Rum incentive offered to Trinidadian footballers

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Rum incentive offered to Trinidadian footballers

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Trinidad and Tobago's 23 footballers and their Dutch coach, Leo Beenhakker, have each been promised a barrel of specially aged rum if they win their World Cup match against England.

Nigel Bissoon, marketing manager of the Angostura group of companies, said the players were already heroes in their Caribbean country after their 0-0 draw against Sweden last week.

"But they can elevate themselves to a god-like status amongst their fans if they get one over England," Mr Bissoon said in a statement on Wednesday.

"We hope that the barrel bonus will act as an extra incentive for the players as there are few Trinidadians who would not jump at the opportunity to own a full barrel of such fine rum."

Each of the 24 barrels Angostura is offering as a prize holds 247 litres of rum.

Angostura's chief executive Lawrence Duprey says the rum would come from a batch that had been earmarked for a special occasion.

Trinidad and Tobago is the smallest country to qualify for the soccer World Cup.
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Sounds like a rum deal to me.
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maycm wrote:Sounds like a rum deal to me.
Oh, you're a barrel of laughs you!

247 litres of quality rum though - that's some going!

Come on the Trinidad!
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On the other hand.....according to Tesco, Rum has "other uses"
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maycm wrote:On the other hand.....according to Tesco, Rum has "other uses"
haha, that's a good one

"Drink a bottle of our fine rum and you'll not be able to shag, making it a highly effective contraceptive!"
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