By Peter Balroop - Trinidad Express (Oct. 10)   They came in their large numbers to pay final respects to national football hero Mickey Trotman and his brother, Stephan.   Thousands of mourners assembled under canvas tents, defying pelting rain and gusting wind as they stood their ground for all of the two-and-a-half-hour long service at the Felix Farrier Recreation Park in Arima.   And as Marilyn Williams powerfully sang the hymn "How Great Thou Art", the grieving mother, Mary Trotman, agony etched on her face, looked up in supplication to heavens, tears streaming down her cheeks.   It was the defining moment of the ceremony. The caskets lay in front of the podium at the park for the service performed by Father Leo Donovan and Bishop Lionel Browne.   The ceremony alternated between tributes to the fallen brothers in song and in words.   The brothers died around 2 a.m. last week Wednesday, in a car crash on Pinto Road, along with their friend, 21-year-old Tessa Moses, who was buried on Monday morning.   Technical Director Rene Simoes and his wife Maria at the funeral service.   Younger brother, Kenyon, 20, who sustained a broken leg in the accident, was brought by ambulance for the service with a full complement of nurses. A friend, Troy Hernandez, was also critically injured.   A tinge of partisan politics entered the occasion when the acknowledgement of the presence of House Speaker Dr Rupert Griffith was greeted by loud murmurs of disapproval. In contrast, Arima MP, Pennelope Beckles, was cheered.   The brothers were buried at the Santa Rosa RC Cemetery.

Thousands attend Trotman brothers funeral, as Pinto mourns the loss of two homeboys.

SHAKA CRIES: TT and West Ham Custodian, Shaka Hislop cries as he delivers the eulogy at the funeral of Mickey and Stephan Trotman.: