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Not Over Yet

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

Two weeks ago, Chelsea was cruising and with the comprehensive defeat of Arsenal at the Emirates, not a few pundits declared that they are the Champions Elect of the Premiership. However, football is a very unpredictable game and the Blues have dropped 5 points in their next two games after that exploit. They were beaten [...]

Stubbornness: Wenger’s Albatross!

Friday, December 4th, 2009

In 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 [...]

Threatened Hegemony!

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

With 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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Bunley, a [...]

It’s On Again!

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

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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 months [...]

Le Prof Has Started Again!

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Having 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 [...]

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 [...]

The Final!

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

After nine months of rigorous exertions on the field of play and more than a hundred matches, we are down to the finals of the 2009 UEFA Champions League. The date, May 27, 2009 will go down in history as either the day that Manchester United won their fourth European cup or the day that [...]

SAF and Manchester United!

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

‘I want to knock them off their perch’! That was Sir Alex Ferguson’s (SAF for short) target when he was appointed as Manchester United manager 22 years ago and he was referring to Liverpool’s enviable position as England’s most successful football club.
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As ambitious and ridiculous as that statement was all those years ago, the [...]

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 [...]

A Spectacle Like No Other!

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

I’ve seen matches both live and on television but ‘am glad I watched the Chelsea VS Liverpool second leg encounter at the Bridge today! What a cracker and outstanding advertisement for our beloved sport.
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Could it have been better orchestrated? I don’t think so! Even a Nollywood blockbuster couldn’t have been better conceived; yes, such was [...]

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