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One-Year Ago!

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

It seems just like yesterday when I decided to put my passion for and knowledge about our game football on the web and thereby birthed this site. Within this period, 49 posts were written, hundreds of thousands of visits were recorded and thousands of comments came in.
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I couldn’t believe that I wrote some of [...]

Finally!

Monday, June 1st, 2009

And so it came to pass that Barcelona are the European Champions! This represents the third time in the history of the club to be so crowned. It was an anticlimax of a final! It was also one of the most one-sided finals of all times; it could have been tops save for the 4-0 [...]

Post Mortem: Champions League Semi-Final

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

At the risk of been seeing as gloating, I was absolutely correct on my takes for the UEFA Champions League finals. So, Manchester United is locking horns against Barcelona in the finals of the most prestigious football club competition in the world. Who could have written such a great script as this?
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The last time [...]

Who Goes to the Finals?

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

The last round served up some scintillating matches and absolutely separated the men from the boys as we usually say. The titanic encounter between Liverpool and Chelsea will remain etched in the memories of football fans for a long time to come. The one sided encounters between Barcelona and Bayern Munich was a sore embarrassment [...]

Football: Nothing Like it!

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

When I did a piece on the last minute defeat suffered by Hull City against Aston Villa some months back, little did I know that the same thing is going to replay itself today. And true to the famed karmic law, Villa also suffered a last minute defeat to Manchester United in a game they [...]

What is this?

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

A couple of weeks back, I wrote on our upcoming match against the Mozambicans and I titled it ‘No Excuse’. I made reference to the point that the players have a big role to play in deciding whether Nigeria will be at SA 2010 or not. I specifically appealed to their sense of patriotism and [...]

Here We go Again.

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

When the first knockout round draw was made, I tried to make an informed guess (in football we call it analysis or preview) of what is likely to be the outcome of that round. At the end of the day, I got seven right out of the results. I even predicted the outcome of the [...]

No Excuse!

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

That the Super Eagles got 100% result in the first round qualifying matches for the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa is no longer news. However, it was by far the most outstanding first round qualifying result we’ve had as a Nation. During the matches, we displayed some good football and showed team cohesion that [...]

Nigeria and Black News!

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Within three weeks, more than twenty footballers lost their lives from unfortunate but preventable accidents! Accidents that have become almost a daily occurrence on our murderous roads and there seems to be no hope in sight to curb the unwelcome malady. Even the devil will cringe at the sight of some of the aberrations we [...]

Arsenal, Arsene and Arshavin!

Monday, February 9th, 2009

During the EURO 2008 tournament in Austria and Switzerland last year, a small but highly skillful player emerged on the scene after a series of brilliant displays notably the defeat of the Netherlands. It wasn’t as if he was a nobody; after all, he was very instrumental in helping Zenit St Petersburg qualify for Champions [...]

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