For­mer Man­ches­ter Unit­ed for­ward and So­ca War­riors cap­tain Dwight Yorke, this year com­plet­ed his Eng­lish Coach­ing "B" badge. How­ev­er, the for­mer T&T cap­tain says he's not sure if he wants to take an­oth­er three-year coach­ing course that would make him el­i­gi­ble for a head coach po­si­tion in the Eng­lish Cham­pi­onship, if it is that a fair chance is not go­ing to be giv­en. Yorke, now a foot­ball pun­dit for Sky TV, speak­ing a few weeks ago said when a chance comes, it has to be tak­en and he's been known for do­ing that quite a few times in his ca­reer. "I'm not go­ing to do three more years to get qual­i­fi­ca­tions and no one gives you an op­por­tu­ni­ty," Yorke said last week. It is no se­cret that there are sel­dom black head coach­es in the Eng­lish top flight or Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion. He said if he does re­turn to the game in Eng­land as a coach, his style would def­i­nite­ly not be based on that of Roy Keane, the man he played un­der at Sun­der­land.

Yorke, who could be in the run­ning to coach the T&T team as spec­u­la­tion con­tin­ues over the fu­ture of cur­rent coach and his close friend Rus­sell Lat­apy al­so served as an as­sis­tant coach for the lat­ter part of his fi­nal sea­son there. "The one thing when you be­come a man­ag­er is you've got to be able to deal with your play­ers. In­di­vid­u­als are dif­fer­ent. Roy had been for­tu­nate enough to play for Man­ches­ter Unit­ed, at the very best of the best for 14 years. So he doesn't see out­side that. I'm not say­ing he has to go around putting his arm round play­ers every two min­utes but he has to learn that in­di­vid­u­als do need that from time to time," Yorke said. "That for me was the dis­ap­point­ing thing with Roy. I was there as a se­nior play­er and I'd tell him he could do things slight­ly dif­fer­ent. As a man­ag­er you've got to make tough calls but I was try­ing to help him and say 'you need to deal with this sit­u­a­tion a lit­tle bit bet­ter'. My ex­pe­ri­ence of be­ing in the game for 23 years as a pro is that you've got to be able to deal with peo­ple. I don't think Roy is a peo­ple per­son."

Yorke added that he is a one op­por­tu­ni­ty guy and would hope that as­pir­ing stars grab their chances at first hand. "I'm a one-op­por­tu­ni­ty kind of guy," is how he puts it. "I did it in foot­ball and in my life. I have one op­por­tu­ni­ty and I ei­ther do it or not and then I walk away. I firm­ly be­lieve in that." "I've been very lucky and blessed. Hand on heart, I made mis­takes. I was a very easy-go­ing free spir­it, a very laid-back West In­di­an type of bloke. If I could turn the clock back, I could have done things bet­ter but who wouldn't? My ad­vice is to en­joy the mo­ment be­cause it doesn't last, it goes away from you so quick­ly. I re­alise that now, be­ing out of the game, but I'm hap­py and I have no re­grets. If you ask me if I'd do the same thing again I prob­a­bly would be­cause tru­ly I was hap­py and that's why my foot­ball was what it was. I've tried to change, two or three months sit­ting at home, and to be hon­est it's not me."