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Subzero047:
Tactical change or not he gave everybody license to attack Iheanacho

Klopp would have done the complete opposite

Sportsmanship is a huge deal in the epl. Have you forgotten that Arsenal had to replay a game against Sheffield when Kanu did the same back in the day(he assisted Overmars)?
Same reaction back then.

Wait Nacho got subbed due to poor sportsmanship?? LMFAO!!

andrewbaba44:
Soldado spent more than a season nah

He played 52 Epl games

Yeah but Kane was introduced in his first season. Sherwood started playing Kane over him in his first season.

Utonwanne:
I was was told that he played youth football at a very old age, I mean VERY OLD.

I remember the famous tale of how Anderlecht put him on a nutritional diet to grow taller and instead he got fatter(or "wider" like my uncle would say).

andrewbaba44:
Bros if soldado has done well they will put faith on him

Why will they put faith on someone who can only score pk and not a normal goal ?

Most clubs would have given him another season. Tim Sherwood started introducing Kane in Soldado's first season and Poch reinforced it. Soldado didn't even get a full season lol...

jihday:
Soldado

Yep thanks. Soldado...

Subzero047:
Spurs

Spuds sounds better.. Forever in Arsenal's shadows.

Subzero047:
OK what is Spurds?

Tottenham

soetanoreoluwa:
The problem didn't start from first coup that happened ...first coup was just the results of the unresolved issues between NPC, NCNC and AG... Far back 1942

Till now issues still on

I agree. The coup further exacerbated it sha

soetanoreoluwa:
It is not about igbo... Tell me the region that hold her leader accountable?

Who are the people to hold leader accountable, people that is struggling to eat just one meal a day? citizen with no job? Citizens with crumbles ?

They believe so much in this poverty thread cos when you are living okay you will hold them accountable that is the reason they don't care about making life meaningful but they have forgotten that idle hand is an explosive in the hand of those that really know how to use them...

Well I am speaking as an Igbo man and all the ridiculous stereotypes some of us spew about other tribes.
Fact is its easy to just point to the North as the problem while conveniently letting our state government get away with murder.
If we want federalism/restructuring, we have to operate with that mindset.. Point fingers at ourselves first before we go a step further.
I'm tired of hearing about our enterprising spirit, egalitarianism, bla bla bla when our states don't show that.
I tell that to folks here when they start their foolishness with AAs too. Charity begins at home...

TheSuperNerd:
The bolded is part of the key lessons I wanted to point out with that pic. Faith in genuine young talents. One can never know how far such can go. This is Life. This is football.

Yep. Many coaches would've kept pushing with Soldado and Kane might have gone on another loan and his career might have turned out differently.

safarigirl:
Awo should have listened to Ojukwu and seceded when he had the opportunity, but we are here. A secession clause could have been removed at any point anyway.

You can't blame Awo that much tbh. He was just being pragmatic... The North had troops in the west and any illogical move would've been disastrous for them.
Ojukwu didn't have the time to wait...too much pressure plus the killing of Igbos made it necessary for him to make a move quickly.

TheSuperNerd:
On Ndidi's/Nacho's Leicester....

Saturday Throwback....


Once upon a time in the 2012/2013 season... Leicester had these two "current world class players" on the bench.



Nigel Person's Leicester that is....

Kane was around 19/20 at the time.

Vardy was like 25/26.

This is why in as much as I hate Spuds, I'll always respect Pochettino.
Dude didn't care that Spuds had spent 30m on Llorente. He put his faith in Kane and the rest is history.

Mujtahida:
I'd say this and drop the point so I don't derail the thread (my mind has been preoccupied in recent times by our national failures)

For me the reasons why they've held on to power for so long are history and sense of unity. Unity is so powerful a principle that when 5 fools unite, they'd defeat 10 divided wise men.

Our national failures is truly national - no part of the country is spared. I was in Lagos for the last NBA conference and I was truly embarrassed at the chaos and filth I saw. Lack of power, poor health care, bad roads, lack of social, poverty and infrastructural facilities are problems confronting us all as a people.

My issue however is with the ATTITUDE. I admit I might be wrong but I'd say that even though the south suffers poverty and its correlatives, it is not a condition that has been accepted. The people want more, they desire more and given a chance they'd push their governments in the direction of a better life. But in the North they seem quite at home with poverty. Like someone said they are contented. I have mulled over the reason why this is so but I cannot place my hands on it. Some say it's the prevalence of Islam. I do not agree. Almost all the Muslim dominated countries are prosperous nations. This thread will not allow me to talk about the great intellectual contributions of the Arab and Muslim world to world development. So I do not believe it is religion.

Our suffering is all man made. I see the suffering coming from a false structure. How can the States develop when key elements that drive development are in the exclusive legislative list?

https://www.nairaland.com/3945831/68-exclusive-list-items-made.

Let the country be restructured along the lines of the old regional models with modifications in tune with present day realities-- a weak center, no central military bodies, and police especially. So that the effects of bad or good governance can be localized. Not this present dysfunctional arrangement where in the name of One Nigeria we have all become almajiri

I agree with restructuring. Fiscal Federalism is the way to go...

tikristinimi21:
I really appreciate the part where you talked about ambition showing REAL progress. Truth is that even the southern folks are merely brandishing useless paper (certificates) as education. If our education cannot help develop us in our own region,what magic will it do even when we have the power. If the Igbos can be united about having a developed society and forget about this their Biafra nonsense, if they can demand for good leadership and make their leaders accountable, if they can make a Dubai from the meagre resources available to them even the northerners will have no choice than to beg the Igbo's and say come help salvage us.

P.S: I am not supporting anybody's view biko.Just airing my opinion. Thank you.

My main problem is we Igbos don't hold our leaders accountable enough. Look at my state Imo...the three governors I can remember have mostly been clowns... From Udenwa to Ohakim to Rochas. How can I leave that and cry "Hausa/Fulani" when Rochas thinks erecting unnecessary statutes is more important than fixing roads, etc?

Humility017:
the problem with your write ups is your linear approach of thinking....

I said it earlier the quest for political power is not always or cannot always be equalled to been ambitious.

take political power away from them...you'll see they have lost all relevance...

the fight for political power is accentuated by greed and the fear of other ethnic domination by the northern elites....not necessary driven by the quest to develop their people.....

the leaders are not ambitious for their people and the people are not ambitious for themselves..


example of leaders that have showed ambitious for their people...Is late Chief Obafemi Awolowo and even GEJ tried build amajiri schools for them and then what becomes of it as at today

the leaders encourage them to birth children in large numbers all because for the numerical advantage it serves them during elections...and they can't even feed them or cloth them.....
do you know recently Rev. Kukah aimed to feed and take up the responsibility of over 10m amajiri kids but the northern elites strongly resisted it...

does that show being ambitious for your people

to be honest....if Buhari was a southerner I can stick my nose to the ground...he would have had at least an MSc by now...
with the opportunity he had and ever since he left power in 1985...any ambitious person would have see reason to develop himself......

please know that the quest for political power does not invariable means you're being ambitious.... it is what you do with the attained power that shows how ambitious are you......

Fact of the matter remains with all the education southerners have - we are still bullied by those guys.
What is the point of all that education and ambition if we'll be controlled by the so called non ambitious north?
They wanted power and successfully managed to sideline we Igbos after the war...how can that not be viewed as "ambition"? Because they're not have that much of an interest in education like southerners? Well they have an interest in power and are on top of the damn food chain.
We "educated" southerners have been played like a banjo and pitied against each other by the northern elite... However you put it, that is unacceptable... Until our so called education and ambition shows REAL progress in our region - I don't buy all this talk.

Ignorance is a disease...

safarigirl:
people have given up on the country. That is what it says; it is a failed state and the intellectuals have chosen to abandon ship.

You can only fight for something you believe in and Nigerians outside the North, do not believe in Nigeria. It is something that arises from having strange bedfellows.

What made up give up on the country? That people whom they thought were inferior to them turned the tables on them? Because that's what it sounds like to me.
Azikwe should've listened to Awo and inserted that secession clause.

Subzero047:
Omeruo is now a leader, very matured but his deficiencies are still with him

He is a rash tackler and jittery in defence but Leganes system of 5-4-1 does not expose him much

Awaziem is more [b]technical, composed, better aerialy [/b]and on one on one situations

Agreed.

Kog45:
If we want to talk about that then Ekong would always be on the bench.

Ekong like Omeruo and Ajayi have been performing. I believe once Awaziem settles, he can break into the team. He needs to stay one place instead of all these loan moves he makes.

andrewbaba44:
You are picking the better one already

Think Awaziem has more upside tbh

andrewbaba44:
Awaziem is not better than omeruo

Period

Awaziem is better on the ball than Omeruo. You can say Omeruo is the more traditional/old school CB than him.
I'd pick Omeruo over him at the moment Sha.

safarigirl:
highly unnecessary addition to your write-up.

What is the meaning of mostly Igbos? You could not leave things at Southern folks, without singling an entire ethnic group? Would your post have been any worse if you did not resort to the default Nigerian mode of singling out a group?


See ehn, every ethnic group has stereotypes made of them by others. Let everybody collect their own and do their best to kill off the narrative against them


For now, you cannot expect anyone to take seriously, a group of people, who are only required to score 2 out of 200 to get admission into unity schools. A people with communities that are still celebrating first graduate, first lawyer, first so and so, in 2019. Stereotypes will not change because you want them to, they change because you make efforts to change them.

And we can say all we want, but what is political power for a few, if a majority are impoverished? In the real world, it is capitalists and business owners that control public policy, not politicians. Politicians are lapdogs to the people with money, just because you live in a dysfunctional society, does not mean that because a people have centered themselves on politics (which is the only thing in this trash place that educationally disadvantaged people can really aspire to), they have any actual ambition.

If you think political power is signs of an ambitious person, we might as well call call of the Niger Deltans who focus more on militancy, ambitious.


PS: If you have been to the North, you will not say the East is barely ahead of the North. North just has numbers, but they have a long way to go as regards so many other things. Aside Kano, Kaduna, Plateau, and maybe Sokoto, the rest of the North is only better than Ebonyi in the East. If you know the reverence they have for Igbo people here, you will know there is difference between sleep and death.

It is mostly Igbos that call Yoruba "slaves of Hausa/Fulani" despite being ruled over by the same Hausa/Fulani. How many times do you hear Yoruba folks call us slaves? Go through NL for one and see if what I'm saying is a lie.
Good you mentioned 4 Northern states which are good based on naija standards but if you listen to what some folks say, you'd think the whole North region is thrash despite some folks living in the said area.
At the end of the day - 95 percent of this country is beyond bleeped up...the east is better off than the north but it's still nothing to write home about... There's nothing to brag about not having constant power, good roads, etc. All this tribal wars is juvenile when compared to the bigger picture - our dear country is nothing to write home about.
I'm not saying don't be proud of your tribe(I'll always be proud Igbo man) but let's be more reasonable.
How ever we want to look at it - "illiterate and unambitious North" is ruling this country. What does that say about the rest of us?

Icon4s:
Was he invited in the first place?
I can't remember. What I know is he couldn't break into the first 11 of the Saudi 89 U21 team and he was not progressing well in terms of development as at that time.

I heard Westerhof invited him but he declined.

Icon4s:
Well said Egbon.

Phillip Osondu was one of the most exciting U17 players we ever had.

The echos of the foreign commentators shouting "Osondu! Osondu!" each time he was on the move with the ball, still flashes through my mind.

The Nigerian Youth system produced so many talented youth players in the 80s that Pele predicted that an African team will win the senior world cup before the end of that century. And Phillip Osondu was one of such players. Skills, pace and stamina packed in one player. A crowd puller.

Sad he never got to meet the expectations of his teaming fans. But whenever I remember Canada 87 I always remember Phillip Osondu.

RIP Phillip Osondu

Any reason why he rejected the invite to the Algiers 90 squad?

Mujtahida:
Ambitious in terms of making progress. Left for the North we'd still be under the colonialists.

Left for the North we'd still be under military dictatorship (in fact by temperament this is the kind of government they like)

So granted they dominate and control the major levers of power, but they are driving the nation back and not forward.

Well the fact that as un ambitious as they are, they've been able to keep power for this long and play SW, SE and SS against each other says something.
I think most of the time there's a twinge of arrogance involved when Southern folks(mostly Igbos) make statements like that.
Our so called ambition is not visible in the east... Infact we're barely ahead of the north if truth is to be told. We have the same problems(poverty, lack of constant power supply, etc) albeit in a slightly lower scale...its not like the east is Singapore in the middle of a desert or something.
Might seem like I'm going off point but I just don't like these foolish tribal squabbles brings with statements like that when the country as a whole is a hell hole and our leaders are playing us against each other.
This "North is crap and holding us back" talk is the reason we in the east barely hold our governors and lc chairmen accountable. If we Igbos are "republican/egalitarian by nature" like we claim - our states and the region as a whole should be much much better and show the rest of the country how things should be but it's not...instead all we're doing is being unnecessarily arrogant and beating our chest with barely nothing to show for it.

Humility017:
vast majority of them are not....

being ambitious sometimes correlate with your level of education as it expose you to the outside world and makes you enlightened.

It broaden your horizon and help you draw up plans beyond your stretch....

you can't compare the ambitious mind we down in the southern Nigeria to the north.

their leaders are not even ambitious for them....unlike in the south west were free and affordable education is the watch word. ..

please think deep prior you call be a tribalist

So how come they are the ones running the country??

TheSuperNerd:
According to Transfermrkt that is... Meanwhile, others report something else on assists. They put it as 15 goals and 6 assists.

Either way, Umar is one bloody hotshot who is balling superbly this season.

Yeah. I heard Transfermrkt add penalties won as an assist... Maybe that's why it's higher.

Blueelf:
People are hardly talking about Sadiq Umar's 2 goals and 1 assist today?

15 goals and 12 assists in all competitions... Mad numbers!!

tbaba1234:
They shouldn't try this in Nigeria. Most of the fans are not informed plus the vote will be manipulated.

Amuneke or Siasia would be our coach.

Sportilitica:
I fear journalism in Nigeria o.
You might be surprised he never said such.

Yeah true especially with what happened yesterday.