Warner, it would appear, thought he was standing on a street corner in St. James with a beer bottle in his hand and forgot he was really a FIFA executive representing the world governing body of football.

So, thinking he was outside Smokey and Bunty, he demonstrated the kind of hooliganism usually associated with schoolyard bullies and “gallery he-self” in front of the British news crew.

Wow!

Writer Andrew Jennings sure suckered that guy.

Jennings is the author of Foul!, a book written about FIFA corruption and scandals involving vote-rigging and ticket scams, and can you guess who is going to feature prominently in the upcoming BBC documentary?

But, there’s not been one word of condemnation from MATT about Warner’s primitive behaviour at the Airport, nor has there been a word from any quarter against his hypocritical slur about Jennings’ colour during a political meeting of the United National Congress (UNC) in Rio Claro, as if Warner really has any problem with “White” seeing most of the FIFA posse he hangs with look just like the British football writer.

I guess that sort of buffoonery is okay in MATT’s eyes and Warner’s thinking.

What about the police?

Surely, Warner must have broken some law … assault and battery, at the very least, or perhaps, inciting racial hatred!

Well if that isn’t against the law in Trinidad and Tobago, surely it is a law in the United States or the United Kingdom, so we may yet see the American Attorney General executing a federal warrant here, or maybe, when the FIFA vice-president arrives in England the next time, a few constables may be waiting for him at Heathrow Airport to drag him in irons before the nearest magistrate for his stupidity.

Sports fans, FIFA is waving the big stick at clubs if their fans show racial intolerance to Black players, and Europe and the UK and trying to deal firmly with fans that are caught hurling racist taunts at Black players.

Don’t you remember TnT’s own national football captain, Dwight Yorke, was taunted by some Brit football fans during a Premiership match when he played with Blackburn Rovers and the offenders were arrested and prosecuted for their folly.

West Ham United’s Black goalkeeper, Shaka Hislop, is also one of the pioneers of the Give Racism the Red Card lobby in England, so the football world is ultra-sensitive to the racism issue and here we have in our midst a Black FIFA vice-president who takes offence to the colour of Jennings’ skin.

And the football “statesman” does it publicly in front of a partisan audience in Rio Claro last week.

It is a real pity that it took Jennings to write Foul!, and the BBC to be producing a documentary on the “exploits” of the Sepp Blatter administration.

With Warner being a homegrown product, the local media, should have had the first shot at producing such a documentary, but producers with independent thinking in this country are starving because the local media is controlled by a business elite, and their attitude, in the most part, is to keep out of anything remotely controversial.

I have to give TV6 and the Express points, though, for belatedly coming to their senses and dealing with Warner the way he is supposed to be treated and for having the testicular fortitude to stick with it.

Indeed, the local television station can make money from broadcasting the World Cup next month, and still “kick” Warner when he deserves it, and does he deserve it.

For too long, this country has had to tolerate media indifference to critical national issues, and amid this scenario, Warner brazenly milked national football and remade himself a multi-millionaire, moving from a tiny enclave of an office in St. James to a palatial estate in Macoya, with few having the temerity to challenge what was happening right under our very noses.

For example, Warner not only sold the TTFF’s TV rights and took the earnings as his, he even tried to sell the broadcast rights of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Association for a World Cup qualifying match against Mexico a few years ago.

Through it all, the local media was comfortably numb.

It was much easier to accept a book deal here and an airline ticket to a football seminar there, or to sell out any hint of decency or rationale for a job with CONCACAF and now, lo and behold, I notice even the most vocal of his apologists, the most belligerent of the local media are lining up for their prized World Cup trips to Germany.

I, of course, can’t afford to purchase a German beer for the World Cup finals, far less take a boat ride out on the Rhine.

The irony of all this is that Warner wants to be a national icon, someone people can look up to and respect, he is looking for a national award for his contribution and service to football -- I suppose -- but on TV6 last week, the population, including our young impressionable children, saw the FIFA boss display his true colours.

The question is: how does the punk with a 9mm in his hip seeing such hooliganism on a national television station interpret Warner’s style of dispute resolution?

It’s no wonder we have children killing children for nothing in this land of Jumpers and Wavers.