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Toomaxi: If he wins, it means death sentence fo him,

How

FYI, the blog has now hit 1000 pageviews. I'm targeting 2,000 by next week

Nomski0: Its either Madrid has too much money to throw away or they've good completely nuts.
Bale has nothing comparable with Cristiano....... Madrid should open a charity in some third world country and donate all these cash to instead of wasting it on Bale.

I wonder o. They don't know what to do with money again

Jonathan now has the strongest cabinet since he assumed office in 2010. Ngozi, Dieziani Madueke, Prof. Nebo, Maku, Aganga, Odua, Chukwu etc. Jonathan really wants to make Nigeria work, but detractors are everywhere.

I guess he will win the presidential as well

Oooooooooooooooooo. Wow. This is so cool. I'm so loving this

And please why does nonsensical topics keep popping up on the front page when there are better topics in other categories apart from celebrities and politics?

Wow! What a combo: Hilda and Eucharia.

Afam4eva: Can you name one British footballer that is worth more than that and tell me why you think so. There's a reason why British footballers don't attract foreign clubs cos they're not just good enough.

Frank Lampard! At least goals would be guaranteed

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's party has won a huge majority in parliament in this week's elections, officials say.

With most seats declared, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission said Zanu-PF had won 137 seats in the 210-seat chamber, just short of two-thirds.

Results in the presidential race have yet to be announced.

Mr Mugabe's main rival, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, has already dismissed the election as "a sham".

Mr Tsvangirai, 61, who heads the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and is running for president against Mr Mugabe, said the vote was "null and void".

A local monitoring group has also said that the poll was "seriously compromised".

However, the two main observer groups have broadly endorsed the election, saying it was free and peaceful.

Earlier reports from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) said Zanu-PF had won 142 seats but this was later corrected following some recounts.

The AFP news agency reports that 186 seats have been declared with 24 results still to come.

If Zanu-PF clinches a two-thirds majority it will be able to change Zimbabwe's constitution.

Uneasy coalition
African Union (AU) mission head Olusegun Obasanjo dismissed the complaints of fraud, saying the election was fair and free "from the campaigning point of view".

He acknowledged incidents "that could have been avoided and even tended to have breached the law" but added: "All in all, up to the close of the polls, we do not believe that these incidences (incidents) will amount to the result not representing the will of the people."

The former Nigerian president added: "I have never seen an election that is perfect. The process continues and we have to limit our comments."

Monitors from the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) described the elections as "free and peaceful" but said it was too early to call them fair.

The AU assessment sharply contrasted to that of the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) - the largest group of domestic monitors with some 7,000 people on the ground.

It said on Thursday that the elections were "seriously compromised", with as many as one million people unable to cast their ballots.

The ZESN said potential voters were much more likely to be turned away from polling stations in urban areas, where support for Mr Tsvangirai is strong, than in President Mugabe's rural strongholds.

The group also alleged significant irregularities before the poll. It said that 99.7% of rural voters were registered on the electoral roll in June compared with only 67.9% of urban voters.

Zanu-PF and the MDC have formed an uneasy coalition government since 2009. That deal ended deadly violence that erupted after a disputed presidential poll the previous year.

Mr Mugabe, 89, is running for a seventh term.

His Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa said on Friday that Zanu-PF was "headed for an unprecedented landslide".

"If anyone is dissatisfied, the courts are there. I invite Tsvangirai to go to court if he has any grounds to justify what he has been saying,'' he told journalists.

Under Zimbabwean law, seven days are set aside for legal challenges with another two days for rulings to be made. After that, the swearing-in of a new government takes place.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23554443

Now do you think that Bale is worth that much?

Now, let's compare Cristiano Ronaldo's individual statistics in the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons. He netted 26 goals for Manchester United in 2007-08 and 42 goals in the season before and contributed a total of 16 assists. He wore the Red Devils' shirt in 103 matches. Those stats give him a combined goal and assist rate of 0.82. For Portugal - which he now captains - he found the back of the net 7 times from 2007 to 2009. During that period, he represented his nation in the 2008 Euros (scoring once and assisting once), Euro qualifiers and World Cup qualifiers.

Coming to club football, he won the FA Community Shield in 2007, Champions League at the end of the 2008 campaign along with the English Premier League. He added the FIFA Club World Cup midway through the 2008-09 season. He rounded things off with the 2008-09 Carling Cup. In the latter season he reached the Champions League finals with Manchester United, but they were beaten by Lionel Messi's Barcelona.

Individual awards for the two seasons:
Barclays Player of the Year: 2007–08
Premier League Player of the Month: January 2008, March 2008
Premier League Golden Boot: 2007–08
Barclays Merit Award: 2007–08
UEFA Champions League Topscorer: 2007–08
UEFA Club Forward of the Year: 2007–08
UEFA Club Footballer of the Year: 2007–08
FIFA Club World Cup Silver Ball: 2008
Ballon d'Or: 2008
FIFA World Player of the Year: 2008
FIFPro World Player of the Year: 2008
Onze d'Or: 2008
World Soccer Player of the Year: 2008
PFA Premier League Team of the Year: 2007–08, 2008–09
European Golden Shoe: 2007–08
PFA Players' Player of the Year: 2007–08
PFA Fans' Player of the Year: 2007–08
FWA Footballer of the Year: 2007-2008
UEFA Team of the Year: 2007, 2008
FIFA FIFPro World XI: 2007, 2008
Portuguese Footballer of the Year: 2007, 2008

http://wearebluesforever..com/2013/08/how-much-is-gareth-bale-worth.html

Last season, Gareth Bale scored a total of 26 goals for Tottenham Hotspur (and 12 in the season before) and contributed 10 assists (14 in the 2011-12 season). The number of games he played for Spurs during those two seasons was 86. This gives us a combined goal and assist rate of 0.72. For his country Wales, from 2011 to 2013, he has so far netted 8 goals. The only major competition he played with them was the European championship qualifiers.

In Tottenham Hotspur, he only participated in the Europa League, Europe's second tier of continental football. His team had actually qualified for the UEFA Champions League by the end of their 2011-12 campaign and they were cautiously popping some bottles of Champagne to congratulate themselves, until their hopes were dashed days later courtesy of Chelsea's (who had finished sixth in the league that season) victory over Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena to become the champions of Europe. He won nothing at both club and international levels of soccer during this period.

Personal achievements in the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons:

Wales Player of the Year Award: 2011
Premier League PFA Team of the Year: 2011–12, 2012–13
FWA Footballer of the Year: 2012–13
PFA Players' Player of the Year: 2012–13
PFA Young Player of the Year: 2012–13
UEFA Team of the Year: 2011
Premier League Player of the Month: January 2012, February 2013


http://wearebluesforever..com/2013/08/how-much-is-gareth-bale-worth.html

mikeywise: Wetin happen? sleep carry you last nite?

Lol, na bad etisalat network for where I dey. You know their network is usually crappy at night

Hell no, after comparing Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale you will find out that he isn't.

http://wearebluesforever..com/2013/08/how-much-is-gareth-bale-worth.html

Let's watch and see what happens

HBD Kanu, but truth be told, this guy looks well into his forties

Fashola and his shameless tricks will not work. Has he forgotten what he did to the Igbos living in Lagos?

Do we have any reason to believe him especially with what we had here in Nigeria in 1999, 2003 and 2007?

Speaking in the capital Harare on Friday, Mr Obasanjo said the elections were fair and free "from the campaigning point of view". The former Nigerian president admitted that there were "incidents that could have been avoided", but he stressed that the AU observers did not believe they could change the overall outcome of the poll. His assessment sharply contrasted to that by the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) - the largest group of domestic monitors.
It said on Thursday that the
elections were "seriously
compromised", with as many as a million people being unable to cast their ballots. The ZESN said potential voters were much more likely to be turned away from polling stations in urban areas, where support for Mr Tsvangirai is strong, than in President Mugabe's rural strongholds. The group also alleged significant registration irregularities before the poll.
But speaking to al-Jazeera, Mr
Obasanjo questioned ZESN's
conclusions, describing them as "not verifiable". He said he was satisfied that the apparent anomalies between
registration between urban and rural voters mentioned by ZESN had been explained by the registrar-general, who had the accurate figures for birth and death. Mr Obasanjo also said that Mr Tsvangirai's camp should have addressed concerns about the electoral roll before the vote - not after.

http://bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23546050

Watch video highlights here in case you missed the match
http://wearebluesforever..com/2013/08/guinness-international-champions-cup_2.html

It's a lie. They are still in negotiations