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Damidave1124:
Maybe they want to start lieing to the deaf and dumb too. Me no trust this Lie Muhammed at all

Niggeer try and be reasonably na. Being deaf and mute isn't being dumb.

HeyCorleone:
But if you cook something, is it then raw? Lmao.

Eating weed RAW won’t make you high. Please read to understand. Thanks.

You right mate, I was stunned when I read it. And I just surmised.

The use of everyone is figurative nau.

HeyCorleone:
You people lie a lot on this app and for what?

Eating weed is like eating any other vegetable. Nothing would happen to you. Eat a bag of weed and you’d be fine. Weed needs heat to work. Without heat it’s just leaves.

I don’t know why you people constantly tell that lie about eating weed and having a bad time.

Niggeer. You aint right here. The feeling of eating weed is different...

Try cooking the whole rap with a noodle and see.

The use of everyone is figurative nau.

nateDZA:
waLai, na so I enter terminus market for Jos some weeks back dey find Redmi note 9Pro I no see, na so so green colored packaged Phones full everywhere And You know What I mean, the only options I was left with was Redmi Note 8(2021) 4/64 & Redmi 9T 4/128, though few stocks of Note 10Pro & 11Pro were there but was way abOve my budget___Well, I picked 9T cause I needed more ROM, 6000mah & Snapdrag ChipSet

How much did they sold it to you at Hamaz?

All this nonsense is just to scared away potential thieves.

This brought some memories years back.

#hungerbad!

Op. It's people like you that usually burden your heart with with things you might to purge out once and for all.
Just like someone said suffering and smiling.

virginprincess:
Oga, pls summarize this thing, you don't expect me to read such long epistle

SMH!

I Wonder whatbyoire doing in this forum?

12odd

5CMKSL9

Joebayo217:
Nice one we need to offload deadwood players same with coach, manager and staff especially dat ole and him head coach

Just when I thought you would mention Newcastle as your new team

Peacesupreme21:
share today's game abeg

Merrybeet

Transaction id#341635459

Over 15hrs bet9ja are yet to void this game.

Why nau?

How about those his glamorous pregnant ladies.

Again, his he married?, Cos all those advice ought to come form experience.

E should shut up there. Common Club Bruge they couldn't win and crashed my money at it.

Am sure that Sheriff Terisspor would give the a run for their expensive jokers.

“We were at home one day in Bilbao watching the television when something came on – I can’t remember exactly what – and I asked her again. My mum turned it off and said: ‘OK. The moment’s come for me to tell you. Sit down, I think you’re ready to hear the story of papa and me now. When she told me I was left cold. Hearing that leaves a deep impression. Wow. It’s like something in a film and my parents lived it.”

Iñaki Williams stops and takes a breath. He was 20 that day, already playing for Athletic Club. Pushed into the public eye, he had been asked his story but couldn’t tell it properly because he didn’t know. Parts had been written wrong, but he didn’t really know that either. He too had asked, desperate to find out exactly where he was from. “It ate away at me,” he says. Until, at last, Maria told him.

She told him how they had left Ghana and crossed the Sahara without food or water, about those who didn’t make it and how that could have been them. How they hid things the only place they could. How, pregnant with him, she climbed the fence into Melilla, Spain’s north African enclave. And how she and Felix were arrested, a lawyer whose name he still doesn’t know and, to his regret, never will providing a lifeline, a way of reaching the city where he was born. His place, where he has made history.

Last Friday night, 28 years on, Iñaki Williams played his 203rd consecutive league game, a record and the culmination of a journey that began before he was born. “Hearing my parents’ story makes you want to fight even harder to give back everything they sacrificed for us. I couldn’t ever repay them – they risked their lives – but the life I try to give them is the one they dreamed of giving us. And, in some way, we can say: ‘We’ve done it.’

Iñaki Williams (right) and Raúl García celebrate Athletic’s goal against Alavés in La Liga this month.
Iñaki Williams (right) and Raúl García celebrate Athletic’s goal against Alavés in La Liga this month. Photograph: Ricardo Larreina/Shutterstock
“You’d watch the news and see boats arriving from Africa, people climbing the fence [into Melilla] and I realised I didn’t really know how we got to Spain. It’s something I always asked but my mum avoided it because I was just a kid. And maybe she then thought if she’d told me when I started at Athletic at 18 it would have been a weight on my back. I knew my life was different to my friends’ and I could imagine, but when you hear the details …

“Details like: I didn’t know they had crossed the desert by foot. I knew my dad had problems with the soles of his feet but not that it was because he had walked barefooted across the Sahara sand at 40, 50 degrees.

“They did part in a truck, one of those with the open back, 40 people packed in, then walked days,” Williams continues. “People fell, left along the way, people they buried. It’s dangerous: there are thieves waiting, rapes, suffering. Some are tricked into it. Traffickers get paid and then halfway say: ‘The journey ends here.’ Chuck you out, leave you with nothing: no water, no food. Kids, old people, women. People go not knowing what’s ahead, if they’ll make it. My mum said: ‘If I knew, I would have stayed.’ She was pregnant with me but didn’t know.

“They reached Melilla, climbed the fence and the civil guard detained them. They didn’t have papers and came as migrants, so you get sent back. When they were in jail a lawyer from [the Catholic aid organisation] Caritas who spoke English said: ‘The only thing you can try is tell them you’re from a country at war.’ They tore up their Ghanaian papers and said they were from Liberia to apply for political asylum. Thanks to him, we arrived in Bilbao.”

Migrants sit on top of a fence as they attempt to reach Melilla, the Spanish enclave on the north African coast, in October 2014.
Migrants sit on top of a fence as they attempt to reach Melilla, the Spanish enclave on the north African coast, in October 2014. Photograph: Francisco G Guerrero/EPA
Williams smiles. Bilbao, of all places. “Destiny,” he calls it. Born there, the doors opened to Athletic with their Basque-only policy. His club. “My friends and I talk about it: bloody hell, incredible. Everything happens for a reason. If I hadn’t been born in Bilbao, I could never have played for Athletic. My parents crossed the desert and were taken to the Basque country. That doesn’t feel like chance.”

Maria and Felix moved to Pamplona, 150km south-east, getting state housing in “a humble, hardworking barrio with lots of races where people made ends meet however they could”. They met Iñaki Mardones – which is where Williams got his name – a priest who became his godfather and their guardian. Clothes came from the church. There wasn’t much, but Williams insists: “I had food, something to wear, and compared to a many, many, people, I was rich. My parents’ story told me that.”

Williams’s dad worked as a shepherd, a cleaner on a building site, anything he could find which wasn’t always anything at all, later heading to London alone. “He worked in a shopping centre near Chelsea clearing tables in the food halls or as a security guard, tearing tickets at Stamford Bridge. Any job no one wanted.” Iñaki was 10 or 11. His brother Nico was two or three. Felix was gone a decade. Maria did two, three jobs at a time when there was work. Iñaki became almost a father to Nico.

Iñaki Williams as a child with his mother, Maria (centre) and his father Felix (far right). Iñaki Mardones (second right), from whom Williams got his name, is the priest who helped the family upon their arrival in Spain.
Iñaki Williams as a child with his mother, Maria (centre) and his father Felix (far right). Iñaki Mardones (second right), from whom Williams got his name, is the priest who helped the family upon their arrival in Spain. Photograph: Williams family
And of course, he became a footballer, his first memory a kid called Xabi calling him down to the street to play at four or five. For a while, he even became a referee in local leagues: at €10 a game, it was valuable to him, although he needed more. He had promised his mum he would become a professional and at 18 joined Athletic, making his debut in December 2014 aged 20. “I knew making it would fix many things,” he says. “It wasn’t just the debut itself, it was what it brought. It meant bringing my dad back from London, reuniting my family after 10 years, my little brother having the paternal figure, stability, the family we wanted so badly. I dreamed of being a footballer but also reuniting my family.”

Williams was only the second black footballer to play for Athletic, after Jonas Ramalho. He is the only black player to have scored for the club but hopefully not for long: Nico, eight years younger, has joined him in the first team. The symbolic power is huge, a role he embraces. Subjected to racist abuse that convinced him and his teammates they would walk if it happens again, he has backed demonstrations and spoken with firm eloquence, beyond the game. Charismatic, direct, funny, his message reaches people. The pride is palpable at Athletic.

“People empathise with my story, identify with the sacrifice,” he says. “My arrival opened minds. Athletic have done me a lot of good and I hope I’ve done Athletic good. Footballers often don’t speak out, but it’s good for society. If you have the power to reach people you should. Racism is a stain, an illness to be eradicated. Not talking about discrimination allows it to exist, being permissive allows it to continue.

“Society is changing: it’s more open, there’s more immigration, more diversity. When I arrived, there were very few black kids; now there are more in the youth system. Diversity, movement, brings that and we’ll see it in the national team. England and France have many black players. Adama [Traoré] is here now, it’s changing. We’re going to get more used to seeing different faces in the same national team.”

Iñaki with his brother Nico. ‘When my mum’s angry, she swears at us in Ghanian but we speak Spanish,’ he says.
Iñaki with his brother Nico. ‘When my mum’s angry, she swears at us in Ghanian but we speak Spanish,’ he says. Photograph: Williams family
Including his? the forward has played only once for Spain, a friendly against Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2016. It remains his target, approaches from Ghana turned down. “I’m grateful to where I grew and became who I am. Ghana tried to convince me, but I was born in Spain, in Bilbao. I won’t ever forget my family roots, but I feel Basque and can’t con anyone. I would be comfortable with Ghana, I’m sure, but I shouldn’t be there …”

There’s a grin. “And my mum knows how people live football there: it’s quite something, and she’d be worried about me,” he says, laughing.

“When my mum’s angry, she swears at us in Ghanaian but we speak Spanish. When my parents came, it was English but we lost that. I could have a conversation in English but it’s not fluent now. When my grandparents call, I speak to them in Twi. I admire and love Ghana, the culture, food, tradition. My parents are from Accra and I really enjoy going. But I wasn’t born or raised there, my culture’s here, and there are players for whom it would mean more. I don’t think it would be right to take the place of someone who really deserves to go and who feels Ghana 100%.”

The way that he feels Athletic, the club he supported and one that can feel almost like an unofficial national team sometimes. For whom he scored the winner in the Spanish Super Cup – only the second trophy they have won in 35 years. Williams always knew just one game for them would change everything; now there have been 304, 203 league matches in a row.

Iñaki Williams seen at the Athletic training ground. He became only the second black player to represent the club.
Iñaki Williams seen at the Athletic training ground. He became only the second black player to represent the club. Photograph: Pablo Garcia
The last time he didn’t play was 17 April 2016, when his teammate Yuri Berchiche injured his left ankle – and, yes, he has made sure Yuri knows that. Since then, five and a half years passed without Ernesto Valverde, Cuco Ziganda, Toto Berizzo, Gaizka Garitano or Marcelino García Toral leaving him out, without suspension or injury. Despite Williams being Spain’s fastest player, the explosivity usually coming at the cost of torn muscles.

“The doctors and physios say it’s incredible, that it’s impossible for there to be a case like this again, especially playing high-intensity games every three days,” he says. “Thank my parents for the genes: I don’t know what it is but there’s something inside me.

“I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t played with knocks or pain; I’ve played on medication with injections, moments the manager and the team needs you. And I had two seasons going into the final weeks with four yellows. ‘Buah, if there’s a fifth, that’s a ban.’ But I don’t protest much or kick anyone,” he admits, laughing.

“[But] it wasn’t really until the last week that it was on my mind, when there were three games in seven days to break the record: home, away, home. You’re so close, there’s a risk, you think: ‘Woah, something could happen, I could lose this.’ Until then, you don’t think of it. Destiny is written.”

History is too, especially here. Across the training pitch where Williams sits at Lezama, under the famous arch brought from the old San Mamés, are two busts: Piru Gainza and Telmo Zarra. At the stadium, there is another of Pichichi. There may be no club with the liturgy of Athletic, no club that celebrates its tradition, its community, its past, like them. Somehow breaking the record here seems even more significant, Williams part of something bigger.

Iñaki Williams is hoisted in the air by his teammates after breaking a La Liga record by playing 203 consecutive matches.
Iñaki Williams is hoisted in the air by his teammates after breaking a La Liga record by playing 203 consecutive matches. Photograph: Miguel Tona/EPA
“It’s the hostia, bloody unbelievable,” he says. “Me and my teammates dreamed of being part of Athletic. I’ve lived that dream. So many people would give anything to be where we are. Athletic is a union, a family. Together, we’re strong. To be where I am, represent what I do, is incredible. To be able to say to my mum and dad, ‘We did it’, because everything they did was for us, to represent this club, wear this shirt, and for people to feel proud that I’m part of Athletic’s history.”

Now so is Nico. “I have a history I started to write seven years ago; he has to write his own,” Williams says. “We’re living this together, I’m proud of him and he’s doing very well, progressing fast, but he still has a lot, a lot, to prove and a lot, a lot, of work ahead. Let him be, let him grow, let him earn whatever comes.”

Just so long as that’s not 204 games in a row. Iñaki Williams laughs. “Well, if someone has to take the record off me, let it be my brother.”


https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/oct/06/inaki-williams-my-parents-crossed-the-desert-barefoot-to-get-to-spain

ibrutex:
To start with , do your spouse know how much your salary is at the end of the month..

Would you tell her if their is an increment and how much is added??

Well! To me I wouldn't let her know if their is increment because I can't let someone finish the salary for me before I received , last last she will still be the one that take most share...

Maybe I acted wrongly , need your reasons.

Telling her would make her respect dor youe increase.

This is wowen psychology.

Are are exposing to us how your marriage is built on deceit.

chatinent:

Ok o.

We will come back to this later.


Okay?


Okay?


You gotta be kidding me.


On the wedding day, you were sleeping with her?

Okay?


If you cancelled the church wedding which was in 2nd October, it meant you did the court marriage two days ago with her.


I thought as much.

Remember the first day after court wedding was October 1st? And second was the wedding you said you cancelled?


The same day you cancelled the wedding? You are begging her to stay?

Not adding up anymore. Well, let's continue.


Ok?

I pray you are not up to forty yet. I just pray because there is a permanent adage waiting for you.


Okay?


30 + 10 = 40. Okay, e no go tey you reach the adage.


Eight months?
She controls you?
She shouts at you?
If you refuse, tell us the truth, she beats you blue and black.

It's okay, my brother.



Hello,
I will tell you the truth and nothing but the truth. But before then, let me recap what you told her when you met intially:

This is what you told her, and that is what she did for you.

Now back to what I was saying, I will tell you the truth and nothing but the truth. I won't lie, ibu onye iberibe. In anything you are doing in this life, try as much as possible make me and you no jam for road abeg.

Bro, what brand is this?

Youre a real niggerrrr.

seandurse:
No everyone is lucky. Some are meant to excel this way while some are born to work hard before getting it. In other words, always keep true to what you believe in but no be by staking 100 naira with 50games to win 50million tho

Brother why?

Brother why would you end this beautiful inspirational quote with a gambling related instance?

This man might be from another planet or afterlife.

This is extraordinary to be just ordinary!

WibusJaga:

E remain make Dangote come buy Arsenal.

I reject this prayer for my beloved club amen. The man go just be another hustler like kronke.

First I would advice you visit a urologist.


Am not recommending this. fam is it advicesable for some one like the OP to take Tamsolusine chloride tablet 0.4mm with any prior surgery procedures?

Theatre of absurdities awon ni ranu.

Believe this at you own parill.

The teachers wage increment Adamu promise last year is yet to be fulfill.

AbujaCitiBlog:
Sorry about your situation. Don't be a gambler be a business man. A lot of people are building houses with money from betting. Be wise. Let me see what I can do for you tomorrow.

E sure me say na una dey use everybody contribute build houses. Cut soap for your boy.

JerryJJZ:
Nigerians and savage responses.

Anyways, @OP, you need understand the simple logic to get out of this mess. If not, you will keep going and coming forever. Gambling is more spiritual than physical. The spirit of gambling is like that of pornography. They are both difficult to exclude. I have been a victim of both scenarios. My gambling was worst to the extent I derive beautiful formular and strategies to help me win. Other people use my strategy to win big but it never profited me. I studied bookies like a 3 unit course and I mastered the art of the odds. I read books and subscribed to different punting channels. I dedicated my time to it and I took it as a real business. But in the end, I kept loosing and loosing and loosing. I left countless times and vowed never to come back, na lie oooo... few months later, am back to my Bet9ja. I have to tell you this, so you can understand you are not alone, but I left the crew already.

I finally left gambling 5 years ago. And only one principle helped me "Gambling is a spiritual manipulation that bargains your destiny with the physical". To further buttress the fact that gambling is spiritual, you will see yourself imagining things you will buy, even without winning yet. You book games, even in your sleep. Your mind and attention is always in bookies. You dont bother calculating the ratio of your lost funds to your gains. Even if you do, you never have the courage to let go. You seldomly hear whispers on which games to pick. You always, as in, always and always think that your next game may be your breakthrough game, even if it never happens.

I make bold to tell you, only your strong will and determination can help you out. You must wholly conclude NEVER to engage in that activity again. When your will is strong enough, your prayer will become more effective.

Finally, in my own case, I finally concluded my case was worse because God never wanted me to continue in gambling. My wealth isnt hidden there, and that was it.

I dont know if you can relate with this. But this is my story and encounter. If your faith is strong enough, I can provide you with bet9ja log in details so you can calculate how much I burnt in this bookies, you will be shocked sir!

One of the most truest things concerning gambling I've ever read. Your case is similar to that of everyone sir.

hansomb:
Use what just happen to you as a motivation.

That's if he no forget after the next allawee enter him hand.

Na seriously therapy this one need.

Freestainworld:
When they said gamble responsibly, una no gree

That inscription only works on paper and fanciful to the eyes. The magnitude of a gamblers's brain in terms of reasoning is similar to that of a toddler when it comes to feeding his addiction.

boringdraw:
Odds - 2.40
Under 2.5 goals
Denmark » 1st Division
Nykobing - Helsingor


Odds - 2.00
BTTS (NO)
England » Premier League
Tottenham - Aston Villa



Odds -2.05
BTTS (NO)
France » Ligue 1
Lorient - Clermont

Accumulated odds - 9.84

Of to say you stick to playing the opposite of your predictions now. You for don blow.

KillAlabi2021:
Should I do yet another giveaway today



Ok,


300 each to the first 30 people to quote me

Comrade this thin no be life.

dokyOloye:
About to play this.
Any opposition/judas?

It looks good on paper as expected.

Its funny when people tell you dey forgive their offender fully, especially after significantly offending them to this magnitude.

I feel sorry for the man tho.

symbuul:
Guilty!!!

Lol. Ticket still sailing tho.