What is it they say again about heads that wear crowns?
Dave Cameron and David John-Williams will need no prompting to reply: “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.â€
Cameron, now into his second term as the boss of West Indies cricket, has had an almost unending stream of challenges to confront since replacing Julien Hunte in March, 2013.
Some have been caused by his own actions, for instance, the just-ended standoff with Darren Bravo. That had its genesis in erroneous comments by Cameron about the grade of contracts previously issued to the player. At other times, he has worsened rather than quelled conflict, like in 2014 when the One-Day team withdrew from the tour of India over a contracts issue that was initially between the players and their association.
So much trouble has flowed from the mishandling of that situation, that it is not stretching the point to say that the absence of the most established West Indies players from One-Day and even Test duty over the last four years can be traced back to the attitude Cameron and his Cricket West Indies colleagues adopted to the “rebels†since then.
On the other hand, John-Williams, the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association president, has inherited much of the mess he is now dealing with. Most of it is financial. But he too has been guilty of mis-steps, namely the hiring of Tom Saintfiet to coach the national team, an appointment that lasted less than two months before the Belgian walked out.
Cameron, however, could be excused for sensing that he may be turning a corner now.
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