When I did my post previewing the match between Nigeria and Tunisia last week, little did I know that what would eventually play out would leave sour taste in the mouths of millions of Nigerians. We were close to sitting atop our group until our defenders connived to gift the Tunisians a most unwarranted equalizer [...]

  We can set a marker of our intention to be in South Africa next year or stay back to watch the event on television by whatever happens tomorrow in Abuja when we face the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia in an absolutely critical world cup qualifier. The Tunisians are top of the group with seven [...]

  It starts again this weekend and particularly for the fans of the Premiership; adrenalin starts pumping all over again. Can we ever get enough of it? I mean football, European leagues specifically has taken a new dimension within the comity of lovers of the game. As a matter of fact, the less than three [...]

Saturday, June 20, 2009 is going to be a very important day for Nigeria in sporting terms! Our senior national team, the Super Eagles would lock ‘wings’ with their Tunisian counterparts known as the Carthage Eagles in a very vital South Africa 2010 world cup qualifier.   As things stands currently, the Tunisians are leading [...]

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.   I couldn’t believe that I wrote some [...]

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 [...]

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?   The last [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]