The Gaffer
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010Angola 2010 took off to a most astonishing start as Mali came back from four goals down to take a point from the hosts. It would go down as one of the most memorable opening matches of any football tournament in the world. Reminiscent of the Golden Eaglets feat against their German opponents in the [...]
Uncouth Mouth!
Monday, December 28th, 2009The list of the Super Eagles players for the CAN 2010 in Angola was released last week to the nation by the coach and the NFF. The 32 man list drew a lot of comments from fans across the country and as to be expected, various questions were raised as to the fitness and the [...]
Stubbornness: Wenger’s Albatross!
Friday, December 4th, 2009In all my years of watching football, I have never seen a manger so respected, adored and infinitely excusable as Arsene Wenger. He enjoys unparalleled confidence from his board and majority of fans as well. It’s a standard and acceptable quote at the Emirates that ‘Arsene Knows’. Such is the influence of the man that [...]
Chestnut Out of Fire!
Saturday, November 28th, 2009I have to apologize to you, my readers for going AWOL on this blog for the past two weeks. I guess I had too much to do and the euphoria of our eventual qualification surely got the better of me. But not to worry, now that we‘ve qualified, I will be doing a lot towards [...]
Siasia: What’s Happening?
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009If a question on which coach has the most pedigree and respect among teeming football fans in the country is posed, the answer is likely to be Samson Yebowei Siasia. There is ample reason for this. In the last four years, the former Super Eagles attacker has been the most consistent gaffer around. His tinkering [...]
This and That!
Sunday, September 20th, 2009The unfortunate result obtained by our drawn match with the Tunisians has thrown up a lot of other issues that borders on the competence of coach Shuaibu to steer us to the world cup in South Africa ab initio. We have travelled this path before and a sense of déjà vu is palpable in the [...]
Unbelievable Foolishness!
Sunday, September 13th, 2009When 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 [...]
Threatened Hegemony!
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009With a lot of investment in quality players the duo of Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspurs have not dropped any point in the early matches of the current season of the English Premiership. The two clubs have shown right from the start that they mean business. They hit the ground running as it were!
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Le Prof Has Started Again!
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009Having won the largely uncompetitive Emirates Cup on home ground, Arsene Wenger declared that he’s committed to looking within his squad for a savior and not outside it. He made this remark when reporters asked him whether players are still coming in having signed only Thomas Vermeleen from Ajax and selling Adebayor and Kolo Toure [...]
Threading Carefully!
Thursday, June 4th, 2009Â
After the lackluster performance of the Super Eagles in Mozambique the last time, a lot of football fans in the country expressed their anger and disappointment over what most called lack of commitment from the players. Even the coach, Ahmodu Shuaibu uncharacteristically lambasted openly some of the players and declared in the process that he’s [...]