Cricket: Yorke shocked by Sydney sale.DWIGHT Yorke This article is about Dwight Yorke, the football player. For the black supremacist, see Dwight York. Dwight Eversley Yorke (born November 3 1971 in Canaan, Tobago) is a Trinidad and Tobago football player. He currently plays for Sunderland A.F. has revealed his "devastation" at failing to land a new contract at Sydney FC Sydney FC, founded in 2004, is an Australian football (soccer) club based in Sydney and competes in Australia's premier competition, the A-League. Sydney FC won the inaugural A-League Championship in 2005–06 by defeating the Central Coast Mariners 1-0 in the Grand Final. . Yorke, 34, was last week sold to Championship strugglers Sunderland after cash-strapped Sydney decided against offering the former Villa and Blues striker a new deal. "I sat by the phone until 5am Friday, just waiting for the call (from Sydney)," said Yorke. "Just waiting for someone from Sydney FC to say that they didn't want me to go, that they still wanted me. But that call never came. I'm absolutely gutted to say the least, I'm devastated. "The thing is, the more I think about it, even if I got a call from someone at the last minute and they said, 'Dwight, we don't want you to leave', then I think there and then that I would have stayed. "It's so sad that I've got to say goodbye." Yorke even discussed his plight with best friend and West Indies West Indies, archipelago, between North and South America, curving c.2,500 mi (4,020 km) from Florida to the coast of Venezuela and separating the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico from the Atlantic Ocean. cricketer Brian Lara Brian Charles Lara (born May 2, 1969) (nicknamed, "The Prince of Port-of-Spain" or simply "The Prince") was a peerless record-breaking cricketer, and one of all-time greats. to see if he had any words of advice. "He's (Lara) always the first person to help out in a tough situation for me, even he couldn't believe what had happened," added Yorke. "It's a crying shame how it all ended. The fact is, I was looking forward to leading Sydney and looking forward to defending the championship. I can't believe I'm leaving." Sunderland have made a poor start to the new English season but were recently boosted by the appointment of Yorke's former United team-mate Roy Keane as manager. CAPTION(S): GUTTED... Dwight Yorke. |
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