₦airaland Forum

tredkiller: I'M GLAD THAT OUR GOVT DECIDED NOT TO WASTE OUR MONEY ON BROADCAST RIGHTS JUST TO WATCH A TEAM LIKE GHANA DANCING AROUND THE FIELD AS IF LOOKING FOR KENKE MOULD TO EAT. NEXT TIME EAT MORE OF YOUR KENKE BEFORE MATCHES BECAUSE YOU LOOK SO FRAGILE AND MALNOURISHED

Conquistador: Here in Accra,no one is even talking about a 3rd place match.for us we either win gold or nothing!what are we 2 do with bronze?I recall a few years ago when nigeria constantly won bronze at AFCON and started calling it GOLDEN BRONZE!!!!!LOL. Chei!

Bigo8291: Damn Nigerians really hate Ghanaians and yet they are the first to cry foul when Ghanaians talk about Nigerians. I was supporting Ghana and Nigeria finals but since Ghana did not make it I decided to support Nigeria but now I want burkina to bleep Nigeria. Go burkina

pazienza: Kuffour,park one side. Mali is going to use you lots for shooting practice. Even the ghana woman at TV3 admitted that ghana didn't deserve to be in the semis,you lots practically robbed cape verde (a better team),in broad day light.

Ghana has no team, and played crappy football throughout the tournament. Hope you enjoyed your recent push into relevance in african football elite nations,'cause it has just come to an end,from now onwards,it's down down for the 'kuffour nation'. *grins*

Akpu.Nku:
Ok CAF and REF wanted Ghana to be in the final by all means and that is why they awarded undeserved pk to Ghana and denied Burkina a clear PK and a clean goal or did u not watch the game ?

Akpu.Nku:
With what happen against Ghana vs Burkina, i think Burkina is destine to win this cup, but i hope Super Eagles win them

Intrepid!:
Any half-inebriated football fan coulda made this same 'prophesy'. A prophesy is 'Nigeria will win by 3 goals to nothing. Emmanuel Emenike will score in the 20th, 35th and 87th minutes.' That is a prophesy not this statement that is neither here nor there.

la furia: those black africans (ghana) cant beat mali

wasiudvd: Atthough I want him to play, but rules should be rules. Seems CAF bend the rules here.
Burkina faso benefited from ref's mistakes too, in this same tournament.

baby-boy:
The funniest thing is that those who doesnt know what a football looking would be so lippy.... you would have the feeling of jumping into the Nile

ocelot2006: You just told everyone u have a small dinkie. No wonder you've been pissed with Nigerians. Kpele.

baby-boy:
If Ghana were to beat Nigeria in the final, am as good as leaving town, avoid, twitter, facebook or whatsapp beacuse Ghanaians are as bad as the English when it comes to bragging and boasting

seyi42k: Don't mind CAF. They probably masterminded it. Think about it for once, which is a bigger final Ghana vs Nigeria or Burkina Faso vs Nigeria. Remember that Referee in Ghana-Nigeria 2000 or the ones that cheated us especially against Cameroon. What happened to them afterwards? Nothing.

CAF probably wanted Ghana in the Final to create a bigger spectacle and also cheat Nigeria by giving the cup to Ghana. Think about it for a moment, we are the largest market in Africa, yet we refused to pay a 'paltry' $4.5m. They will not be happy as we are going to collect prize money without having contributed any. If Ghana had qualified for the final, they would have won it, not because they will play better, but because CAF will want to 'deal' with us for not coughing up money.

Let me say that Nigeria is in for a rude shock in the Finals. Don't be surprised if CAF engineers the match for Burkina Faso, then later suspends the referee by which time the deed will have been done. They almost succeeded in eliminating Burkina Faso, Nigeria should therefore be very careful.

naijababe: No you won't! On Sunday, you'll drink otapiapia because we gon' be lifting the cup

naijababe: Abrantie is still foaming in the mouth! Hehehehehe

Parolee: Not to say I am justifying the Mbombela pitch...but a lot of exaggeration has been done about this pitch issue...things like the ball is bumping all over the field, the playing surface is uneven this that and the other....
The Ghana coach himself mentioned on kickoff magazine that some of the pitches in Ghana and everywhere in Africa are more worse than Mbombela's and his players play on them week in week out....no excuses there, so they must just perform.
The reason why the pitch is in that state was clearly explained...a lot of rain fell in the Nelspruit area just before the tournament kicked-off and that resulted in a breakout of algae on the grass - and this grass is foreign by the way, was impossed on us by FIFA and it is not resistant enough to our conditions...
Can I also say that I attended most of the games in Mbombela as I stay here - the pitch was not at all in a perfect condition BUT was still PLAYABLE...and many things went right.

Soccer city (National Stadium) will definitely provide all the teams with a perfect playing surface, just like Rustenburg, Durbs and PE have done...

Taking the Mbombela games to other venues would have been a logistical problem of huge proportions - the Mbombela games were some of the best attended in terms of spectator numbers I am not sure if your televisions showed you that. Just last night there were about 30000 people in the BF/Ghana game...and some of us we bought our tickets in bulk long before the games would take place....tell me who would have done the refunding and organised for another venue at such short notice? and other logistical issues e.g. security, transport etc

PEOPLLE THE PITCH WAS PLAYABLE!!!! and you can't beat the atmosphere that was always at Mbombela Stadium...it was a real African carnival from the Ethiopians who came in their large numbers to the Burkinabe supporters and team....and of course all the other nationalities, thank you all for a real African carnival you created in our city!!! I've got it all in my video camera....

By the way GOOD LUCK TO BURKINA FASO...the people of Mbombela-Nelspruit city have adopted you as our team! we love you...

Selasie_D: Good nyt my dear. Take it easy ok. Tomorrow is another day