an hour and over turning a five nil deficit by banging in six goals within six round minutes, three from the rightwing as I deliver some 'overspeed' assists to Fergusen to get a snappy hat trick and with the crowd howling deliriously, I move into the middle, engage this maniac chieftain with a double portion of wall passing on the run from the centre arc which ended in me slotting thrice in three minutes, I didn't imbibe the 'Ibrahim Sunday to Yaw Sam, back to Sunday, Sunday to Yaw Sam, back to Sunday, it is a Goooaaaaal!' No I didn't watch them for nothing and one Saturday morn in the latter nineties ,this teenager watching me from behind the goalposts I was scoring, exclaimed 'Rasta is not a Godfather, he's a Messiah' , I enter a public transport like a decade back and the mate shouts 'Rasta, say GOOOAAAAL and I didn't even know the guy but apparently he'd been witness to one supreme rulage that Jah made me rule KariKari park with when I got a winning gual when I was being discriminated against by letting me come on with about eight minutes of time left and I got the winner within three minutes with my third touch of the ball and we are they who have never played Premier league and I really have to cease fire for I ain't even started yet. I score with backheels and 'kanja' is the Ga name for 'backheel' and is one of my nicknames in the 'hood' so how on Earth wont I love Quincy Owusu Abeyie in whom I see all those fast brain, fast goals, fancy in the marrow stylistics and that 'ponko abodam' 'crazy horse roller coasting of his which is outrageously energetic, look , I haven't seen such a player who doesn't need support as this Quincy guy, I've never met him before but according to all my knowledge abou t 'as being slippery as an eel' went, and we talking electric eels here, boy, I was in perfect consonance with JAH most High who in his overall wisdom allotted Nation Ghana this genius who was destined to be a prime mover in this holy and sanctified assault on the world soccer super powers, yes did I not week in week out extol his amazing virtues along with super striker, Egyptian based Eric Bekoe, a next blessed youth who through great deeds of valour, was embedded in our 'manic hearts' , yes the sermon was simple and I preached it to the hilt and the gist of it was that I don't care who you take to the world cup just make sure Quincy and Bekoe are not omitted, that is if we really want to win the world cup. Well, Bekoe was sinfully omitted and Quincy was wisely included and after Holland trounced us in that friendly who was it that scored Latvia to give us a sense of self respect? Quintessential Quincy got the lone goal and I thought that was enough for Coach Milo to discern that it was the sanctified truth that without Quincy, the world cup would be truly out of reach for I can assure all of you that Quincy's involvement has been signed and sealed in Heaven and if you don't know this you are not one of Nana Kwamina Ansa's, Asemeni's or Nkrumah's countrymen, when you read the words of distinct prophecy that Nana Kwamina Ansa said to Don Diego D'Azambuja when the 'whiteman' first set foot in Elmina, Lord have mercy, you will know that the Ghanaian cannot be a fool. Yes we told you everything short of JAH Himself stepping down to tell you ,ao, what didn't I tell you? Then when we step down South, instead of giving us the honest to God 'brood of vipers' first selection, 'THEY' included this 'non venomous' grasssnake Prince Tagoe and instead of using our first two matches to finetune the 'hurricanes and cyclones' we went into this simplistic nauseating intransigence and devalued the seriousness of our mission by insulting the Heavens and wasting everyones precious time with such treasonable impudence it was 'marked' in Heaven, Walahi! When I have told you the file from Heaven you are 'forcing' to disregard what you know in your soul to be true and you can humour yourself but AH is not a 'jwoker' in Heaven 'koraa' every one say 'didn't lie yourself [don't lie to your own soul].DIDN'T. We still hadn't sorted ourselves out by the third match and yet look at our respectable performance, then what the blooming hell will happen when you start Quincy? Against Germano, no Quincy, against Yankee for 120 minutes, no Quincy, yet sweet Lord sees us through and then our folly takes hold of us. Dede Ayew is poisoning every rat ,rabbit and antelope in sight yet the 'one goal project is in full effect despite Dede exhibiting great volumes of Lion whelp's qualities and JAH knows Quincy has a higher volume of poison in his 'poison ducts' in fact Quincy is the most venomous of the brood yet the Devil veiled 'their' eyes and they attempted this high treason on Mother Ghana.. JAH let Dede miss the quarters in order for Quincy to get full leverage even before Alhaji Sulley who is also a king but not with the 'electrical storms and lightening s ' that Quincy operates with. Yes Quincy was supposed to get that first shirt yet JAH let Muntari prove his royalty and nothing stopped Quincy from entering the fray by the 55th minute seeing Muntari had played his role and could bow out proudly and gracefully but ,NO, we won against America without Quincy, you see say Rasta dey talk like he sabe ball pass us all, even though he 'chopped us bettings' on Tagoe, let us disregard the howling for Quincy , can't you see the whole of Africa is praying for us, let us obliterate Quincy's star role to shreds and get another leading actor to play the role, Quincy is not the only film star in Ghana, look, we will even let Matthew Amoah have a bite, did Rasta not tell us to 'forget' Amoah and Tagoe, look Coach , even Mandela knows we will win, we will see who are the true guru's, yes , when the Heavens had set everything in place for us we used 'one goal project staff' and it would be only when Quincy started that we could be fully unbridled and you would all give me my full salute for how can I pretend to be a dummy, how can I put my candlelight under a bushel , yes Quincy would engineer 2 or 3 goals by the hour mark, Walahi! As for me I knew that with Quincy alongside Kevin Prince we would outjig and out juggle all and sundry for in the little bite of the cherry that Quincy had against Australia, he moved from our rightback position with the ball towards the centre dot and released a fast one to Kevin who gives a single touch and it's with Gyan in the box[this is what I call dotcom, from rightback to the middle to the box in a trice] and his left footer doesn't get the necessary tilt and it's a narrow miss. Quincy on their left wing touch line25metres out, he stylishly shuffles past two Aussies, pulling the ball back to root the two of them and a fast skate forward, 2 dead, gives it to Kojo, and flows on calling for the return which Kojo promptly gives, he traverses the 'D' sees Gyan to his right flicks it to him and darts into the box expecting Gyan to flow it fast the way a Schneider would do straight up from bed, but not Asamoah, Quincy you can't come and take over the game like you are King you just came on and you want to upstage us old dons, then you see that Gyan isn't sophisticated to the Quincy levels or else it would have been a pleasure and previledge to be involved in such Kaka like assists and the Utopians are fuming. Gyan don't you know Black Stars is a Kings team and then a next ball to Kojo Asamoah slightly left of the 'D' and Quincy is in the two touch trigger position where a pass to him would need a touch to bear down on the 'keeper and a next touch to whisk it past his legs and Kojo had other unsophisticated ideas and Quincy threw his arms up in despair and boy, weren't we fuming , 'our small curry goat too, you dey commot from our mouth, oh? Then that lovely dribble and that super left footer which Quincy drilled the Aussie 'keeper with which was omitted from the metro tv updates because their sports crew namely Nana Agyemang misled everyone by saying he doesn't know what Quincy is doing in the team, come and see me wishing to see that picturesque left footer and it was not deemed fit to be an 'highlight' as it was edited off the subsequent reels and can you imagine Nana Agyemang and Chris Opoku analyzing the Ghana \Latvia match without calling the name Quincy Owusu Abeyie when the man had scored and Opoku even said if the 'keeper hadn't made a mistake we wouldn't even have scored, whaaat, Quincy had just a minute prior blasted a double goalpost over the bar shot and using that to get the feel of the ball astounded the 'keeper who didn't know there was poison in it and when it's a goal you can't even mention the youth's beautiful name 'Quincy Owusu Abeyie.' You know I can talk till tomorrow morning but I really got to run . JAH bless and keep you if you have not doubted a word I 've said, are you not Ghanaians? Next week I'll show you how JAH vexed comprehensively.Peace!!!To be continued.