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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 2:33pm On Mar 07
What exactly is Havertz trying to do in this match?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 2:32pm On Mar 07
Martinelli is another player that has been doing nonsense in this match . He’s been doing the same thing and hoping to get a different result 🤦‍♂️

Almost everyone can read his game and guess what he wants to do everytime he has the ball.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 2:27pm On Mar 07
This Dowman thinks he’s in this match to be showboating Abi ? He’s not taking the game serious .

I hope he knows the moment we are out of this competition he won’t be seeing playing time anytime soon .
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 2:24pm On Mar 07
Youth don kill match .

Mosquera too was too sluggish to close the Mansfield striker down.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 2:03pm On Mar 07
Gabriel Jesus has also been piss poor in this match . He’s literally not doing anything to make us win this game comfortably
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 1:59pm On Mar 07
Havertz has not really played well today at all. He’s just been drawing foul and nothing tangible afterwards
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 1:56pm On Mar 07
Madueke makes it 1-0 off a rebound shot.

Nice goal .
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 1:49pm On Mar 07
Calafiori has really really dropped form. Now I understand why Arteta has been staring Hincapie ahead of him in the EPL.

Trossard has been below average this season , he’s still same in this match . I guess old age is catching up with him.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 1:47pm On Mar 07
Madueke and Dowman failing to convert the chances that has fallen to them both .
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 1:33pm On Mar 07
We are playing rubbish for now letting these people grow into the game . The state of their pitch is not an excuse for our current display sha
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 1:27pm On Mar 07
This Dowman is playing like a kid that he is .
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 9:47am On Mar 07
germaphobe:
Evra is not changing his mouth from katsina to kaduda, saying he doesn't hate arsenal that it is just banter and how he would love Arsenal to win. I just dey look de werey as he dey talk trash. There's a difference between banter and hate when you go over the line to construct and say things that ain't real just to play down the hard work of others. The same coach at st pauli that engaged in all forms of dirty tactics including pissing off the opponent minutes before start up is complaining, maybe e pain am as he see say Arsenal sabi do am pass him, cus it takes a time waster who's now wanting to win to recognise 2 seconds of time wasting from opponent.
Baba, I detest the hypocrisy of those rival fans , pundits and managers talking trash about the hard work our players are putting in this season .

See for example how they’ve been raving mad about Arsenal scoring more corners/set pieces as against open play goals . I recently saw a data sheet showing we are second behind City in the highest number of goals scored from open play . Even rival fans whose club’s ratio of set piece goals to open play goal is huge are bleating about us scoring corners again.

The only way we will make them madder than they are is for us to win at least 2 major trophies this year . Let’s see how most of them are IPL crash out
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 11:58pm On Mar 06
I mentioned it the other day that most of the criticism against Arsenal by rival fans, players and coaches are emotion driven and not necessarily facts driven.

It is our duty as fans of this great club to put down some of those agenda with fact and not allow them gaslight us to the extent we start attacking our own team manager when the chips are down.

The Yeye Brighton manager was complaining about Raya wasting time in our midweek match. He was blowing hot and making it seem like Raya was always in the habit of delaying restart of games to rub down the clock in almost every matches we played. The guy was just blabbing and packing all his frustration on our team and would throw just anything to see which one sticks.

The article below shows Raya is actually number 3 on the list of keepers quick to release the ball after picking it up. Raya spends an average of just 3.96 seconds to let go of the ball after a pick-up or claim; only two goalkeepers have done so quicker. They are Bournemouth's Petrovic and Newcastle Nick Pope.

https://www.givemesport.com/premier-league-goalkeepers-ranked-time-wasted-football-soccer/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=69aaec025934da00013c07ce&fbclid=Iwc3NjcAQYOG1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeosaAjWpe2OTkaKe03ruHeCSE3eaTY9wFZ3Pkh8NVQVWtFpUP6iwsC5luY9o_aem_jwbbseZyXCz4fyOCABTLAQ

If as a fan you allow these people to gaslight you, na you Sabi o
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 9:43am On Mar 06
Fkforyou:
Omo, Raya is good..o see stats abeg.

The fact that he had less amount of games to those greats he is been compared to means that he is doing a good job.

He has few numbers to overtake Becker that has stayed in Liverpool longer.

I am not ruling the impact of Gaberiel and Saliba on his stats even though same argument can used for Cech too.

P.S

Van Der Sar thinks Raya isn't world class but Onana is, according to him.

Omo! Man U legends to gba sometimes.
😂😂😂😂



I want us to win this league so bad….. I want to watch Man Utd legends cry blood .
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 12:49pm On Mar 04
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 1:41pm On Mar 03
GloriousGbola:
in think we are mixing up time periods

i am talking about 2015 to 2023 when buhari axed the subsidy framework where the FG was paying multiple marketers and replaced it with undercoververy where NNPC became the sole importer of PMS

i think you are talking about post 2023 subsidy is gone - then yes - at this point in time anyone can import product into nigeria, as long as they have a license for it
I was talking about NNPC post subsidy
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 1:25pm On Mar 03
GloriousGbola:
NNPC was a monopoly

what was happening under buhari's under-recovery is that nnpc was using third parties to import fuel at international market rates then selling to local marketers at subsidy rates. that is why fuel was being sold at a single rate at least in capital cities.


as an NNPC matter, no proper oversight of the quality of the fuel being imported which is how we got that fuel with high percentage of ethanol which restarted fuel scarcity - and rather than sanctions - we saw Mele Kyari laughing with buhari

the whole fuel scarcity in the lead up to the elections - that was also NNPC the sole importer of fuel into nigeria
As far as marketing is concerned , NNPC was not a monopoly after subsidy was removed .

Why do you think there’s been rancor between Dangote and the independent marketers ?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 1:20pm On Mar 03
abduleez1:
How is this present setup a monopoly?
Has the other importers been banned from importing the products. Shebi dem still dey import massively.
Yes, I'm aware Dangote wants them banned but they're still in business. Just like they were doing before.
They're just crying now cos Dangote ain't playing ball with them to do all the illegalities the got away with back then.

If you tell me NNPC isn't a monopoly despite holding oil fields, doing distributor/marketer, importing products, owned refineries, a vertically integrated company, so how is Dangote presently a monopoly?
This is the same shït the useless unions were saying Dangote wants to enter everywhere, that the constitution prohibits a single entity from being in Upstream, Midstream, Downstream bla bla bla.... If that didn't apply with NNPC then make everybody go rest.

I'm aware of the JV contracts and loan stuff and all. Still, even in these contracts there's a quota of oil that should be made available to Nigerian refiners based on production.
FG promising their own quota to Brazil and co for loan and what not na their own palava.

All this one simple, let the NNPC and FG pump more oil... Not all these monopoly funny talks we keep hearing all the time.

Also, there should be transparency and actual numbers and data of the millions of barrels of crude bartered for loan. What amount of money, what number, how many years. What has been used and fulfilled so far and when it's ending.

Them no drop all this ones and na want make I dey drink their KOOL AID.
There’s nowhere in my post I suggested what we have currently is monopoly . I only pointed it out that it’s Dangote that is advocating for monopoly instead of competing with the other players .

As far as petroleum marketing is concerned , NNPC was not a monopoly as against what you alluded in your initial post . Everyone was free to import and sell whether u are NNPC or Emadeb or Rain Oil or Fatgbems , etc
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 12:26pm On Mar 03
abduleez1:
Oga, NNPC no be monopoly? When they were regulator, supplier, importer, producer and every every, shey refineries dey work. You no queue useless queues for years.

I remember the last time nationwide fuel scarcity happened in the country, can't remember the years specifically, whether na 2021 or so (just can't remember the year no more, might be earlier or later).... Anyways I remember how bad the scarcity was and I had to trek kilometres to get to the nearest filling station with fuel.
I remember very well how a large NNPC filling station just 10 mins walk from my house closed the gates on us saying they had no fuel, forcing people trekking kilometres to get fuel.
I remember how the manager called in soldiers to beat us up because of how rowdy the scarcity caused with the ensuing chaos and fights.
These people had fuel but where hoarding it just like the other useless marketers does when they want to fleece us. You go pay for keg, you go pay for gate fee to enter or go out after getting fuel to Agberos, that's not accounting for the fight or punches you might have chested and 2hrs+ you must have wasted on queues. Not accounting for the rude comments you might have endured from the fuel attendants who suddenly become as powerful as a governor, cos that's their moment of ego trip.

So, I say eff monopoly, eff NNPC, eff FG, eff marketers, eff all of them.

This is not before Tinubu came in 2023 and lambast everyone with subsidy removal that somewhat dampened fuel consumption as households has almost abandoned fuel generators because of the prohibitively high price compared to dirt cheap years and better economy.

If government is actually serious they'd sell 600k barrels out of the 1.6mn barrels we currently produce to the Dangote refinery and we'd be shielded by a significant degree from this oil shock going on around the world. No let these people gaslight you.

Dangote refinery can very well serve Nigerian consumption with ease, without imports sef.
In case y'all don't know, Dangote imports over 50% of his oil (with the majority of imports from the US) the rest is what it can get from Nigeria. So, definitely the oil price worldwide is going to affect it.

If Nigeria can't supply it's own refinery the oil it needs, who's fault is it? These are the questions we need to start asking. Especially that useless organisation the NNPC and it's peripherals— NUPRC, NMDPRA.
NNPC was not a monopoly , speak of what you know .

Different major independent marketers brought in their own products while NNPC also imported products . How is that a monopoly ?

It’s actually Dangote that has been making moves to have importation banned while he remains the only local player supplying PMS pending when other local refineries come on board .

Nigeria (under Buhari’s government ) has borrowed money with untapped crude that is still under the soil ; so where will Nigeria get the 600k barrels you are advocating to be sold to Dangote ? Then there are JV contracts that have been long signed between FG and some IOCs giving them control over the same crude you are advocating to be sold directly by FG to Dangote .

I thought we all knew these things because it’s been discussed here over a year ago sef
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 12:21am On Mar 03
nihilistjnr:
Brah this time it's completely different. Marco Rubio came out today to say they had to join Israel after they learnt that those ones were going to bomb Tehran with or without them and they didn't want to collect takeaway pack before they served their own

Don't forget a few weeks ago Bibi literally talked Trump out of bombing Iran further. The thing Israel has been cooking for years is finally here.

It's bloody marvellous kiss
This evening I read the Jews had hacked traffic cameras in Tehran and were monitoring the daily movement of some key officials of the regime for a long while .

Bibi and his boys have been prepared for a long time ; wetin dem cook don finally done. Khamenei don chop him own last supper out of it , na the ones he left behind that are getting served now .
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 12:18am On Mar 03
DissTroy:
Trump


Trump did a press conference stating this and more by 4PM WAT. That's why the alternative facts Okpa kept posting were amusing at best.

I admire the happiness these Iran fanboys create for themselves. They give no fûcks about reality.
Their copium just keeps getting amusing as each day passes . Nothing wey dem no go celebrate
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 12:14am On Mar 03
Elon Musk app ya weyrey gan o! 😂😂😂

Just look at the community note under this post 👀

https://x.com/shiavisuals/status/2027654334033355007?s=46

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 11:27pm On Mar 02
WhoDeyHause:
Iran's government parliament building has been hit.
The number government buildings that have been taken out in Tehran are uncountable sef . Ballistic missile launchers and warehouses all taken out .
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 11:09pm On Mar 02
So the US took out all of Iran’s 11 naval ships in the gulf of Oman and we no even hear pim! But if Iran do mistake hit residential building in Kuwait or Tel Aviv , Okpa go begin permutation and combination 😂

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueRayDick: 9:07pm On Mar 02
pkasso:
Oh, MLS. I totally forgot about him. He started out as a midfielder like your guy Trent, but Arteta converted him to LB.

Iamoyindamola, Blueraydick, come, what happened to this talented young man after the wonderful season he had last year? He went from being a potential starter for England at LB to being 3rd choice at Arsenal. Did his form dip so bad or is it just Arteta's poor record of managing youngsters.
To start with this season is a make or mar season for Arteta at Arsenal ; he needs to do something or something will do him.

Going into the season; Arteta , the fans and even our players know this is the season results n ed to cancel insults if not all the good work they’ve been doing over the years will come to null .

That being said , Lewis-Skelly’s form has not been anything to write home about this season . He played some matches earlier this season and he was piss poor . If I don’t remember anyone at all , at least I recall our match against Bayern ; he appeared totally lost on the pitch . Bayern was capitalizing on his wing until Arteta’s sub took him out of his misery .

Maybe his form didn’t dip so much to make him unplayable , but we got Hincapie to strengthen that left wing along with Calafiori and those two had given a good account of themselves .

Like I mentioned earlier , this is make or mar season for Arteta and I understand perfectly well he can’t afford to risk all our hopes in trying to help the youngster get his mojo back . Personally I don’t subscribe to it ; I’ve seen it happen too many times when a club gives the player so much time and risk everything to help a player get better only for the player to bolt on the team the moment he’s on top of his game .

Ramsey did same to Arsenal , leaving us when we needed him the most . Same with Van Persie leaving after the club stood by him all the while he was having nagging injury issues . I really don’t care if Lewis-Skelly plays or not, I just want this team to win a major trophy even if Arteta use the same starting 11 from match day one to thirty-eight .
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 7:19pm On Mar 02
One of the guys we are supposed to work together on a project tomorrow is stuck in Dubai.

I found out this morning that he was supposed to travel over the weekend before Iran went berserk against gulf countries .
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueRayDick: 4:37pm On Mar 02
If I talk say this Caicedo guy Dey play gidigbo football , some Chelsea fans will be getting emotional .

Just look at 😏

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 3:39pm On Mar 02
David Raya is him !

I know some fans still question why Arteta replaced Ramsdale with Raya, but from my own point of view I think Raya has given a good account of himself over time .

https://x.com/footballera_/status/2028417196171342330?s=46
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 3:33pm On Mar 02
iamoyindamola:
Scummies legend, the failed coach turn pundit isonu said he doesn't think Pedro was offside
These ones have serious hate in their heart towards Arsenal. The only way to keep them shut is for Arsenal to be successful
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 2:58pm On Mar 02
raumdeuter:
Shehu Abubakar has a NIN tied to this bank account, why cant the money in Shehus name be held back by the bank or trace whoever he transfers it to and wait block all transactions from those accounts until they show up physically at a bank

If kidnapper know they cannot use Bank accounts to receive and send money, what will they ask for next? Physical cash in Ghana Must go?.

The basic way in law enforcement to crack crime is "Follow the money"
I think from top to bottom our security agencies don't have the willpower to combat these crimes.

If u noticed the guy mentioned he found his way to a military base and had to speak with the major in charge, but no mention of whether the military guys even make attempt to comb the environs to try and seek out the criminals.

Like there's this kind of layback attitude from them that they seem so unbothered to take any action. More like they will just tell the guy congratulations and tell him how fortunate he was to escape.

Police no gree trace receiver of the funds, soldiers no gree enter bush look for kidnappers operating in their domain. E be like say the common man is left to his own fate.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueRayDick: 2:54pm On Mar 02
iamoyindamola:
Idan mi



Blueraydick na who be this lady grin grin
grin grin

Omo, that lady mouth no good. She's a Yoruba sports newscaster that adds spice to her programs.

If u see where she dey yab arsenal ehn....E sweet me say na Chelsea dey chop banter for her hand now sha
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 2:35pm On Mar 02
raumdeuter:
The Shehu Abubakar who received the money, Cant the police use the Bank KYC detail to trace him
That's the million-dollar question. Sometimes I feel our security agencies just do not have the willpower to combat any crime that has to do with kidnapping so far it does not involve a high-profile person.

The reason why I said that is because I know they use KYC details to track and arrest normal citizens that have economic and financial crime issues.

One of my ex-secondary school mates was arrested late last year through the help of bank harvesting his KYC details. According to what he told me, some guys wanted to receive money, and he gave them his bank account details because they promised to give him part of it. He fooolishly allowed them to receive around 16m with his account and they asked him to take N1.4m out of it. I know him to be greedy and always thinking he was smart, so I know he would always fall for such silly schemes.

Months later he was tracked down by the fraud unit of Nigerian police, Ikoyi. They said those guys moved the money from someone's piggyvest and used his own account to clean it. This my guy spent Christmas, New Year, the whole of January and part of February in police detention. He forfeited all the money in his own account and even had to tell his people to sell whatever they can sell just for him to raise funds to return part of the money those guys collected. He also had to pay for tracking fee so those guys could be arrested to answer for their own part of the crime.

If the police can use his KYC details to track him down to his work place where he was arrested, I believe they can track most of these kidnappers. Juts that the willpower to do so is lacking.

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