European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 6:50pm On Oct 30 |
GloriousGbola: As a naija matter the fire could have come from anywhere
Bad electrical connection Storing petrol in electrical room
We had a massive fire in 2009 when the facility manager overhauled generator with tokunbo turbocharger. Generator exploded at night. They put out the fire not knowing the fire had followed cables and entered the building. Four floors gone.
One time they were eating in gen house and that led to rats running around the place . Rat entered panel, shorted busbar and a fire started.
It could be arson, but a lot of things people do casually can also lead to fire. Also cheap inverter install with lithium batteries
Right now a lot of people are jumping on electric vehicles and those ones will likely soon start their own combustion issues once naija mechanics start messing with the batteries
I am kind of suprised sha because my mechanic who is effectively a road side guy has arrangements with vigilantes because of risk or vandalism. You are right, the fire could've been caused by electrical wiring in the premises. Nigeria ehn, sometimes tbey will bring light and u will see visible spark on the electric pole. Ive seen it countless times while going on the random and a random street Transformer would spark with naked light seen on the high tension cable. These things can cause fire. I seriously doubt it's arson. I saw videos of people who came out to assist in trying to put out the fire. It further reiterate my belief that generally, Nigerians dey lookout for each other especially when they see fellow Nigerians in danger. At that moment they will forget their differences. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 6:37pm On Oct 30 |
raumdeuter: Anyone doing any type of business and making it anywhere in the world, I give massive kudos to them
Though insurance will likely pay but to get that inventory back plus th increase in insurance going forward I doubt the guy has any Insurance jàre. From the comments of people who I presume know the guy running the workshop, he's just a mechanic who specializes in repairing Mercedes Benz. Most car dealers and importers take their cars to his workshop for him to fix any issues the Tokunbo vehicles have before they sell . So majority of the vehicles belong to dealers while the rest belong to his individual customers. My fear for the guy is that some of the car owners will not take the loss in good faith and tbey will definitely harrass him with both state and non-state actors at their disposal. While the guy is reeling from the loss of his workshop, he will be getting serious heat from customers whose cars got burnt. Any of the customers who has Comprehensive motor Insurnace can claim from their insurer and get paid. It's just that they will not get above whatever value tbey insured. So if the Benz was 20m when they insured and it's now 35m in the market, dem no go get pass that 20m. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 5:12pm On Oct 30 |
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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 4:13pm On Oct 30 |
iamoyindamola: This is soo unfortunate, the guy business, clients car all gone Omo I hate shiit like this either coincidence or intentional the guy can't survive this As in....There's no coming back from this kind of unfortunate incident. As much as everybody knows it is most likely not his fault ,some of the customers whose cars burnt may threaten or even harm him. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 4:01pm On Oct 30 |
A Benz Specialist's workshop was engulfed in fire overnight ; all vehicles in the guy's workshop were razed.
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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueRayDick: 3:02pm On Oct 30 |
iamoyindamola: You sef see am How the mighty have fallen Maybe Premier League should just award 0 points to both teams make dem rest. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueRayDick: 2:43pm On Oct 30 |
This one wey Chelsea and Man Utd fans dey wish their respective teams to lose ehn, I no come understand o  |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueRayDick: 10:14am On Oct 30*. Modified: 12:42pm On Oct 30 |
Bluelines69: Alonso have now successfully added spurs 30 losses from 50 games played 😲 That means if it were to be a mini-competition involving Chelsea, Utd, Loserpool, Arsenal and City ; Una go be the whipping boys wey everybody go dey use stat-pad. 🤔 |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 12:43pm On Oct 29 |
johnjunior39: But if we be honest this is where good management come in, Arteta need to create and work it out for him. VG came to arsenal not just to win tittles for us but to also improve himself. We need to ask ourselves why some players leave Arsenal and start shining. Havertz is not a striker , will never be a striker , you cant rely on him to win games. Wetin pain for Havertz case is that he cant even nod properly, how he always find himself in good position self baffles me because he will always waste it.
Now the team too have to particpate in the calling out, Like I used an example once, Chamarkh had a goal drought and everyone was crossing for him to score, teammates did it for Giroud too when he came new, same with Havertz , If I even rememeber, VG first goal he hustled it. Everytime I watch Arsenal game lately , they also play like there is no front man. Tzolis try though.
Havertz is best a super sub than a starter When you say "the team too have to participate in the calling out", I hope you don't mean that team members have to tell fellow player that he's not good enough? I don't thank that can ever happen. Most of the current Arsenal players have a very friendly relationship with each other. Aside that, I don't think Arteta will tolerate any player tearing fellow player down because of their perfromance. That being said, the part where you talked about everybody crossing to Chamarkh, Giroud, etc.....I think you are making it seem like the current Arsenal players are the problem as far as Gyokeres' form is concerned. I think that line of thought is unfair to the players. Last season Gyokeres arrived with lot of hopes and he got servicing quite well. But things didn't go as planne; he had some atrocious misses that are available in compilation videos on YouTube. He had misses against Man UTD, Kairat, Brighton, etc to mention a few. Despite the misses, he still ended up as Arsenal's top scorer. Why ? Because his teammates created those chances for him despite him having 13 big chances missed in the EPL and 10 missed chances missed in the UCL. While I don't fault the idea of other players picking him out with a pass when he's in a good position in the attacking phase of play, I don't believe everybody must focus on servicing only him when he plays. I don't fancy the idea of relying on a single player as our goal threat. He should also work on his positioning, his first touch and show us that big game player attitude we saw in him that made us sign him. I hope he rediscovers that form soonest, he needs to for the sake of the team. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 11:59am On Oct 29 |
Realmrsean: we don dey enter dry season naau You know how it goes.. no more enough water to pump our hydro power stations The bold is a myth that we used to believe for years, but now we know better. According to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, about 70% of electricity we use on the national grid is generated from gas powered stations (Thermal power), while hydropower stations account for less than 30% of the electricity we consume. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 11:50am On Oct 29 |
Realmrsean: dry season+ Lack of electricity ×El Nino ÷ Tinubu relection I thought Tinubu's reelection is supposed to have a positive effect on power supply na. Power supply is supposed to increase na , at least if he cannot fulfil the electoral promise of 2022/2023 to give 24 hours electricity supply; there should be considerable improvement in supply few months to election. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 10:31am On Oct 29 |
iamoyindamola: No be small thing The last time we used nepa light was on Monday evening and lasted for 1hour 23minutes, have learn the hard way you have to check how long electricity we are getting. Rain have been falling lately so el-nino still fair and not serious like the weekend. Since yesterday afternoon till now we've also not used NEPA light. Fuel is selling for almost 1,360 per liter. I think about last two weeks I saw a flier online from one of the DISCOs talking about shortfall in the volume of power being generated by GENCOs. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 9:57am On Oct 29 |
iamoyindamola: Tired of pretending Blueraydick How's the light situation? It has gone worse. Na the solar fan dey carry us overnight, if not El-Nino for don frustrate person life. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueRayDick: 11:15pm On Oct 28 |
Fufuna aka '6 must show' 😂
Sure banker! |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueRayDick: 11:13pm On Oct 28 |
Fufuna you do this one  |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueRayDick: 9:44pm On Oct 28 |
This Una Fufuna 🤡🤡🤡 |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 9:43pm On Oct 28 |
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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueRayDick: 9:41pm On Oct 28 |
popizaino: Don't insult Gakpo abeg. He's just a right footed Havertz. If you watch him long enough, you will clock it. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueRayDick: 9:34pm On Oct 28 |
This Cody Gakpo is Loserpool Havertz 😁 |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 2:05pm On Oct 28 |
Something is definitely not adding up with the loans master strategist keeps collecting since he came to power.
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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 11:06am On Oct 28 |
daveP: The fun part is money no be problem. We just seem to never have this edge in the window. We win league finish and still dey drag Summer window like say na 4th we finish till dem snatch Rogers from us.
The Alvarez we dey rush. By now we suppose don finalize that deal expectations before January cos i know Arteta go still rush am. 5days in we suppose finish that deal but watch as dem go drag am again. Annoying!!
As for the Kai-Stans abi Harvetz-stans, i know they'll rather bend vibranium than admit.
Imagine calling out each individual of the XI for their own BS but the moment it is Kai, Na "Kai!! No go there" you go hear.
Gabu Cala Mosquera Eze Timber White Madueke Saka Tzolis Gyokeres
Etc
All have been called out this season alone, all.
Except Kabiyesi Kai aka Messi of Arsenal. He can do no wrong. 😂
Even Messi and Ronaldo get criticism for field of play performances.
I hope we get the two in January and not Summer. We can't survive such depleted attack, especially as we gun for UCL glory this time. I don't know what you mean by Havertz not getting called out this season, but does these posts below count as calling out Havertz ? If you look well on this thread and even on Chelsea thread, fans regularly call out Havertz when he drops a stinker. We also celebrate him when he scores for the club. The thing u are failing to acknowledge is that both Havertz and Gyokeres are big money signings that should be scoring bag load of goals for the club all things being equal. Both of them have been disappointing and we've been calling them out . Supporting Gyokeres ahead of Havertz or vice versa while both players are stinking up the joint doesn't make either of them a better player for Arsenal. Another thing you should note is that Gyokeres came to Arsenal with fans having a lot of high expectations about his goalscoring ability owing to his exploits at Sporting. Same can't be said for Havertz whom most fans actually weren't expecting much from his move from Chelsea. BlueRayDick: Players like Havertz are just frustrating to watch most of the times. He would score difficult goals like the one he scored against PSG in the champions league final, only for him to lose a one-on-one vs Goalkeeper with the keeper off his line like this evening.
Hopefully we add that Bournemouth striker Kroupi Jr to our attack options Sha BlueRayDick: See wetin Havertz lose 🤦♂️ johnjunior39: It really bothers me that Havertz can be a better striker than someone. Any proven striker that Havertz is better that one life don spoil. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 8:01am On Oct 28 |
afrodoc2: You harsh gan o. That guy was close to turning Dowman's future from Arsenal star winger to STANBIC loan officer. Hehehe.
I see referees speaking to players sometimes to calm down. There is still room for context and interpretation. A warning could have still worked as it was not an egregiously violent action in my book. That guy was a few newtons force away from turning Dowman's standing leg into bone pulp.
Arteta could still have spoken to him privately or in front of the team back at the club. He will experience more of such tackles if he intends to play as a winger who takes defenders to the cleaners. It is good this is happening now so he can learn from this experience and know how best to handle such situations. Retaliating with a kick is never the best course of action in such situations. He's literally leaving his fate to be decided by a ref who may have his own biases. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 7:58am On Oct 28 |
Better2morrow: Oga Odegaard actually stepped up!!! Hervertz the Sh*t wasted all the chances. Didn't you see the quality of passes by Odegaard sent to the box and his shot Hervertz is the sole reason we lost pls. Havertz is not the sole reason we lost. The whole team was disjointed to start with. We keep losing the ball in the middle , we failed to break the Fleetwood defense in the first half , we had wingers not taking the game to them and then we had attackers like Gyokeres & Havertz missing chances. I'm not a fan of Havertz but u can't zero this particular loss on just Havertz alone. When last did we rely on just one player to score? What happened to our creativity in the first half ? Why does our backline look so easy for some league 2 team to penetrate and score goal with our CB sprawling on the floor? The whole team didn't play well yesternight. But if u want to blame only Havertz, no wahala sha. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 6:50am On Oct 28 |
mostob:
Doing this to a 16-year old is insane. Are the refs no longer taking intent into consideration. I'm not sure the guy was even booked. And I've been seeing a lot of reactions berating Arteta for his reaction on the touchline. IMO, it is justified. Kids need tough love sometimes. When you also considered we're going to Anfield with one and a half winger. Baba, let's leave emotions out of this thing. Whether u are 16 or 39 year old like Messi, if u retaliate when a foul is committed ; it is judged as violent conduct under ghe rules if the game. A violent misconduct attracts a straight red card from the ref, it's not debatable. If Dowman doesn't learn that bitter lesson now, who knows if it's UCL final or an EPL title decider match he will cost us with such temperament? I think he will come out of this with a valuable lesson learnt. I also support Arteta's instantaneous reaction to let him know how he let himself and the whole team down at that moment. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 6:26am On Oct 28 |
Roland17: Downman is at a critical stage in his career and this experience will help in his development, especially with managing his temperament. However, I don’t think it should cost him minutes when they are available. One, with injuries to Tzolis and Saka, we don’t even have the luxury of bodies upfront. Two, it would be too harsh and may affect his confidence.
Personally, I don’t have any problems with how Arteta handled it when he walked past, after the red. Arteta needed Dowman to know that he just made a stupid and costly mistake with his choice to retaliate. The tough love in that moment was needed. How Dowman handles it will determine a lot.
At the time when Dowman received the red card, it was no longer Arsenal vs Fleetwood, it was Arsenal vs advancing, the name of the opponent becomes irrelevant. We did not deserve to advance today, we were quite poor.
Dowman, I believe will learn from this and I hope your man gives him minutes when available. I expect him to be better if that scenario plays out again. 1. The reality is :Dowman's actions leading to the red card will cost him playing time that wasn't surplus for him in the first place. He had higher chances of playing more minutes in the EFL cup than any other competition Arsenal is playing in this season. Tzolis will be back within a couple of weeks. 2. Knowing how cautious Arteta can be, he will rely more on Madueke to play on the right wing while Saka is out injured. He will most likely bring in Dowman in our matches when the match is almost done and dusted. Don't be surprised if he brings in a defender to man the right wing instead of Dowman while we are defending a one-goal lead. 3. If I was a coach, I would've done the same thing Arteta did on the touchline immediately Dowman gets sent off. He needs to get a feel of the feedback right there and then. He needs to know everyone is gutted for h and the team as a whole. 4. Overall the team was piss-poor losing in that manner to Fleetwood. The whole team looks disjointed with no senior player stepping up to take the game by the neck. It just look as if these boys justify why Arteta won't rest some first team players in cup matches. I mean if Saliba comes back and we see him pairing with Mosquera or Konsa in CB, we shouldn't be blaming Arteta cos the fringe players didn't live up to expectations when they were called upon. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 5:45am On Oct 28 |
afrodoc2: I really rate the boy. The fact that Arteta of all people is giving him a chance at CB at 17yrs 1-2 months should tell you how much he rates him as well. He will get stronger and better as he grows and keeps playing in challenging situations. Unfortunately for the boy and Dowman, these are the type of matches they can truly get playing time...... Arteta takes FA cup serious and would not risk starting them ahead of senior squad players if we play any decent opposition. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 11:36pm On Oct 27 |
Dowman just reduced his chances of seeing quality playing time this season. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 11:09pm On Oct 27 |
We deserve to lose. The performance was woeful overall from defence to midfield and even to attack |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 11:05pm On Oct 27 |
iamoyindamola: He said he invites challenges with his dribbles and he's right as how Dribbles attract challenges whether fair or not. The ref is there to decide which challenge deserves caution or not. A player who is a dribbler needs to work on his temper, if not he will always get red carded for retaliating like Dowman did. It is what it is. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 11:00pm On Oct 27 |
Our second 11 is shiiit! That's what this game revealed. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 10:59pm On Oct 27 |
iamoyindamola: Useless commentators said he deserve it because he invites challenges with his dribble That's not what I heard the commentator say. He said the boy needs to restrain himself in such situations cos he's a dribbler and dribbles will attract such kind of challenge. The commentator is right. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 10:48pm On Oct 27 |
This yeye boy Don go collect red card.
Goodnight 🤦♂️ |