As the Super Eagles line up against a very disinterested Malagasy tomorrow, I can’t but help declare that anything short of a crushing defeat would do! Some of my friends accuse me of being too accommodating of our national team coach, Samson Yebowei Siasia and I would be the first to admit that maybe, just [...]

Over the last two months, a major make over of this blog preoccupied my mind. I could not therefore put down any posts as the case may be. And I would be the first to admit the fact that there are so many things to write about. From the Flying Eagles showing in Columbia to [...]

Many years ago, players  dream of playing for Arsenal and Arsene Wenger. From the likes of Patrick Viera to Mac Overmars to Emmanuel Petit, Robert Pires, Nelson Vivas, Giles Grilmadi, Sol Campbell and notably, Thiery Henry. Wenger brought them in from all over Europe and moulded them into a team to watch. They were fluent [...]

Manchester United, Barcelona and Real Madrid won at least a trophy last time out. They are however not resting on their oars as it were having stepped out early in to the transfer market picking up players or looking to do it with all sense of seriousness. If there’s any football club in the world [...]

A great encounter awaits football fans tomorrow and it’s coming up at nowhere else but at the new Wembley stadium in the UK. When one looks back at the kind of history behind the host of this year’s UEFA champions league final, it would definitely be pardonable if a conclusion of a ‘fitting’ end to [...]

The last few months have been quite encouraging as far as Nigerian football is concerned. Many fans have long concluded that the golden years of the sport are gone forever due to the poor showings of our teams (particularly the Super Eagle) in various football competitions in the last 17 years. It has been one [...]

This effectively represents my longest hiatus in writing, as I could just not bring myself to put something down since the last post I put up being the first part of this subject matter. Since then, Arsenal, the club on which the post was premised has consistently continued to put in mediocre performances week-in, week-out. [...]

In several situations under Wenger, Arsenal had connived within themselves to throw up some funny results that would make even the proponents of the Guinness Book of Records green with envy.  The last in the long list of these installments is the match against Newcastle at St. James Park last Saturday. The last time I [...]

Barcelona FC under Pep Guardiola is gradually turning into the best team of all times. And this statement is not far-fetched if one considers the number of impressive wins the team had put together in the last five months not forgetting the total annihilation of the main La Liga rivals Real Madrid. The interesting thing [...]

Throughout Europe, only the EPL refuses to observe the winter break. Therefore, during the festivity period, matches are played on December 26th and January 2nd. This busy and hectic period, some have argued, had cost England in the past in FIFA competitions as the players are never fresh and thus were unable to reach the [...]