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 [...]

That Samson Siasia has been fired as coach of the Super Eagles is no longer news but the aftermath of it is what I call ‘Titanic Suit’. The gentleman is demanding a princely N1Billion through a lawsuit he filed at an Abuja High Court. Among other things, Siasia claimed that the NFF has not paid [...]

My last post was on the match against the Guineans at Abuja and I was very confident that we would win the match. I however was on the side of caution in the sense that we had messed up twice in the past when it mattered most. I recalled the incidences against Angola in Kano [...]

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 [...]

The Super Eagles friendly international against Argentina in Bangladesh was a good exercise for the boys as far as ‘am concerned. While some would question the performance of some of the players on the day, I won’t put too much into it. Having gone ahead to put two goals past Madagascans in the Nations Cup [...]

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 [...]