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Former Governor Tinubu did not justify his time as the Executive Governor of Lagos State. His 8 years at the helm of affairs in Lagos brought the city to her knees. I wept for Lagos like I never did for my home state because Lagos is Nigeria. A failed Lagos is a failed Nigeria, and Tinubu nearly finished the state. Now, kettle is calling pot black. Thank God for Fashola, who resurrected the city and gave it life. Can any one show me anything to justify Tinubu's time except a few roads in Isale-Eko done at God Knows how much. The old man should just retire completely, and stop distracting those working. At the right time, proper evaluation will be done of them. Abeg, Asuwaju, go rest and chop your loot

Did you know Lagos state was denied Govt allocation for 6 yrs out of Tinubus 8yr reign?

Tell me how many states would survive if allocation was denied them for 6 months alone

wetin the guest house go be for?

See question!! Put dem for guest house first and see what wonders shall happen

Men you are also one of the guys I need to get in touch with my address. Please send me an email make I get your address. There is something we for discuss.

Money matters maybe.

Correct guy, You want to send me the money for rokiatus dowry? Then no wahala, the money go plenty gannnn

Dude, you said 'EPL Players have ALWAYS and WILL continue to fail'
Aren't they both in the q-finals with their teams?
Even Portsmouth's Boateng STILL dey wit ghana

Are you both on some xrated shekpe?

Whats their impact for their respective teams. Just like telling us Heurelho Gomez and Cesc Fabregas are still in the tournament

EPL supplied 117 players for the world cup, 22 are left(to be reduced to 19 by end of today) this includes perpetual bench warmers like Reina, Cesc, ferreira, Gomez, Ryan Babbel

Bundesliga supplied 84 and about 35 are still left

From thief matter to love wan tin tin between Akwasi and Rokiatu.

NL suppose get guest house for short time sef.

RVP, Dirk Kuyt and the Netherlands are in the q-finals dumbo

I wonder which one of you's worse off

Lol. Those irrelevant players? Why not mention how influential Fabregas and Heurelho Gomes have been for their countries

How do some teams get such easy passage and Germany has to play strong teams like Argentina, Ghana and Serbia

Messi and the argies are in the quarter finals
RVP and Holland are in the quarter finals

So wetin be your point again?

Have the german kids won the world cup?

Where are the English kids and especially where are the Assanal kids.

Robben did more in 45 mins than varapist did in 4 games.

Does Messi play in the premier league and has RVP shined thus far?

You have to understand you are discussing with GAYYners, They have an IQ in the negatives. How does Messi explain the sham called Arsenal academy,

Dont be suprised if they bring Joe Frazier, Tonga Kid, Lady Gaga and Floyyd Mayweather into the argument to prove that the Assanal academy is not a failed project

We saw how a team of 23 EPL fared at the world cup.

No Bundesliga Owen hargreaves to bail them out, La Liga Gary Lineker,

@dayo
Messi @ 21/22 has won Ballon D'or, WPOTY, 6 trophies in a single season
Firelord Ozai  Ozil,Muller. .how many of those retards you call players have won anything? or have EVEN been recognised by FIFA

Messi lol, Who can compare to Messi, Can Kwara State FA be proud to even mention Wankott, Wheelchair, ramsey, Djourou, Senderos, Owusu Abeyie, Arturo Lupoli, Karbasiyoon not to talk of FIFA.

GAYYners are naturally brainless, Its easier to find a virgin in a brothel than find a sensible GAYYner

Lols

Fabregas? Over whom? Schweinsteiger? Is he mad? Has he been able to start for Spain? I can also say Rabiu Afolabi would start for Brazil

Unless fabregas wants to play defence then he can bench Boateng or Mertersacker.

At best he would be a sub when Schweinsteiger is injured. No wonder a Fabregas led team hasnt won any trophy at club level

Tell us which of these Gayyner youths are doing anything meaningful in the world cup as at today

England’s elimination ritual
By Simon Kuper

Published: June 22 2010 21:48 | Last updated: June 22 2010 21:48



“It was disbelief,” England’s midfielder Alan Ball summed up the mood in the team’s dressing room after West Germany knocked them out of the World Cup in 1970. England’s quadrennial elimination is one of the country’s few surviving national rituals.

It may happen in Port Elizabeth today: England need to beat Slovenia to be certain of reaching the second round. It is time to establish whether, on this occasion, each phase of the ritual has been respected.

Phase one: England enter the World Cup certain they will win it.

Alf Ramsey, the only English manager to win the trophy, forecast the victory of 1966. But his prescience becomes less impressive when you realise that almost every England manager forecast victory in the World Cup, including Ramsey both times he didn’t win.
Fabio Capello, England’s manager at least until this afternoon, observed this ritual. “My team, the England team, we can beat all the teams,” he said last month. Like all his predecessors, Capello spoke for a confident nation.



Phase two: the campaign is upended by a freakish piece of bad luck that the English conclude could only happen to them.

Here the current campaign breaks with ritual. Normally, the freakish bad luck happens in a later round: the tummy bug that felled keeper Gordon Banks in 1970, Diego Maradona’s “Hand of God” in 1986, or David Beckham’s red card in 1998. This time, it came only 40 minutes into England’s tournament: the soft US shot that trickled through Robert Green’s hands into the net.


Phase three: England lose to a former wartime enemy.

In five of their last seven World Cups, they went out against either Germany or Argentina. The matches fit seamlessly into the British tabloid view of history, except for the outcome. England’s defeats to Germany, because of their grandiose yet repetitious character, are tragicomic. By contrast, elimination against a ski-mad country of 2m people would be merely comic (if you aren’t English). To honour ritual, England need to revive national hubris by triumphing against Slovenia, before losing to Germany in the second round this weekend, ideally on penalties. (this time was even better)



Phase four: the nation decides the team is spoiled, overpaid and unpatriotic.

For some players “the triple lion badge of England could be three old tabby cats”, lamented the Daily Express in 1966, and possibly again tomorrow. The fan who wandered into the English changing-room and castigated the players for drawing against Algeria on Friday night felt the same way. “Most of them didn’t even try,” Pavlos Joseph said afterwards.

However, these ritual denunciations are coming too early. By tradition, English hubris swells to unfathomable levels before being punctured.



Phase five: a scapegoat is found.

Usually this only happens post-elimination, but the current squabble between Capello and his ousted captain John Terry is best understood as early jockeying to assign the role. Capello runs the greater risk. Ritually, England’s scapegoat is never an outfield player who has “battled” all match. Even if the player directly caused the elimination by missing a penalty, he is a “hero”. The ideal scapegoat is either a perfidious foreigner – Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo in 2006 – or an English management figure, such as chief selector Joe Mears in 1958. Capello’s bad luck is to be both foreigner and management figure.



Phase six: England enter the next World Cup certain they will win it.

It’s widely believed that England’s eliminations cause misery. In fact, the ritual provides comfort, by drawing the nation together, and connecting English past with present. That’s why it’s essential that the ritual sequence be respected. Here’s to England-Germany this weekend.

Simon Kuper is co-author of Why England Lose: & Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained (HarperSport, £7.99)

They are in phase 4 going to phase 5 right now. What a brilliant article

He's brilliant in a club shirt, and hopeless in an England shirt. 0 goals 0 assists, 2 World Cups.

His international goals: 1 against Argentina (friendly) 1 against Netherlands (friendly) all others? Croatia, Russia, Andorra, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Estonia, Slovakia, Iceland, Denmark, he's a fraud!

Rooney has never scored a competitive international goal against one of the top nine countries in world football, Gerrard likewise since his maiden England goal against Germany back in 2001.

Latest campaign

Brainless chic2penis don come again.

The 2 teams started at 0-0 what was England looking at that made them go 2 goals down in 30mins?

Celebrate mediocrity.

No be some clubs get Muller and Ozil?

Robbed by whom?

They didnt bag any red card, there was no offside call, they didnt play agains overaged players and they conceded 4 clean goals

Senseless Gayyners are at it again.

Tell us how this EPL players are faring at the world cup.  Rooney, Drogba, Gerrard, Lampard, Yakubu etc

Robben in one game has outshine van despoiler. Ozil and Muller are far ahead of any EPL player right now. Fabregas cant even start for his country.

Tell us which of these Gayyner youths are doing anything meaningful in the world cup as at today

Being brainless is a requirement to be a GAYYner

No be small thing o

Where is beaf, Sagamite, cohomology and other peace lovers?

^^ You no dey hear word,

Some phrases are only reserved for the Israelis, The peace advocates suddenly dissapeared

Rice with beef stew cost about 20 Naira. Each piece of meat 5 Naira

You suppose fear dat kain food, Most likely na Lizard meat dem go serve you for 5Naira and the 20Naira rice go be stone filled

I told you in 6 billion people in the world, less than 20 would miss that chance and Yak was one of them

^^ You mean the picture or the real car itself?

You no fit buy her hummer every year?

England who is your daddy?

Why did you modify it?

Brazil vs Holland would be a cracker

Dayo, dont worry. Your own na another problem. I get solution for it. Meet me at the usual spot at 2am.

What do you have to offer at the said place and time?

@ajali, I can imagine. It would be fireworks and fun putting the 3 rats in their place

Kobo na Ndigbo chic

LOL.

I told you when they are in their community they are very dangerous probably more than Akatas sef