Dale Carnegie's book 'How to make friends and influence people' has got competition from unlikely quarters - Ghana's Black Stars participation at the World Cup in Brazil.

Every game, every shot, every shout, every fight, every cash played a part in putting out a great new book: How to lose matches and make money. 

Authored by 23 players, the GFA, with a special pull-out on Sulley Muntari and KP Boateng's mutiny and with a forward written by Deputy Minster of Youth and Sports - Joseph Yamin. And guess who wrote the acknowledgment?  - Yes - President John Mahama.

Don't know about you but, what we watched yesterday in Brazil was based on a 1912 real life tragedy made into a movie called the 'Titanic'.

When you watch the movie titanic, you really don't know who to blame because everybody is to be blamed. Was it that boastful and untempered declaration that nobody could sink the ship, the ice-berg that was seen too late, the callous determination to reserve the boats and life-jackets for the rich or the captain's sleep on the job.

The litany of 'mistakes' in Titanic was countless only ended with the life of two naive but passionate lovers.

And then there is this lingering question - was the titanic cursed?

Yesterday, I watch the titanic all over again. No; not the one on  North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912.  Naaa; I watched the one in Brazil.

Ghana's ship, carrying fans, players,'mis'management team, the tweeting, facebooking President and ordinary us - all sunk. Like that proud aristocrat on the titanic who wanted to buy his way out, not even money could save our Black Stars' ship.

It was an orgy of scandals. Like mixfruit. Like a buffet, the scandalous incidents were too many. You can't jump to blame Muntari for indiscipline because before you get there, you have the alarming loss of concentration during the U.S game. And even  before that, you have to fault Kwasi Appiah's outburst about benching his seniors for last.

And there is the untold stories of sex in the camp that disrupted player discipline - stay tuned.

And surely, most surely, the chartered flight of 3million dollars, Muntari's mutiny, KP Boateng's bad mouth unite compelling case - was the Black Stars Brazil campaign ill-fated?

And then you can't forget Joseph Yamin's thoughtless 'yawn' about sending NDC supporters to Brazil. He chipped away national support. Kwasi Appiah chipped away some tactical support, the player indiscipline chipped away morale support, the money chipped away motivational support and the president's orgy-like payment of $3m dollars chipped away international support.

What could be left? No chips to chip away.

See - If you paid me $100,000 before I came to work. You are damn right -I won't think about the work. I will think about what to do, where to go and where to hide the money.

And so that's why Ghana defender John Boye showed the clueless Portuguese how to score. Supersports 3 panelists summed up our misery. The team had no shape. No energy. No passing ability. Our last match was the most expensive match, but it was our most reckless performance.

There is something wrong with those spoilt set of elite players. Nobody benefits really from their success. Everybody gets hurt from their failures. But while our love motivates our support, anything but love motivates their game.

Maybe that's why Kwasi Appiah reportedly cried. Here is a man who never needed appearance fees when he laced his boots for Ghana.  Never played abroad. Here is the second least paid coach at the World Cup leading Africa's most promising hope.

Kwasi Appiah - too simple to believe, humble to a fault, this man couldn't believe that money and mutiny could end this greatest chance to shine.

The man who placed no value on money was leading a team that placed all their values on dollars.

The President did his best to support the stars. Taking time to write about them, to call them and to 'cash' them up. Good intentions until wrong execution via a chartered flight to Brazil to send $100,000 per player doomed his goodwill.

And who announced the transfer? You are right - Joseph Yamin's thoughtless yawn again.

He is one person singularly responsible for the public relations disaster in Brazil.

Government banned everybody from carrying $10,000. And government carried an orgy of dollars abroad - ridiculing the Bank of Ghana directive.

This World Cup was the best diversionary tactics any government under fire would covert. Keep them there as long as they can be there.

And in between -increase utilities 48 hours before their last group stage game.

So Ghana has crashed out. Cristiano Ronaldo had only scored two World Cup goals before he finished us off with his third.

In 2006 against Iran, it was a penalty kick. In 2010 against North Korea, it was the sixth goal in a 7-0 win for Portugal.

Just like that ship maker declared "Not even God can sink this ship", the GFA declared "We are going for the semi-finals".

The sailor standing on the higher deck lost a moment vision of the iceberg, our defense lost concentration in the USA.

Despite a brave fight by Dicaprio to protect his love, the Black Stars fought to fend off the Germans.

A chance of survival was created, until money, ego, and a stinking class system on the ship led to a revolt against the upper class. Although life jackets and boats were available, they kept it for a few. Although the dollars were available, they kept it for the last minute. A player revolt for higher appearance fees set the camp on fire - and not even money could keep the team float.
 

To put our loss into perspective, Obama will not mention the progress of the U.S team in his State of the Nations address despite this being the first time they have qualified to round 16.

But in Ghana, Presidents have announced Black Stars progress as a key indicator of national development.

And just as Ghanaians fumed over our disgraceful exit, another indicator of national development exerted itself - the lights went out.