It would seriously be called into questioning anytime Arsene Wenger and by implication Arsenal lay claims to being the masters of entertaining and awe inspiring football. Last Wednesdays match against Barcelona showed clearly that the Catalans are indeed the king of exciting and out of this world football. Looking at the statistics at the end [...]

The outcomes of the first knockout round of the UEFA champions league was concluded today and the biggest casualty (by far) is the Los Merengues, Real Madrid. After spending $250 million, they failed to again reach the quarterfinals of the much coveted competition. To them, the season is already a massive failure due to this [...]

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 [...]

And so Ghana, our beloved West African neighbor and brothers are the FIFA Under 20 champions and I cannot but rejoice over what has eluded the whole of Africa for 32 years. The manner of the victory is also very interesting as again, like in the past, the referee did his best to do us [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

At the risk of been seeing as gloating, I was absolutely correct on my takes for the UEFA Champions League finals. So, Manchester United is locking horns against Barcelona in the finals of the most prestigious football club competition in the world. Who could have written such a great script as this?   The last [...]

When I did a piece on the last minute defeat suffered by Hull City against Aston Villa some months back, little did I know that the same thing is going to replay itself today. And true to the famed karmic law, Villa also suffered a last minute defeat to Manchester United in a game they [...]

A couple of weeks back, I wrote on our upcoming match against the Mozambicans and I titled it ‘No Excuse’. I made reference to the point that the players have a big role to play in deciding whether Nigeria will be at SA 2010 or not. I specifically appealed to their sense of patriotism and [...]

When the first knockout round draw was made, I tried to make an informed guess (in football we call it analysis or preview) of what is likely to be the outcome of that round. At the end of the day, I got seven right out of the results. I even predicted the outcome of the [...]