The way Arsenal wobbled and fumbled (remember the Fanny Amun Flying Eagles?) against Fulham, Leeds and Swansea in the last three games showed clearly that the team is just not good enough. This may sound a bit too harsh but if truth be told; this team won’t win anything again this year. And this would [...]

As the Nations Cup gets underway in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, the question remains ‘where to Nigeria’? The fact that we are not going to be at the tournament is no longer the issue but the reality of the poor performances of our players in the various leagues scattered all over Europe is the main [...]

For the first time in the long history of the Premiership, three established ‘big’ teams have struggled to cope with the emergence of the new ‘rich boys’ Manchester City. In a film like manner, Manchester City decimated Manchester United, Manchester United annihilated Arsenal at the beginning of the season, Arsenal ‘killed off’ Chelsea at the [...]

What a year it has been in the beautiful game! Who would have thought at the beginning of this year that Nigeria would be virtually ‘extinguished’ in all football competitions without making any major impact? It all started with the failure of the Super Eagles to qualify for the Nations Cup. In quick succession, our [...]

The new European season is gradually picking up with the commencement of the two remaining ‘super leagues’ in Spain and Italy. In England, the EPL is already four games gone and not a few dramas had occurred already. What with the incredible start up of the Manchester sides-four games won in a row with some [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Arsenal against the tide of expectations (including mine) comprehensively defeated Chelsea at the Emirates and has since gone on to put in respectable performances against Birmingham City, Wigan Athletic and Manchester City. Had it not been for hard luck and poor defense, they could have come out with nine points in their last three matches [...]