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Sports › Re: Nigeria Female National Teams' Thread by daveP(m): 3:57pm On Jan 24
So we've lost Evelyn and Ayo all in one month? Who else is about to piunn due to incompetence by coach and bosses? cry
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 3:55pm On Jan 24
Goke7:
Most of them haven’t built anything much post playing career!

Sometimes it’s difficult to believe that a Mike emenalo was among this 94 set. The difference is too clear!
I understand many still carry PTSD and pent up anger. But what's with the hilarious statement like asif na only dem dey see things? Even Mike no wan near Nigeria sef. Chai. Buttressing my point on Ex-Ints that did assistant coach jobs.
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 3:37pm On Jan 24
The respect accorded the 94 set is fading off faster due to the foolish talk coming out their mouth in the last 2years.


I know it's not all but fo they have some unaware level of cognitive dissonance up their sleeves or what? undecided
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 3:35pm On Jan 24
TheSuperNerd:
Haaland benched?? Na wa ooo.

Elyte89, how far naa... grin
008 need not happen
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 12:16am On Jan 24
Mujtahida:
Appears he's posted the entire video. I can't watch that drivel. I'd feel like exploding.
I watched a lil and stopped. Then some guy summarized it on X and i was grateful cos it was exactly what i was expecting someone like him to say. Smh
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 12:02am On Jan 22
oloriooko:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwB-iPkMq8A?t=249

Rightly said by Thierry Henry, the problem of the AFCON is that the referees are not up to the standard of the tournament, in short, the referees gave AFCON bad name
Na why i love igwe be dis. I believe wenger taught him well all rounda. Wenger too would have said exact stuff.


The shadow though is the refs are mere puppets to the masters that want a desired outcome no matter how good or bad a team on pitch is.

Next we have nobodies doing ref jobs. They can't register themselves for outstanding and nostalgic officiating in the positive way. See Collina. No african ref has made us forget that man cos Igwe is right. Issa sy that did Algeria match has what it takes to be memorable by going up the ladder. Salema for the women's football too. But it looks like they all just hang and fade off. Nigeria can't even plan to have one at the WC to use to brag at least. Smh
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 11:43pm On Jan 21
TheSuperNerd:
Ademola Lookman assist by the way! 🔥🔥

Broken my ass. Thunder Roast Oliseh.
I wonder why he decided to do that 10mins clip. It was needless. Someone aside justice inspired that clip. He said some truths but clouded it with trash as well.

Only him

Enyeama
Mikel
Osimhen

He's definitely EMO-tional
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by daveP(m): 9:10pm On Jan 21
iamoyindamola:
He will need it
Wishing him the best. This is what dem heaven and Chido don miss now. Chai
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by daveP(m): 8:46pm On Jan 21
iamoyindamola:
Nwaneri at OM
more experience to his boots cool
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by daveP(m): 1:46pm On Jan 21
Is Arteta trying to rotate Odegaard and Eze across different cups? cry
Cos if Odegaard is for epl, wahala dey.

I didn't even notice at first until i saw slowmo replays and I'll blame Zubi for that sucic goal more than Skelly. He should be rushing to clear instead of slowly down, enabling space for him to shoot. What's that bent knee block sef? undecided

Martinelli is really taking this season ucl personal. Saka is yet to gbera till now. Worrying.


These tackles though.... Acerbic acid

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by daveP(m): 11:12am On Jan 21
BlueRayDick:
We are literally cruising in all 4 competitions we are playing in this season.

In the last few days we've played 4 away games at Portsmouth, Chelsea, Nottingham and Inter Milan stadiums across different competitions. Somehow we've managed to come out with 3 wins and 1 draw.

Love him or hate him, Arsenal under Arteta this season is actually doing well and above his peers..

Ad much as the recent EPL results were disappointing, we should also acknowledge the fact that we've conceded the least goal in the EPL which means our defence is working 24/7. We just need our attack to score as much as they can and the last 16 games of the EPL will see us lifting the trophy. 🥰
Its actually not easy for real. These are fixtures Arteta would complain about season's ago. But na kpim this time. Squad depth or just getting better.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by daveP(m): 11:46pm On Jan 20
germaphobe:
S/O to mosquera, coming back from injury and still putting up a fighting spirit.
Gyokeres!!!! Whoever starts up front against utd should be sharp enough to take chances. Though that second chance should have been taken better shaa.
Compared to his last two games MLS is coming up.
Merino was massive today too.
S/O to Jesus, short man scoring a header grin
because of that infinity sliding that GJ gave Dalot that year, i prefer GJ to start. Carrick must sha not be allowed to do a triple on Arteta abeg. Na Emirates sha.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by daveP(m): 11:45pm On Jan 20
So is the Eze problem losing the ball easily b2b? Omo. E be like e don turn fight at this level.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by daveP(m): 10:58pm On Jan 20
Triple G night. If not that we don get Cala, i for say make we steal this Bastoni. His crosses ar muah. GJ dey v3x cos he wanted a hattrick. Rice should be protected abeg. That guy is now so so integral to our entire setup. He runs his lungs out every game compared to his midfielders. Revenge complete on Inter. Kaira better get ready to see Eze score.
Politics › Re: Pro-wike Rivers Lawmakers Received N350m For Constituency Projects Never Done by daveP(m): 10:13pm On Jan 20
If Nigeria works tomorrow, this state might be the poorest of the poor because of the stinking mediocrity of its so called leaders.
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 11:11am On Jan 19
semid4lyfe:
This is nonsense. Writer contradicted himself. I am pained that I read it to the end.

Also, the soccernittygritty guy is not well informed because Tunisia has since appointed a new coach in Sabri Lamouchi and that door is closed to Eric Chelle.

And to think this was one of the guys that criticized the NFF for appointing Chelle.



Anyways. from the emboldened quote above, I know this is a paid PR job to launder the ability of local coaches.

Rubbish.
The write up is biased. It wants Chelle out of the way so a Naija local coach can take over. 😂

Elephant in the room indeed!!

Many of us on this thread are critically better at writing a piece on such situation than that stuff there.


I'll keep advocating for the Keshi and Amuneke route for any potential local manager that want to coach SE one day. Let them prove their acumen on the Afcon stage and they'll get enough regard to make them available for all jobs even if SE job is not available.


But they always want to queue and wait for internal chaos so they'll say God don butter dia bread
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 11:02am On Jan 19
mekabuachi:
Hakimi wanted to take the penalty, and there is at least 90% chance hakimi would easily score
Why did he have to give it to daiz?😑💀
Omo this thing no still clear
Glory now. If Diaz score he's the poster boy of the tournament and candidate for apoty. That's why
Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by daveP(m): 11:01am On Jan 19
villagereporter:
..

CAF through Mosétpè has finally destroyed d beautiful game of football in Africa. What a shambolic final.

anyways sha…i still no go believe say na deliberate miss
That's not a deliberate miss. Na for our own mind we dey reason say Morocco go wan do bigger man on top pitch when they're 20mins away from breaking a 50years record. Lol.

Mendy just got smarter.


This is the worst afcon ever and I can't even jubilate that senegal won it still.


You need to see a Motsepe face as the entire stadium was empty before trophy presentation. This is why ticketing must be balanced in a football tournament. I heard the Senegalese fans only got 4k tickets in such a huge stadium. Shameful


Moroccans are terrible hosts.


APOTY joined in that towel nonsense is shameful. Caf won't punish them too. But they sabi punish Samuel Eto'o.


My own crux now is if it were Nigeria that staged that walk out, the fans will support the decision but you see those 94 Ex-Ints and NFF payroll sport journalists, dem go rain fire on them for such. Next day we go see article upon articles in our dailies and they'll blast them and avoid raining fire on CAF or the hosts.


Infact i know 3 particular journos that will comparehe 80s and 90s set camp behavior with the current one like Charles did. 😂


We've gotten used to swallowing nonsense that we've forgotten how to say just the truth.


I hear two journos were found dead in their hotel rooms. Their naija colleagues no go reason that one now o. We no go see article about safety, especially that nonsense that Motsepe did at Osasu.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by daveP(m): 11:59pm On Jan 18
Roland17:
Is this new? We saw this same rubbish last season. Zero sense of urgency whenever we need a goal. Rice and Saliba were just passing between each other for nearly 20 seconds..
Not new atall. Just that many don't want it to be talked about. Notice how teams no longer press when that happens. Faux control. Mental stress will soon take over. Lol.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by daveP(m): 9:48pm On Jan 18
One guy was vexed at how we needed a goal but the backline were romancing the ball at the dying minute. If anything at all i pray that level of urgency changes this new year. My fren load that ball up up into the box. Using 2mins of 4 to do 22 passes at the back. Kilode now.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by daveP(m): 6:18pm On Jan 18
MSGAMBLE9:
E go be 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.....
https://x.com/i/status/2012817385607053689
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by daveP(m): 12:49am On Jan 18
MSGAMBLE9:
Even if we must drop points, this SIWES like decision making that seems like Sabotaging shouldn't be the order of the day after 6 years of IT.... Not knowing scale of preferences or Priorities after 6 years is Gross Misconduct...

We should be able to move forward from Near-It tag....
Those comfy with top spot think its secured. Until that May nothing is.

My own is where was that ruthlessness we used to tear Villa apart for that loss? Where did it go to?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by daveP(m): 12:39am On Jan 18
MSGAMBLE9:
They just said they will or want to drop more points going forward in order to shame Apari with trophyless again 🤣🤣🤣🤣..... God abeg

With this Mentality, it would be a Miracle / Lucky to bring back the club golden days...
🚨Burnley have scored against Liverpool, yet Arsenal couldn’t manage even one goal against them.

🔸️Arteta often shows too much respect to big teams, and I hope it doesn’t cost us.

🔸️Look at the intensity with which Manchester United attacked City today — if it were Arteta, he would likely play it safe instead.
We need to stop over-respecting top teams and be more ruthless. That’s exactly why we have squad depth.

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No more line breaking pass and we know the guy that has 8GA before Odegaard return was doing the breaking through.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by daveP(m): 12:33am On Jan 18
we are top of the league not only because we are doing our part but because rivals also are dropping form and we aren't capitalizing. Until they don't
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by daveP(m): 12:30am On Jan 18
MSGAMBLE9:
They say he overtake Liverpool 6 points lead, so we should him for that by praising him for throwing / Sabotaging away 9 points lead...

When we were dropping points last season, Liverpool kept on winning that at a time e reach 14 points gap between us... We should be happy or be contended it's 7 points instead of 11

Come on....
Last season draw soup ruined everything. 13 abi 14 draws. I still cringe when i see that.

Team get full squad, they leave gap. We get squad but we dey drop points. No mind them. Those are fans that are comfy with status quo. Champion mentality is alien to such level of rigidity or comfort.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by daveP(m): 12:27am On Jan 18
Shegzdave:
Abeg help me check, I wan see if Eze start most of those games

A friend needs that info for a thesis please
I go check. I sha know say Odegaard no dey.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by daveP(m): 12:18am On Jan 18
These English fans are more crazier than us in naija. They speak it as it is.

Many are posting run of games without odegaard where na Ws full am and the run of games with him. Big difference dey.

Im on an X space right now and im just laughing. Some stuff i didn't even notice...

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by daveP(m): 12:12am On Jan 18
Shegzdave:
Apart from that time he forgot to mark his man, I think that was when the bench started

It's how they try to blame the player when he's rusty after some time on the bench and starting players that should be riding bench but absolve Teta of the blame
Even if Arteta will cook towards the end, it doesn't wave away our current concerns. Like small gbasgbos and see the managers losing their jobs around us. Even Slot dey fear right now. For me the problem is this dropping deep to collect ball that Odegaard does. He will colet it and still be useless alongside the ball he collected. So what's the advantage of that?

Abi they should lure Iwobi from Fulham ni? grin undecided grin

Guy even defends better.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by daveP(m): 12:09am On Jan 18
Its like every since Odegaard started going on Injury, he comes back worse than his last available time. E no easy truly but if we wan run away with title, he needs a rival. We either jump into this market or accept to warm haram football from him.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by daveP(m): 12:07am On Jan 18
Shegzdave:
Don't use this one game to rate his overall game for us, players have bad days
Me sha dunno how to pretend. Some may complain in game week 30 but me, I'll say it now.
Yeah you're right actually. I just have to say it how it is. After all we dey call out Odegaard sef
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by daveP(m): 12:05am On Jan 18
Shegzdave:
Now that you pointed it out sef, what's the matter with Arteta and Eze and nobody should say it's tactics cause ordegard has been shit since his return from injury and Eze wan't so bad when he came to have been coming on in the 70 mins of the game now
Maybe the guy did something that Arteta adviced against and hence the warming of bench as discipline. Cos its definitely not injury and arteta is seeing Odegaard is worse(or maybe he doesn't. Na we fans Dey probably see am)

Soon we go dey complain of Rusty dusty as MLS and Nwaneri are right now.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by daveP(m): 12:03am On Jan 18
MSGAMBLE9:
You want me to pat mediocrity on the back for job well done? No, I don't do that....


Am a Fan not a Stan, notes the difference then you know me....
That's my problem with that side. They forget how resilient our rivals are. How will you already know what your opponent is capable off(City, Liverpool) but what they see what you're capable of is slipping off and increasing the excuses? They don't have that mental situation where "once arsenal stay top at so so and so game week, they've won the league. It's for slipping and sliding. That's see finish!!

We should be grateful cos we are top now? We've dropped 4points cos the last 2 teams dont deserve a point whatsoever but here we are. Players overall might be getting comfy cos manager isn't showing signs of change in approach. It's evident. We need to do better. Arteta needs to do better. Goalless twice??

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