There is no way any side can be called a great team without winning games against top oppositions. Greatness is indeed a function of the wins in top contests. Barcelona, apart from leading the league table in Spain is considered the better team due to its convincing defeat of Real Madrid, its greatest rival. Similarly, [...]

Our Super Falcons did it again! It was so heartwarming to see Falcons defeat Equatorial Guinea who had put the only blemish on their African records when they ousted them at the semifinal stage of the AWC two years ago. A lot of people criticized the Super Falcons then for what they termed arrogance and [...]

After Newcastle defeated Arsenal by a lone goal at the Emirates, Wenger went on and on about how they did all the play, hit the post twice and tested the keeper severally. What he failed to say was that they lost the second match at the Emirates to a newly promoted team. West Brom took [...]

Is this going to be Arsenal’s season in the EPL? Will they be able to finally win another championship and shame many of us that are disillusioned with Wenger’s experiment with youth at the Emirates? Could this be the season that Emirates would be decorated with the Holy Grail of European club football; the European [...]

Most of the (if not all) supporters of Arsenal know that the major problem with the team in recent times is a feeble defense that has as goaltender an average athlete named Manuel Almunia. Couple this with the presence of funny characters like Mikel Silvestre, Philippe Senderos and permanently crocked Johan Jourou, it’s never going [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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!   [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]