Romario has been remarkable and I was delighted he could cap a season of more than 70 goals for club and country in such a manner. In your last mailbag you state that the West Indies problems goes deeper than whether or not Brian Lara makes runs. Can you elaborate on that for me because I've been saying the same thing for the past couple of years and would really like your input and hopefully the West Indies selectors will read and take head. There was once a conveyor belt of fast bowling talent in the West Indies. That has stopped producing.
Football is bigger now than it used to be.
Maybe kids who used to play cricket on the beaches imagining they could become the next Sir Gary Sobers or Viv Richards now prefer to think of themselves as the next Yorke or Deon Burton. The last great West Indies all-rounder was Sobers. Phil, I come from a country where soccer leads ticket sales. I d like to listen to your professional opinion since I'm Just a soccer fan and really can't give a fair opinion about this. Argentina Well, my fair opinion is that if you forced me to predict a World Cup winner for 2002 right now I would have trouble looking beyond Argentina and Brazil.