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yea, i know, i'm even suprised he has the guts to ask for a space after costing us the only two points we dropped so far

i hope lehmann stay's fit so that the competition continues

pls tell me what other league in the world get's front page stories in major newspapers, is followed in the home country like a religion and full to capacity stadiums, even for the smallest teams. Pls don't call that corruption ridden serie A.
Imagine Steve McLaren was voted to be the man with the second most important job in England(After the prime minister) that's the kind of commitment the english pple give to thier football. Pls don't pin the bame on nigerians for lovin it, blame the likes of arsenal, man roo and abrahimovich for making the premier league so interesting.
As Lami said 'what's there not to love bout the EPL' and as i said, I'll stick wiv the remaining 160million pple in the world watching it

i know lehman very well, he likes to perform in big games

Yeah I know, the premiership is even more predictable than the Norwagian League_{Rosenborg won 13 years in a row} that's why 160 million people in the world watch the match between Arsenal and Man U.

Maybe I'll just stick to that 'boring' league that has the highest foreign player to home player ratio

Lehmann will surely bounce back and get back his position. I hope the competition heatsup the more

@somze
u know our season DVD needs to be interesting

@somze
valencia can't stand our reserve team, at this current form _{ask big sam} After all we piped seville's b**ts and valencia can't be rated as high as sevilla for now. I hope ur not comparing urselves to us with that ur Chairman_/coach. But I wish u guys luck, I don't want arsenal to win the EPL without a tough competition.

@tboy
it's not that i don't have faith in wenger's tactics, but i feel sagna needs to start blending into that position in the last 15mins of our 3-0 games. he's coming from france u know.

I really think Yoruba films are better but the problem is the flow of cash in the industry
the marketing strategies they adopt are poor,
they never try to capture the attention on non yoruba viewers
they also tend to concentrate on the storylines and forget that not everyone cares bout that

This is also the difference between Hollywood and Bollywood(India)
The Hollywood producers spend money on the extra stuffs like stunts sound effects and marketing while you see the indian movies with better storylines and no publicity

The main issue is that the yoruba section of the Nigerian Movie industry should try to sell themselves to non-yoruba movie-watchers if not the story will never change.

After all these, u'll still hear some liars saying nollywood is the third best in the world.

The difference between Arsenal and Chelski is now clear;

Birthday gift for Abrahimovic: 2 - 0
Birthday gift to Arsene Wenger 7 - 0

The problem will get visible when Kolo goes to the Nation's Cup. We're so lucky now cause he takes care of any stupid counter attack that threatens us singlehandedly. I hope our winning streak continues

@somze
whether rosenborg or slavia, the two of them have suffered from Fab's agression, remember roseborg received 5-1 from us last two or three seasons.

I hope Chelsea's form increases higher than this level, the last thing i want is Arsenal winning the league and Chelski fans saying we won because there was no competetion.

[quote author=young_digi link=topic=29522.msg1607694#msg1607694 date=1193089865]eldee, who sang the song no lele?[/quote]the song is owned by Dekunle Fuji. that guy in Dare Art Alade's Fuji. He featured Ikechukwu, Cobbams and one other dude. How else can i describe it? the chorus went 'Mo like jesu gon'

no lele

yeah, but sorry he's warming his ass now in portugal

why's everyone too scared to drop a link to download -no lele-

why are we getting all worked up at the line-ups this early, soon the nation's cup will start, midweek fixtures and some players will get injured, then we'll even start players like nichlaus bentder, let's just keep the winning team for now

sorry, but what i think is that u have to show a lil commitment to a club to call urself a fan. not watchin them once in 3 years.

are u guys ready for next week? cos i'm scared

@youngpussy
u know what, i'm not going to allow myself to be dragged into your war of words
but i speak on behalf of all nigerians when i say u can't last one day in a nigerian hood
come down to mushin and come and show your gansta stuff
them go just comot your head for u
u won't even say one word, there are real thugs there not wannabes like you
ask tuface, so if u want to show that your a strong man, come to mushin
mugu like you
and if u want to shoot me, i'll be in naija this christmas
see if i'll not arrange opc for u
u'll see whether guns work in nigeria


maybe u didn't see the name of the website before u come here to diss nigerians,

dude shut the eff up,
no one cares if u're osama or whatever. no-one is scared of u here.
In my own opinion, your just a street gangsta wannabe.
In case you didn't find out, we have MTV
So don't go arround and get a collection on swear-words from Southpark and coming to disturb everyone here. 
ODE!!!
Mumu By Nature

ok, good reasonining there, but please tell me how many players from thailand are in the premiership, or even the indian people, please if its only fanatically followed by the represented countries, how did it get 160million viewers, pls don't try to make nigerians look bias.

what a waste, i remember that match, it ended 0-0

@dayokanu
Since u don't watch thier matches, pls tell me what makes you a bayern fan,
or do u buy thier souveniers,
save the trash for recycling abeg, you are not a bayern fan,
do u think being a fan is by lying down on your bed and praying for them?
if that's how to support a team, then Hitv will be defunct by now, rubbish

I don't know but if I'm not mistaken, but is this bayern is the bayer munich in UEFA Cup?

@razzor
Levels of stupidity have never gone higher than as shown in this thoughtless mix of words u put together.

I don't ubderstand why your hatred for us is so high. Let's take a stroll arround the collection of football fans on Nairaland and see for ourselves, Amodu, Rasque; see what this chelsea fan B-dex put up in one thread.

BdBedsBlue is the true color of the male gender and mostly favored by the female gender. so if you a true Blue then you a trtruly champ that people should be afraid of.  When the Blues are talking the other personnels shot their mouths and listen up.   let alALdaDArtruelues say CHELSEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i wonder how he even learnt how to use the internet and there are still many other examples.

razzor, please u know much better, why do u have to hate when u know arsenall's better.  I think you should reason very well before putting up a qoute and making your stupity shown in bold fonts.

As for the agberos, please explain how anyone will hate such entertaining football that is presented by young prodigees, the fact that you don't like entertaining football does not mean you should hate on those that do.

Maybe the title of this topic should be, why is the world crazy bout the premiership
Even wiv all the italian trophies, nobody outside europe watches it
I think i'll rather stick wiv the rest of the world(apart from u guys)
160million people can't be wrong

160m viewers, 202 countries: Premiership's worldwide pot of gold
Manchester United's visit to Arsenal was not just a must-watch match here but around the world. From Zagreb to Sydney the Premiership's popularity overseas is increasing. Nick Harris reports on how TV revenue and audiences keep growing

In 1972, the American mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz sought to encapsulate chaos theory by posing the question: "Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?"

In 2007, thanks to the global expansion of Premier League football, a sporting version of the same query can now ask: "Does a Thierry Henry header at the far post in London set off a storm in Mumbai or Lagos?" On the evidence of Sunday evening's dramatic events at the Emirates Stadium, yes.

Up to six million people watched the match live in the UK, with an in-home peak on Sky of 3.4 million - high for pay TV - and an estimated two million more in 40,000 pubs and clubs. But it was also possible to watch live in 201 other countries. The Premier League has a global "reach" into 613 million homes, and estimates a typical live audience for a single match of around 79.5 million. With Sunday's fixture such a pivotal occasion, featuring big clubs, it is estimated it could have drawn double that.So to the 60,128 people at the venue, Arsenal's last-gasp winner against Manchester United was just the latest dramatic denouement to a Premiership match contested by a rainbow alliance of athletes. But to the Premier League, it represented a pot of gold.

In each of the 16 countries across three continents represented by players in that one game alone, and in many other places, there is a growing appetite to watch live, top-end English football.

That is why the League was able last week to announce it has sold its next tranche of overseas TV rights (for seasons 2007-10 inclusive) for £625m, double what it earned last time. And why the Premiership is now the most-watched league in the world. And why scenes of pandemonium from South America to Africa to the Antipodes are often found when a game is screened.

"I knew there would be interest in such an important game as Arsenal against Man United in Nigeria," said Joe Nwokoye, who watched the game live in the Lagos suburb of Ikeja. "But I was surprised by the noise in the neighbourhood when Henry scored the winner. You could hear the cheers coming out of windows, and from the square down the road where it was being shown in public. It was a big deal." Nwokoye says many of his friends support Arsenal because of their African players, especially Emmanuel Adebayor, whose parents were born in Nigeria.

Football in India has not traditionally been a big sport, and absolute ratings remain low for the Premiership, in the low millions in a nation of 1.1 billion. But the recent percentage growth is faster than in most other places, and the value of the rights, while a low absolute figure, has grown exponentially.

The fervour in Mumbai late on Sunday night, local time, verged on the surreal as large numbers of Indian Manchester United fans packed into cafés to watch. They outnumbered the Arsenal fans but it was the home team's support who had the last triumphant laugh, as one of them, Nilu Izadi, testifies on the facing page today.

Premiership football has been responsible, among other phenomena, for bidding wars in the Far East, for an Icelandic executive jumping on a plane to London to beg to be allowed to bid for rights, and for match analysts in Argentina breaking into Beatles' songs during play. Every time George McCartney plays for West Ham (all of whose games are now live in Argentina, since Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano signed), Argentina commentators are keen to remind viewers he has two Beatles' names rolled into his, which provides the perfect excuse for singing the group's numbers.

The bidding wars in Asia and elsewhere started when the League put its next foreign rights out to tender last September. Some 450 interested parties were involved, generating bids from 130 entities covering 208 countries. In all, 81 separate deals have been done, all concluded directly between the League and broadcasters, allowing the League to tailor coverage (for example supplementary magazine shows featuring local players) to local needs.

The smallest deal was Fiji TV buying the rights for Fiji (population 900,000), Vanuatu and a few other small Pacific islands, while the biggest was ESPN Star's deal for pan-territory rights ranging from Macau and the Maldives to India and Pakistan. Other major deals include C-more Entertainment buying rights for Scandinavia, and Showtime winning the rights from ART in the Middle East.

The League is reluctant to provide details on what any broadcaster pays, but there are huge variations above and below the average £7m for each of the 81 deals. Little nations may pay in the low six figures. Multination deals run to tens of millions. The most valuable per capita deals were done in the "hot spots" of South-East Asia, Scandinavia and Africa.

In Thailand, it took six rounds of bidding for UBC, a pay TV operator, to wrest the rights from ESPN Star. In Hong Kong, the pay TV operator PCCW outbid I-Cable by paying a reported £10m, in a territory of only seven million people.

In Iceland, the rights were won by the Icelandic Broadcasting Corporation, which held them prior to 2004. IBC lost out in 2004 by not bidding, assuming an agency would win and sub-license them. But its fierce rival, the Icelandic Television Co, snapped them up, leading a top IBC executive to fly to London to protest and be allowed to bid late. He was turned down then, but has won the rights back now.

The intervention of the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, has led to a new structuring of deals across Africa, to be split by several broadcasters instead of being held by the pay TV monopoly holder, Supersport. The upshot is that 390 million extra African households (most poor, many Muslim) will gain some free-to-air access of live Premiership games from next season. If it seems strange for British politicians to argue for live English football as a right in the Third World, it is indicative of the game's popularity and power.
Much more of this and the Premiership might even start to be known as the giving game, not just the global one. Although , on second thoughts, that's about as likely as 94th-minute header sealing a come-from-behind win against Manchester United.


Source: Daily Independent (UK)
http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/premiership/article2177923.ece

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err, that's chop up technology

@busygirl
that collabo will be of the hook

I couldn't make one choice so I selcted ten, make your own choice

1.jjc a.k.a skillz(forget that hes based in london, hes got d skillz tru)
2.ojb(he's got d r.kelly kind of production)
3.cobhams asuquo(this guy is so so good)
4.el-dee da don(about 2 blow, like u;have never seen before in naija)
5.omololu(hes got d skillz)
6.jeremiah gyang(just love d hausa song he did, but didnt know he produced elbow room, i have 2 confirm that,, young shall grow)
7.jamix(yeah, hes hot, just downloaded some of his track)
8.sunky n mekoyo(they r good)
9.g-links(d formidable song is damn kool)
10. don jazzy

maybe mekoyo of stylplus can make the list