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James Rodriguez: La Liga suits my style...

http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/69/transfer-zone/2014/07/03/4934881/james-rodriguez-la-liga-suits-my-style?ICID=HP_BN_6


Thinking what i am thinking!

James Rodriquez our Super-Sub!

At last, Barca can bank on the bench...

Happy Independence Day To All Americans!!!


Happy Independence Day To All Nigerian-Born Americans!!!


Happy Independence Day To All American-Immigrants!!! ------ *Modified*


Happy Independence Day To All African-Born Americans!!!


Happy Independence Day To All Foriegn-Born Americans!!!

How did the first Independence Day come about?

In 1776, Richard Henry Lee, who was born in Virginia but schooled in England, proposed that the 13 American colonies should declare their independence from Britain.

A committee of five men, including Thomas Jefferson, was appointed to build a case for severing ties with Britain and draft the Declaration of Independence. Congress voted in favour of independence on 2 July and it was formally issued two days later, on 4 July 1776.

The Declaration of Independence was first read out to cheering crowds on 8 July, and by 15 July all 13 American colonies had approved it (New York previously abstained from voting).

Read more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence
http://www.theweek.co.uk/us/59277/independence-day-what-america-celebrates-on-4-july#ixzz36URKJn86

Licensed-2-Kill:
wow.... Is ds jst how dumb u always ar or ds hapn to jst b a special occasion?

Licensed-2-Kill:
wot ar u A pry3 student ..... U ar wot aristotle cald d "apetite" class....always content wt little nd mediocrity...... I shld b mad at u buh instead I feel sympathetic alot for wot u cld hv done to b curse wt ds kinda pathetic thinkin faculty

Wicked...

jobsat34: and a tactically sound coach would have dropped Yobo, Mikel n......

Definitely including Ameobi and co...

Alekside!


I think Mandzukic is available and should be a good replacement for Suarez...

awesome_t: I have given you a name already...CLEMENS WESTERHOF...if you don't agree with me, watch SE's USA 94 games and compare it with the ones SE played at Brazil, you will get your answer.

Youtube can't give the excitement you feel while watching... --- Its only if he watched the "Keshi led 1994 team" played live that he could realize how deep Nigeria has fallen over 2 decades...

coded01: A Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is serving a life sentence for trying to blow up a US-bound airliner on December 25, 2009 with explosives hidden in his underwear.

When i remember this! I smh...


Why can't Nigerians be recognized for fighting against terrorism not supporting it...

bykebyke: Next Season...



Chieee

Blood Bath

We dey wait oh...

Travellers flying to the United States from Europe and the Middle East face tighter airport security checks from Thursday due to fears extremist Muslim groups are making new explosives able to slip by standard checks.

The measures threaten fresh disruptions for passengers at the start of the summer holiday season and will affect some direct flights to the US.
Officials declined to say if they had uncovered a specific plot.

But the move comes amid increased concern among Western intelligence services that Islamist fighters who go to Syria with European passports could pose a security risk on their return.

The announcement of the extra checks on direct flights from some overseas airports to the US was made by US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson Wednesday.

“We are sharing recent and relevant information with our foreign allies and are consulting the aviation industry,” Johnson said in a statement.
The airports are located in the Middle East and Europe and were targeted “based on real-time intelligence”, according to an official at the
Department of Homeland Security who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Britain confirmed it is bolstering security at its airports in response.

The move came before the US Independence Day celebrations on Friday.

On Sunday, US President Barack Obama warned that “battle-hardened” Europeans who embrace jihad in Syria and Iraq threaten the United
States because their passports mean they can enter his country without a visa.
- ‘Credible new threats’ -

Despite the increased checks, Britain said the international terror threat level issued by security service MI5 remained unchanged at substantial, the third highest grade out of five, where it has been since July 2011.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said that extra security measures were the right response to “credible new threats”.

“It’s very important that we work — as we do — with our American partners and indeed with other countries around the world so that where credible new threats are identified, a response is then implemented in airports around the world,” Clegg told ITV television.

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin insisted to Sky News that passengers should not face “significant delays”.

The Department for Transport did not comment in detail on the nature of the security searches.
London’s Heathrow airport — the world’s busiest international air hub — said that to reveal the details “would be very helpful for the people who want to pass through the system”.

Aviation security expert Philip Baum told Sky the added checks would likely mean an increase in random searches and the number of passengers being asked to remove their shoes at security.

Passengers in Britain have long faced tight security measures at airports following high-profile threats including a failed attempt by British “shoe bomber” Richard Reid to blow up a US-bound flight in 2001.

Security was further tightened after a plot to blow up “liquid bombs” on transatlantic flights was uncovered in 2006.

Ben Friedman, a defence and homeland security expert at the Cato Institute think-tank in the US, told the BBC that fears had been raised over people with European passports who were fighting in Syria.

But he noted that previous attempts by Yemeni bomb makers to blow up planes had been unsuccessful.

“While we want to be prudent and cautious… these guys are serial failures,” he added.

A Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is serving a life sentence for trying to blow up a US-bound airliner on December 25, 2009 with explosives hidden in his underwear.

US officials said the botched plot was the work of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen.

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/travellers-us-face-tighter-airport-security/#sthash.6ofCn10X.dpuf

ddippset: mascherano surely has got attitude. But he shouldn't be in the first team. Not at CB and not at DM cus it's busquets over him. He should just be a cover up for both DM and CB. He can't be captain. I am very sure it will be iniesta or pique.

I agree with you...

ddippset: lwkmd. My brother you just beat me to this comment. This byke byke is a very funny chap. Lol. He's been ridiculous all day, such a killjoy. Lol, bartra plus marquinhos! Bench busi and pique. Is that what he wants for us? Dev1l is a l1ar.

Its easy to find and fish them traitors out... ---- Byke byke you are hereby sent to your rightful thread...


No scatter formation for us for here jare...

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has said that Nigeria is suffering greater carnage at the hands of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, than it did during the country’s 30-month civil war.

Soyinka, however, said the Boko Haram insurgency had made the country’s break-up less likely.

He said this in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

Soyinka said the horrors inflicted by the Boko Haram insurgents had shown Nigerians across the mostly Muslim north and Christian south that sticking together might be the only way to avoid even greater sectarian slaughter.

Nigeria fought a bloody civil war between 1967 and 1970 to stop the secession attempt by the Igbo of the present South-East zone.

The Nobel laureate said, “We have never been confronted with butchery on this scale, even during the civil war.

“There were atrocities (during Biafra) but we never had such a near predictable level of carnage and this is what is horrifying.”

A million people died during the Biafra war, though mostly through starvation and illness, rather than violence.

Boko Haram’s five-year-old struggle to carve out an Islamic state from its bases in the North-East has become increasingly bloody, with near daily attacks killing many thousands.

The conflict’s growing intensity has led Nigerian commentators to predict it may split the country, 100 years after British colonial rulers cobbled Nigeria together from their northern and southern protectorates.

“I think ironically it’s less likely now. For the first time, a sense of belonging is predominating. It’s either we stick together now or we break up, and we know it would be not in a pleasant way,” Soyinka said.

Boko Haram’s abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, on April 14 drew unprecedented international attention to the insurgency and pledges of aid from Western powers, but violence has worsened.

The sect’s fighters frequently massacre whole villages, gunning down fleeing residents and burning their homes.

The insurgents on Sunday returned to the Chibok Local Government Area, attacking churches and worshippers during worship in Kwada, Kautikari and Kanagau communities. On Tuesday, the insurgents bombed a popular market in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, from where the sect started off its campaign of violence in 2009.

Soyinka said fewer people were shrugging off Boko Haram’s menace.

“It’s almost unthinkable to say: ‘well, let’s leave them to their devices.’ Very few people are thinking that way,” he said.

Attacks spreading southwards, including three bombings in the Federal Capital Territory since April, showed it was not a just a northern problem.

Soyinka said, “The (Boko Haram) forces that would like to see this nation break up are the very forces which will not be satisfied having their enclave.

“(We) are confronted with an enemy that will never be satisfied with the space it has.

“When the spectre of Sharia first came up, for political reasons, this was allowed to hold, instead of the president defending the constitution.”

He sees both Christianity and Islam as foreign impositions.

“We cannot ignore the negative impacts which both have had on African society. They are imperialist forces: intervening, arrogant. Modern Africa has been distorted,” he told Reuters.

He added that while the leadership of Boko Haram needed to be “decapitated completely”, little had been done to present an alternative ideological vision to their “deluded” followers, driven largely by economic destitution and despair.

http://www.punchng.com/news/nigerias-break-up-less-likely-says-soyinka/

andyanders: Keshi is just a waste and should just go.

Thank you very much...

Obiagu1: Answer my question, what coach was better than Keshi in Nigerian history?

Without Enyeama in goal!

We probably would have ended up in the last position! -- Bitter but true~

Obiagu1: [size=16pt]Can someone name a coach that performed better than Stephen Keshi in Nigerian history?[/size]

Can you please imagine Ejide replacing Enyeama for the Word Cup games and you can guess if everyone won't call for Keshi's head?

bykebyke: Won't it be better to bench pique+busquets


Then Marquinhos+ Bartra.... with Mascherano starting as a DM!!

Like i initially predicted, you act like a Real Madrid fan in disguise!


How on earth do you want this to happen? ---- Barca can kiss every title good-bye...

honeric01: And become a starter? heck no, i rather we use Pique + Bartra and have him come in as substitute.

Formation should look this way

............................ Bravo

Cuadardo................ Pique ................. Bartra ................. Alba.....................


........... Ratikic ........... ..Busquet ............................ Iniesta

.................... Messi

................. Suarez ................... Neymar

When did Bartra become so reliable...


Abeg oh! The more i see Bartra in this formation, the more he reminds me of Bale! Haha...

bykebyke: Liga fixtures aren't out yet

Person blood is hot...


Relax, let Messi come back with the trophy 1st...

alekside: Kezman, Mutu, Shevchenko, Crespo, Torrid... The list goes on

My guy, i decided not to go into names because we won't stop quoting...

shadrach77: Yobo is even good. How can any sensible coach take Shola Ameobi to the World Cup? Shola Ameobi who scored 3 goals in 2 years for Newcastle. Why?

Its painful!


Why leave Ikechukwu Uche who scored 14 goals for Villareal last season in Spain Top Division having led his team to the 6th position for a Shola Ameobi who scored 3 goals in 2 years for Newcastle that finished in the 12th position last season?


Yet some people would come on here defending him... --- Haba! Smh...


As for the defenders, i learnt he left fit ones for injured ones in the name of what

alekside: He'd be the reincarnation of Kezman

Before Chelsea, he was a promising striker but since he arrived @ Chelsea, he has been cluless and since he left, no one has heard of him!

alekside: That's why I pity Diego Costa for making his move. Would be sweet and painful seeing him go the Torres route

The World Cup Experience already shown the fever! --- No single shot on target in 2 games @ the World Cup...

alekside: Yeah, it's every player's dream to play for either Barca or Madrid. that's why I'm not faulting the guy, unlike Torrid who left us for Chelski

Based on history since Mourinho initially took over as Chelsea coach in 2004, promising players' careers are either tarnished or prone to injuries and as for the established players, they are soon forgotten...

Chelsea isn't a club for ambitious players or else ... --- Where players are trained to be school-boys defenders...


Everybody "Pack the bus" jare...

cirmuell: yeah right, take a flight now and go ask for 1sec of Bill gate's time.(just to snap with him)

Wicked...


Man neva see food chop na human being next to .................

saasala: With my lame analysis, i seem not to have an iota idea what the game of football entails. The same Ike Uche was at the Nations Cup in 2013 and didnt make any meaningful impact. Without him, the lads succeeded. He jetted back to his club and started scoring goals. This shows that he has his club in his heart than his country. Joseph Yobo performed well at this world cup, and as for the own goal, anyone in the world can do that.

I hear you sir!

bykebyke: Or just give us Sterling + Agger.. Take Sanchez free

Wicked...

alekside: Should be "I doubt if Barca's £80m would be good enough to lure him..."

As much as i support Liverpool, i strongly believe its every dream of an ambitious player to play for Barcelona whether any fan likes it or not... ---- So if its left to players alone to decide where they prefer to play .... --- Barcelona FC would be chorused a million times...

bykebyke: This is where

Kareem Benzema comes to mind!!!

As much as a few clubs would rush to buy him i don't see him as a 20 goal-bound striker! --- Liverpool should not give it a thought...

alekside: The problem is finding one that can easily replace Suarez. All we can do now is to sign 2 or 3 quality players that can help mo litigate the effect of Suarez loss.

I think James Rodriguez should be ideal but i doubt if Liverpool would be strong enough to lure him amid other wealthy competitors...

alekside: I doubt we'd ever go for Balotelli. Just some lazy Jornos linking him with Liverpool.

Make we just handle dat una £80m first We'd know who to buy