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Winning comes first for me. Good footie na jara. . Good luck with losing despite having the ball 80% of the time.

eph12:
There's a difference between wins and play good footie

I agree if they had scored one more, it would have been harder to come back from that, but well it is what it is. Same way if Martial and those boys had converted our chances from close range against PSG we probably would have at least gotten a draw from that game. In the end, you want to win enough to win. You want results.

Lana1:
I'm not saying we won the game by luck but we were lucky to only be 1 down at HT.

West Ham hit the bar and that one guy dribbled Henderson only to slip as he was about to pull the trigger into an empty net. Na luck

Why do i have a feeling when we meet this Leeds team, na barbecue chicken. Make dem just hope say Rashford, Martial, Greenwood dey misfire left and right on that day. . They leave just too much space in between and at the back. This team definitely needs better quality to be devastating. Counter go sweet against these people ooo.

There we go again. Luck, luck, luck. If na luck, may we continue to be lucky.

Lana1:
Our defensive shape is alarming.
Everytime a team runs at us, we always look like conceding. We were really lucky in that first half.

How have we gone from 3rd best defence to this.

I am sorry ,but nobody wins without exceptional players.

MRTA7:
Important 3 points.

Seems without Bruno we don't even play football. We play cricket.

I site you. Abi i tell you.

Leyqute:
Man Utd cannot win this game

So be it. That home should have seized to exist once she played that away match. Once the pikin no even take anything resemble me na straight to the hospital.

Gabbriell:
It will only lead to the destruction of homes. You may be supprised that some homes with about six children. Probably 2 out of the 6 are from away matches the wife played...but the home is still United and growing.

DNA TEST AT BIRTH WILL NOT INCREASE TRUST BECAUSE PEOPLE CAN STILL CHEAT WITH PROTECTION AND PILLS.

Such a way to encourage infidelity. Continue.

ensamy:
In Igbo tradition, any child born in a man's house by his wife is his, DNA test or no DNA test. He paid the bride price. Even if she brought the pregnancy prior to marriage .

I like to be optimistic, so i declare, yes.

Leyqute:


Do you think we’ll beat West Ham tomorrow ?

Man, abeg do not rejoice over such a scene.

TheLionofLasigi:
Hahaha a rare picture of your dad and grandma.... grandma's boobs tho

If luck keeps repeating itself, we may have to start calling it something else. If you ask me what should we call it then? I am not sure, honestly. But i'll say this though, there a few things we know about Ole, 1. He's always lurking around. 2. He seems to come up big when he doesn't have much to proof, then when he hits that pedal and then you you start cruising he delivers a jolt of electricity. Ole and hypertension are like 5 and 6. He derives pleasure in delivering hypertension packages to the spoilt Man united fans.

Leyqute:
Boy. If we beat West Ham we’d be on 19 points , just 2 points away from the top of the league with a game in hand.

But Amaka will likely disappoint tomorrow.

Amaka fuucks up at the simple, common sense stuff but surprisingly does well at the big stuff. Or maybe na luck.

Today i am not gonna talk about Ole, cos we all know he has a part ownership in a bottling company in Norway. . Na him way. Today i am going to talk about assumptions made in retrospect. When Cavani contributed to all 3 goals against Southampton, a lot of people here were criticisizing ole for not starting Cavani. Sebi Cavani start against PSG, wetin him do? Some of you forget that if Cavani had started against Southampton perhaps we could have lost. The circumstances could have been different. We could have created fewer chances. The long and short of this is that when an Elite player comes off the bench and makes a very important contribution appreciate it and accept that, well he came in and delivered the goods. Great. The fact that someone comes off the bench and does it does not mean they must start in the next considering this on a case by case basis. Time to start benching Martial and Rahshford, especially the former, but who go replace them? Hmm, that's definitely a good question. The last time Greenwood started over Cavani, dem wan crucify Ole for here. I repeat stop carrying a context into another time and expect it to work in the same.

I don't know but i just have a feeling Ole will go and kill those guys in Germany. If Ole, the sports prefect. no first give you hypertension him no dey deliver. Very strange somebody. Did i just talk about Ole? Sorry i just couldn't help it. . Man yi o ni fi hypertension pa yan.

Anything is whatever we call it, and no one should stand somewhere and tell me what is and what is not an achievement. Inferiority complex is deeply ingrained in some of us, and we don't even know it, our mannerisms utterances reek of it, but well my friend who apparently knows better will tell me it's being modern. Bullshit. If the majority of our brothers, sisters husbands, and wives regard them as achievements, then they are, until they decide otherwise. Do we not generally consider getting a PhD a tremendous academic achievement. O yes, cos we say it is, but well we don't all get to complete one. So the fact that you don't want something or you can't get it doesn't make it less an achievement. Call it a communal achievement or whatever. it's what it is, an achievement. Are some achievements relatively more important than others? O yes, which is subjective. Whether the white man doesn't care is not our business, and all their ways do not have to be yardsticks for ours. It's on a case by case basis. Good luck with trying to convince your community it's not an achievement. By the way, I will appreciate it if such statements come from women other than the ones approaching menopause. cheesy grin. Bunch of clueless people.
On the other hand, some people will keep referring to the fact that procreation is an order. However, perhaps you can read what follows in Genesis 1 vs 28, which points to the fact that there must be the availability of resources, as in rule over the fish in the sea and the birds of the air. In this light, perhaps we should consider our pockets before doing either or both of those. cheesy. Be wise.

BadRadio:
Some live to harness themselves for it.

Some would set no other goal & do nothing else but look forward to the excitement of being married.

For a man or a woman, Is marriage and having kids an achievement?

When a man or a woman decides by choice not to have kids or get married, does it in anyway affect them?

What are the core importance of being married or getting married.

Is having children paramount in marriage?

hi

Men, Nagielsmann dey shout ooo. . Abi na IB coach manager?

@nitrogen you don start again with your "one legged" arguments. . From one decade to another the average of the points amassed has definitely gone up, although even during the 90's some champions amassed over 90 points. So would you say the premier league is progressing?It depends on what you call progress. In my book competition is progress, so i would argue the league has regressed, i mean most of the teams just suck. But well you will then bring in issues like better technology, better pitches, better medical services, and i'll have to give in, cos you would have mentioned way too many progress parameters than i have. I'll take your closing the gap argument. But your argument with respect to Moyes vs OGS isn't. It's of no use to compare them solely based on points. You better use a more holistic comparison. At one time you amass 80 points and come fourth, and at another time you amass 85 and come fifth. Would you call this progress. Hell no. As an owner, i will fire you and tell you that you failed to qualify for the champions league. Your idea of which comparisons apply are not quite useful, honestly. Sir Alex must have made no net progress with his teams given that the total number of points amassed in the years we were champions moved up and down. He even won with 75 points.

nitrogen:
I dont think you understand my point. There is no assumption here, I am comparing Moyes’ output to OGS’s in terms of points.

Also, this thing is not rocket science, compare a year when a league leader amassed 81 points and the club that comes 4th (say Arsenal) gets 70 points, and another year where a leader got 100 points and the same club, this time in 3rd position got 66 points, what does that tell you about Arsenal fc? Is that progress?

I don’t know why you are not getting it sha. Anyway, whatever rocks your boat!

I expect nothing more from a manager that bottled a 2-0 lead.

TrebleChamp:
Southampton manager said our players were celebrating in the dressing room like they just won the title, na the man throw shades at us but people dey quote and blame LostMyZeal and you. That our players celebrated the way Sutton manager pointed out shows how low we have sunk as a team. This na Manchester United for f**k sake...

Google dey show say the Leicester match dey live. Abi referee still dey do penalty check ni? .

Rodgers the emperor of bottlers. Ole dey learn where this man dey. . Can he ever help himself?

Fantastic manager and serial winner ki you there. You definitely began supporting manchester united in 2014.

spillo1:
Pochettino is not a serial loser and he is a fantastic manager.

See, me dey support cos i am team Ibile, but well if Ibile proves incompetent, you can't help but look outside. I am off the wagon. Moka ọwọ lẹ rọ mo n wo. .I leave him to his fate. What i won't accept is for someone to be so hateful that he would rather another team wins the premier league than Manchester United as long as Ole is in charge.

adebayo201:
I no like Amaka and I no too hate am...


But that guy really want to do gbajue for us and we sabi book small.

@LostMyZeal come closer make i tell you something. . You can definitely suggest a coach that is good enough to replace Ole. I'll even take Nagielssman, he's not been around for a long time. But bringing up Pochetinno as a suitable replacement makes me doubt your winning mentality. . We don't want no serial loser, friend. We can do better.

You dey mind that guy. He's always making up stories to prop up his hatred of Ole.

adebayo201:
If I recall properly, these two no even dey bench let alone start the game.

You don't always win comfortably no matter how great you are. Sometimes you win by the skin of your teeth. Of all this, what is sweeting me the most is that, sports prefect Ole constantly outdoes the coaches you guys claim are far better than him. . Bielsa is next.

patrickmuf:
I get your point, as much as I celebrated that 3rd goal, when I settled down, I thought to myself that we just escaped an embarrassment...

You are a Ole hater and it's very clear. Continue. . What do you mean by Kane has played so well in the EPL so Tottenham should win? Why should any well-meaning Manchester fan make such an utterance? Are you alright? . More like you are praying Ole should fail. There's no point commenting on the rest of your post. You even started by mentioning Tottenham vs Chelsea, wetin concern us with them? . But well we know where your argument always ends. Continue.

LostMyZeal:
Saw the Spurs and Chelsea game
I didn't expect Mourinho to pack the bus tho
But the Man is wise.... prolly figured a draw wouldn't be that bad

Today's comeback was superb... reminded me of RVP's hat trick during SAF's time and we were equally 2 goals down and playing away from home ...gave me the nostalgic feeling of the Glory days


Evidently, we have an okay squad that ought to be a threat but OLE clearly doesn't know how to use them to their strength...the likes of Allegri and Poch would low-key be begging to have this squad


Not to even talk of the Likes of Roberto Martinez, Villas boas, David Moyes & co who will do a much better job than this Fraud called OLE

Cavani came in and immediately we saw how he was closing down defenders an getting them to lose the ball for fred and VDB to make the recoveries...this is what Anthony Boneface will never offer to this team


Bruno played a lot of stupid and careless passes that were not carefully thought out ( ...those scouts were right afterall) today tbh and that idiocy put unnecessary pressure on our midfield but he redeeemed himself in the second half just like Rashford was doing last season


VDB was dispossessing and making tackles ... something that french peacock called Pogba would never offer to the team...towards the end of the game he was whipping one-time passes across the pitch....now that's class


Now that the disaster OLE brought upon us is still salvageable...a competent coach needs to step in cos it's obvious that we've been relying on the individual brilliance of our star-studded team


Majority of The boys clearly wanna play for the club....but OLE is dangerously clueless....so there's that

I hope tottenham can win the title tho
Kane has played so well as a 9 in the EPL and he deserves that medal... Goodluck to Tottenham



Meanwhile...to the well meaning fans...let us rejoice for when this experiment is finally over...the Glory days will be back


JAh bless MUFC

Bullshit. no be everybody dey talk say Greenwood dey clinical? Perhaps the most clinical in our team. Who would have thought he would miss those chances? By the way he no be say all the chances fall to one person. Abi you dey assume say Cavani go dey in Rashford's, Bruno's and Greenwood's positions just at the same time those chances fell to them? I will need to do some quantum mechanics to guess the probability of that happening. . All the opinions wey most of you guys dey offer na in retrospect, nobody would have expected the attack to be that wasteful. No be you people dey talk say make Ole make correct substitutions. Well he did so today. Did Cavani not play against IB? Yes he played for 90 minutes, and although he didn't score, we won. So these things happen. If Cavani had started he may not have had any clear-cut chances at goal, and you would be saying something else. Make una calm down.

Leyqute:
LooL. Olé no Dey hear word. Too arrogant. Should’ve started Cavani. He would’ve converted one of those early chances.

Ole, the PE teacher teaching the ingenious class of coaches some lessons. . Which kain coach be this? From Nagielsmann to this one. Now dem go talk say oh, but Southampton has an inferior team, which is true actually. But abeg stay one place make thunder locate una.

No i don't have a narrow understanding of the "research process". You are the one that obviously doesn't know much. You said that the majority of Nigerians go abroad and become the best in their field, that's very false, emphasis on "very". What does that even mean?. Perhaps, some of them, maybe 10/20%. Besides most of those that go on to become the best don't come home anyway. Maybe you are just not communicating well enough, but your opinion that they are stuffed with theoretical knowledge is kind of not useful. I do not know what to do with that information. About half of the researchers in the world do theoretical/computational work. What will we say about mathematicians? Na play dem dey play? You must think all researchers need labs to do research. We definitely should think about the theoretical researchers too. Their contributions are as important. Whether directly or indirectly is another question.

My point is, irrespective of what kind of research we are talking about, theoretical or experimental, the training back home needs a lot of improvement and i mean a lot. It's not good. The system consists of people, so if the system is this bad, you can only point to the competence of the researchers/professors. I do understand the force behind your arguments though, you are likely someone who completed a post-grad degree in Nigeria or currently pursuing one, but no i am not trying to deride you or something. Note that my description is a general one. As i understand, from some of his posts, it's obvious Prof Wip here works with some students studying in Nigeria. There are other competent researchers like that in Nigeria. Infact you may be working with a competent professor yourself. For a while now i have been looking at the publication records of different professors at some of the best Universities in Nigeria, and most of these publications were not published in respectable journals. This is my basis for labeling the Nigerian researchers as mostly incompetent. I will admit though, I have been mostly looking at Physics researchers and i occasionally come across the profiles of some researchers from chemistry, petroleum Engineering doing very well. You look at the quality of thier research and the journals they are published and you say, wow nice.

KelvinCoaster:
I can see that you have a narrow understanding of 'the research process'.
What makes a person a 'competent researcher'? Majority of Nigerian Graduates go abroad and become the best in their fields!Let me educate you on the reason:They are 'stuffed' with theoritical knowledge without requisite practical know-how, because of my earlier position.Having access to practical exposures abroad blended with the vast theoritical knowledge acquired in Nigeria makes the 'Researcher' competent.I think i have made my point clear!

You are definitely not getting my point.
1. My point is most of the researchers in Nigeria are not competent researchers. As I said you can only give what you have. If you have not been properly trained you cannot just create a mini lab even if you wanted to. So what do you expect from someone not well equipped intellectually to do research? You need to be able to ask the right questions that are answerable from the knowledge available at the moment. And as far as I am concerned you usually don't know how to do research properly and independently until after a PhD. So yes if you want to do you PhD elsewhere, which means you want to learn how to do research then go wherever offers you that training. I am s talking about those wanting who to get a PhD.

KelvinCoaster:
benji93...The point(s) you made is just 5% of the problem.I am speaking from experience now:99% of Nigerian lecturers expect the government to build research laboratories and create funds to facilitate research.This has been the blame-game ASUU have played since 1994.Anyone with a drive to succeed can set up a mini-laboratory where basic,fundamental and original studies can be carried out.Rather,what you have are lecturers that prefer to spend their money on buying SUVs and building mansions.Majority of our colleagues in Europe and the USA have private labs(example,wip7).This makes a large chunk of their success-stories because they are able to solve problems at-a-go!
'Setting up private research laboratories is a major game changer'.

I think both of you are only partially correct. He's wrong because he opined no one should take a lecturing job in Nigeria. Nigeria needs a lot of influx of good researchers now. On the other hand, if you get a PhD opportunity overseas at institutions that offer a lot more, take it. I am not forcing anyone, but i sincerely hope that our researchers that are doing well overseas and with some power to hire students, can either add Nigerian students with research potentials to their research team thereby setting up a chain reaction that could result in at least a number of people they train/mentor/supervise end up back home, or they can offer their research expertise during sabbaticals or via adjunct professorships, or do the coming home themselves at a point in their lives. Without this influx, which requires some sacrifice on the part of our researchers, I do not think this country can progress with respect to research. We effectively have a system in which the mechanism of information dissemination is stable in mediocrity. There's no way we fix this without that influx, one way or another. The majority of our researchers back home are not doing well research-wise. They still publish in predatory journals and very low-impact journals, which frankly is not exactly their fault. You cannot give what you don't have. It's what they were taught. So saying the Nigerian research environment or even Nigerian tertiary institutions are not good is factual and it's not to demean the Nigerian educational system. Sad but True. Note that I am referring to the general status quo. There are definitely a number of Nigerians in Nigeria doing good research. The Nigerian educational clime needs a breath of fresh air. I won't lie to you it will take a lot of will for someone doing well to come home, some may even call doing that suicidal. However, that's exactly what the system needs.

KelvinCoaster:
I disagree with you!
Being an Academia in Nigeria is worth it.This entitlement mentality of looking for 'Funder' before embarking on a Ph.D is not good.
You should not demean the Nigerian educational system!

You, na confirm winch.

saaphiere:
Not a Fan of dogs.
i like cats.

You are right to be suspicious. Either say Ole Jujuman don dey slack or na him no dey follow instructions to the letter. . Ebu don dey dey inside him Jazz.

patrickmuf:
I just hope Istanbul Basaksehir gets a point against Leipzig or beat them if possible because I don't trust this our team when the stakes are high...

But before then, Sutton on Sunday...We really need all the points in that game, I hope the players are up for it...