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@tkb

After you've registered and picked your players, (Do that on time because players like Shawcross could triple in value if they move to big clubs), then go to Leagues.
You'll see an option of Create/Join tab.

You'll see a text box for 'Join a Private League'.

@v3

It's not letting me send it to the 'v3' username, I don't know why.
Do you mind logging in as v3nom4eva and checking your inbox??

With the new EPL season drawing nearer, I have decided to start the Nairaland Fantasy Premier League 2010/2011.
After the unexpected number of people that are willing to get into the league for last season, we have decided that it will be open to Nairalanders only.

To ensure that this works properly, a few flexible guidelines will be applied in ensuring that no random person comes here to run away with the trophy.

There will be two leagues, a Classic League and a Head-to-Head Cup.

1. Entry into the leagues will be strictly by invitation.
2. The codes will be sent to a few well-known members by Nairaland PM.
3. Requests for entry (if not recieved in your Inbox) should be posted on this thread.
4. Anybody is allowed to send in a request for the code.

Please ensure you register your team as soon as possible. You have unlimited transfers till the season starts so there's no need to worry about transfer speculations.

May the best manager (Sir El Gee) win.

Dr Kitaun:
Has he served long enuff ? Nope, did he do as much as Henry or Vieira ?

He's spent more time at Arsenal than Ian Wright did. BTW . . .Did he tell you he wants to become an Arsenal legend??
He is a Barcelona boy that gave us seven years of his career knowing fully well where he'd rather play.

I regard him and people like Bergkamp more professional than the Maldinis that played for decades in the club he grew up supporting.
It's much easier when it's the club of all your childhood fantasies, you're winning and  there are good players around you.

Dr Kitaun:
So we have admitted that we are 'so unsuccessful' or that FAB4 doesnt see us winning trophies soonest ?

Why are our best players always desperate to leave us ?

Who is going to be our next Bergkamp ?

That's not the point here, the point is whether or not Fabregas has served us long enough to be able to decide where he wants to play next season.
Methinks he has.

Dr Kitaun:
Why cant players emulate GIGGS, XAVI, MALDINI, BUFFON, DEL PIERRO et al ?

Buffon left Parma for the money . . .highest paid goalkeeper.

Maldini, Xavi, Giggs, Del Pierro play for the clubs they started with . . . Fab4 started in Barcelona.

If I had a chance to play for Arsenal when I'm at say Liverpool, I wont even think twice.
Fab4 is giving us way too much respect.

Hehehe . . . they've banned people from wearing a major brand?? Police??
What next they'll ban people from wearing Adidas on grounds of impersonating the Super Eagles??

Unexposed imbeciles.

eldee:
Nazi - Dayokanu
Broster - People whose gender cannot be confirmed . . . e'g Eldee Mukina
Mod - Moderator

Mukina . . . I will kill you!!!!!!

[quote author=oyinda. link=topic=478066.msg6398427#msg6398427 date=1279311008]if you don't buy the concept of sanctity of marriage, why would you object to your partner doing it?
if i believe that coning people is ethical, why should i be mad if someone else cons me?
unless u believe you are d exception to the rule of d universe or something (ie above all ). sounds like something from crime and punishment.

you say "unfair advantage" key word is "unfair" so therefore, you KNOW it's wrong. and it's unethical.[/quote]Your naivete is exemplary . . . you won't last a day in law . . . the fact that I don't buy the concept of sanctity of contract/marriage doesn't mean I shouldn't go into it.
It just means I will benefit by blindsiding the other party.

And yeah, losing is painful, ethical or otherwise . . . even if I believe that cheating is just being smart, I still don't like people being smarter than I am.

Nah, the key word is 'advantage' . . . to you it might be unethical, to the man who's dad was a polygamist, it's normal.
There's a reason why the cheated cries while the cheat just moves in with a new wife.
Advantage is not weakness, it's superiority.

Ibime:
Taio Cruz is a punk with all his tuneless autotune tracks and bootyless bohemian white gurls. Plus Im sure he wears lipstick with those his pink lips. Gay fish!

Why does everyone call him that??
Even off NL . . .

DBR:
Eldeegy. . .eheee. . .I say i don gree naauww.
Ok, no vex, u hear? Pele dear.

oNe

All I want from you is a valid debate, I know it's in you, you're just rusty.

Try learning from Ibime or better still, your old posts.

bjmighty:
@@@@ELDEE. . . . . . . . .  Don't you think u are hyping M.I in a mighty way.  M.I is good! Yes we now!!! You making him sound like he's been in the Game for 10 years and has been holding the game down. Hommie chillex ok! IBS, Vector, Terry, IBS and more cats underG will murder M.I lyrically. He is not going as hard as you making it sound. He is only enjoying his 5mins of the outer limelight, abeg make we hear word jare. In it, your post nowadays are sounding lame. Are you not just ok no more??

M.I has proven his lyrical strength, that's not in question, ask Modenine.
Why didn't we hear anything in the days of I'm Hot and Area?? Abeg let them joing the qeue jare.
The only person that had the liver to step up was Iceberg Slim, Vector was still singing Light Up Nigeria abi na wetin.

I'm lame?? Come on . . . you're the one that said M.I's career is dying, I had to beg Nairalanders not to slap you.

hax:
I don't think so. I haven't heard anything he's spat that's better than what he's done on Talk About It. That's by the way anyways.

And there's no point beefing these small cats. Why didn't Jay-Z reply Game? I'd understand if he was also trying to find his feet in the rap game, but he's the biggest mainstream rapper out there, why the fxck should he feel the need to reply everything IBS and KH say? He should keep doing his thing jor. Fxck the haters.

Long time. I dey hail una o.

Nah, he's improved on a different aspect . . .his delivery.
Listen to 1,2,3 Hiphop . . . his flow on that track literally Renegaded Talk About It.


It's a lose-lose man . . . replying or not replying would have yielded the same result.
Even though Jay-Z has never actually replied Joe Budden, many people think the wjole of BPIII was a diss to him.

M.I never replied Iceberg Slim, yet his Somebody Wants To Die has been interpreted as an Iceberg Slim diss.

DBR:
Are u remotely suggesting that the Meanin of UPSTART is unclear hence the Noscitu a socilis? hehehe
Haba eldee, dont take it personal naauww. U put Ruggedman's in context u said:
"2shots had a [/b]year ([b]One great album), Ruggedman had a year(one album too)"
Space of time or crittical acclaim wont change an album to a mixtape, or vice versa So sorry your argument is yet frail.

Oh . . . aren't you going to point out the fact that Ruggedman has 2/3 albums?? When I drop critical acclaim and recognised on every
Aren't you picking on every word?? The fact that you're actually being serious is what shocks me.

Why do I even bother . . . I should be used to this by now.

DBR:
I simply said me think Upstart is more appropriate for M.i. And what did u say, read:
^^^ This Is u defining wat upstart is, eldee^^^^ so u blame me for not knowing your own def. of Upstart? u kiddin me.
So now we have locational defination of words. prof prof!By what authority do u speak?
While i was sayin "i think" by d meaning of the word that . . .
Here u are sayin Nah, and authoritatively definin wat Upstart IS not wat u even tryin to make it be o?
yadda yadda yadda. . . .wats the point. your analogies baffles me!

Ok, tell u what, I agree.
IBS is the upstart, i guess i got the meanin wrong.
Tho i wonder how d heck thats helps pple in contributin'?
Cos that aint even the crux, didnt xpect u to make an opus of it. . .which is alredy a contribution.
A veryyyyyyyyyyy long one at that.

oNe

Yeah, quote me out of context, isn't that what you're good at?? I defined upstart as 'one album'. All the analogies I put there don't contribute to what I see as an upstart.
BTW . . . you've argued with me on this section for ages and you still expect me to put 'I think' before I drop an opinion??
You see what I said about being trivial??

Your 'upstart' post was four lines, mine was four lines too . . . but I'm the one writing the 'opus'?? That's it, it was hilarious before, not it's repetitive and boring.

This is a waste of time man . . . I can't go any further with this.

nellaluv:
Indigenous Hip Hop artists, 9ice, recently confirmed that his new international CD ''versus" will sell for N2,000. A move that was started by Tuface Idibia. . . he sold his unstoppable album for N1,000. [size=16pt]Rugged Man also released his N1,000 CD[/size], and now 9ice has taken it up a notch by proposing to sell his for N2,000.
http://www.jaguda.com/2010/07/15/9ice-new-album-to-sell-for-n2000/
or google it for more info!

Abi this one dey crase?? Instead make im pay us to buy the album.

Wordsmith:
@eldee,
while i wouldn't say his career is dying, let's get some things straight. . . MI is no battle rapper. of all them Choc Boiz, i'd rather say Ice Prince fits that description. it's like with each collabo, dude (MI) keeps dropping lamer and lamer lines. silly ish like -

", they are so dry, i think they need lotion".
or something like that. dude can be clever with the wordplay and all, but he doesn't have that grit and aggressiveness battle rappers have. . .

M.I has not been confronted by a rapper, so I cannot comment on that.
The time his career was focussed at that aspect of rap, no one came up.

M.I is the first person(bar Modenine) that has said 'I'm not saying I'm the best, I'm just asking who's better' without being confronted.
Right now he's focussed towards being the face of Nigerian hiphop, he's come out many times to advocate unity in hiphop. . . he even said 'shoutout to Iceberg Slim' after that line.

DBR:
Trivial? Hehehee
No. I dont kno what u mean. I kno wat u said is wrong.
Shud i just assume t'was a mistake on your part and not an error of facts?
Simply say, "oh I made a mistake" and stop turnin it around that im being insensitive to your error. .callin it figure huggin.
If smone calls a mixtape an album on NL u'l be d 1st to make that person feel unintelligent not to kno d difference btw a mixtape or an album
So, suck it up boi!  

Oh yeah, I don't know the difference between Illegal Music and Talk About It.
You are being so trivial . . .it's freaking ridiculous, reminds me of Tavarez arguing with me over Modenine's album sales.

You might as well go and hold on to the fact that I said 'Ruggedman: One album' . . . I would say noscitur a sociis, but it will lead to rehash of Hamlet's soliloquy.

DBR:
Now i sound desperate. . great! Lol.
I see u got issues with labellin' cos that desperate label looks great on u.
C'mon Upstart is Upstart. I dont get why dudes let ego get in the way
instead of admittin an error u just gotta say smthin to counter.
It's no contest naauw eldee.
Ok, i don go check dictionary,and this is wat i found:

[i]n.
A person of humble origin who attains sudden wealth, power, or importance, especially one made immodest or presumptuous by the change; a parvenu.
adj.
1. Suddenly raised to a position of consequence.


So applyin to this discusion, not argument . .Btw M.i and IBS abeg, who does this definations fit better?
Who suddenly overnite achieved recognition, fame in 9ja Hiphop? IBM?
I think not.

oNe

Ego?? More like, one of us has to take the high road.
Yeah, you're being trivial and desperate.

How?? Holding on to a term that was obviously used for emphasis of a point and ignoring the whole point itself.
If I say Rugged has one album and M.I had two, doesn't it just go to show that I'm talking about acclaim for the works??
Do I have to write 100 words when two will do?? That to me is being trivial.

How are you desperate?? I used upstart using the the two factors involved . . .time and critical acclaim but relating them to the Nigerian music industry.
But you say, 'erm . . . no, I'll remove any relation to the topic of the thread but use the definition on wikipedia or urbandictionary.com'
That's like me saying 'oh Adenuga is extremely wealthy' on Nairaland and then you go ahead to bring a Forbes richlist, because that's the 'generally accepted evidence'.
That's desperate and trivial in my own books . . . it kills conversation, and stops anyone from being able to make contributions.

You see the thing . . . I reply you, I discuss the definitions of upstarts and albums, I reply Wordsmith, I discuss M.I's career.

Hehehe . . .


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debosky:
It looks very likely. . . .I'd wait till the Emirates Cup games to pick though - another CB might come in, or Wenger might (God forbid) choose to go with Djourou and Vermaelen as our starting pair.

Hmmn . . .aiite, I'll go with a player from a different team, Djourou will be a major threat while Koko adjusts.

DBR:
Hello!!! Sure we aint talkin bout same M.i?
ma boy? M.i. . how culd he do that to me?
Release 2 albums and i was only informed of one?!!
Dude, get your fact right.

Stop being trivial, yo know what I mean when I say two albums, I'm not going to go all figure-hugging with you, got to notjustok.com and see what's the most viewed post.

DBR:
Plus, guess u have a different defination for Upstart.
i go with the general accepted one, not the one that changes with
the peculiarity of 9ja music scenarios.
Dunno where couple of sick joints n crittical acclaim makes one an upstart.
Sudden rise to fame and recognition is ma own understandin of Upstart, that cap fits M.i better.

oNe

So you will detach a word from the context in mhich it's being used.
Listen to how desperate you sound. (Before you go lookup the general definition, I'll rather we stick to the one that applies to arguments)

@debosky

I'm choosing my EPL Fantasy team, is Kokomaster going to make the first team??

DBR:
Upstart? Me think M.i wears in the Upstart tag better.
Or i no kno meanin of upstart again??.
M.i is d one who's enjoyin new status, accolades and co, not IBS.
Jay/Nas upstart example sits, but M.i/IBS,, me think it's d other way round.

Nah, in Nigerian hiphop terms, M.I has stayed up there long enough.
Upstart is one recognised album, M.I has two with a collabo history that will shock Drake

How long do you think people stay up there in Nigerian hiphop?? 2shots had a year (One great album), Ruggedman had a year(one album too), that position is where Iceberg Slim is right now, a couple of sick joints and critical acclaim. He is the upstart in this case not M.I.

@bjmighty

First of all, let me point out that I'm not M.I, so I don't need fans, it's not the matter of defence here, it's a matter of fact or false.

That said, is M.I's career dying?? I laugh in Dagrin's voice.
He's doing bigger shows, making hotter tracks, being more and getting more and more awards.

What then is his career?? A one minute verse on Choc Boys??
Let's sit down and reason before we post, it could be quite helpful.

debosky:
^^ That is a disturbing comment.

bjmighty:
Many of us know the dude is killing M.I's career gradually if care is not taken but consoling urself by saying "Kelly H is this, is that,  blah blah blah is not gonn do it for you or for your man. Let the truth be told Kelly Handsome is giving M.I real sleepless night! T.H.R.EA.T!!!!

I call bullshit right there.
M.I's career is dying?? He's the most popular rapper in Nigeria, he's an MTV award winner and BET award nominee, he's the must have rapper on your album, only Eldee comes close.
Everything he puts his name on becomes a hit.
Every other rapper, bar none . . .will beg for his 'dead' career.

DBR:
I said it b4 and i'ma say it again Iceberg is the one M.i shud be worried about.
Cos lyrically IBS na Were o!

y'all sayin he shud shut up, and not pay attention.But i think M.i needs this.
He need sm1 to push him, make him uncomfortable and ruffled.
M.i neva reach that level to ignore pple like Iceberg's diss cos IBS is a formidable foe to M.i. .lyrically.

oNe

I know man . . . but he needs some real competition like Terry Tha Rapman or OD.
IBS is not enough motivation . . . he's lyrically ill but it's not worthy competition.
Right now M.I will stick to listing out achievements till someone is strong enough to question them.

Iceberg Slim will remain the 'upstart' for a few years . . . same way Jay-Z was just another unnecessary upstart to Nas till 'condoms on your baby seat.
It's a hard place, you're motivated enough to do a diss track, but not stung enough to do an Ether.

[quote author=oyinda. link=topic=478066.msg6393730#msg6393730 date=1279251154]let's put it this way: cheating is a weakness of character (or moral weakness). if you believe in marriage as a sacred institution between a man and a woman and you default against it, obviously you fell weak. if on d other hand you don't believe in marriage as an institution between a man and a woman, you would opt for an open marriage or become swingers. that to me doesn't count as cheating.
if you wouldn't tolerate your wife doing it, or tolerate your kids growing up to do it, then you are weak if you did it.[/quote]Nah . . . you don't have to go into an open marriage just because you don't buy the concept of the sanctity of marriage.
You could just pretend like you do and just cheat. . . you get an unfair advantage and that's why you don't want your wife to do it.
If I con you and you lose money, it's my advantage, yo can take the moral high-ground, but one thing about ethical arguments is the question of, why should your ethical values rule mine??
Fornication used to be almost treasonable in Biblical times, they would have sentenced me to death by hanging while being stoned to death.

[quote author=oyinda. link=topic=478066.msg6393730#msg6393730 date=1279251154]and by the way, every one who cheats makes a conscious decision to do so. it's only if you didn't make the choice (ie you were despoiled) that it's not considered cheating. obviously.

and i'm sure when 49cents talks abt habitual cheaters as being "interiorly deformed" he's talking about ppl who have totally fallen n at their weakest points. maybe comparable to addicts and alcoholics. they really ARE to be pitied.[/quote]There's a difference between making a conscious decision and being weak.
There's a difference between drinking when you want to and being an addict.

Your theory is just the same as the 'he doesn't deserve you' speech girls give their girlfriends after they're dumped.

Theblessed:

how many more times would Nigerian women forgive these wayward husbands who understands the commandments yet, knowingly/purposely trash it?

77 X 7 = 539

Oh, aren't you 'in the faith'?? How can you not know that??

Theblessed:

To, me a cheat will always be a cheat because, a leopard never changes its spot. Once, a man/woman slept outside his/her marital bed with another person they'd do it all over again but I'm saying sorry, to the unassuming husband/wife.  For me, you don't stand a chance of deceiving/hurting me the second time - no chance!

You are a false prophet if you come here to say 'a cheat will always be a cheat'.
Sunday-Sunday worshipper.

Theblessed:

Personally, I will forgive but I won't cope with it. For there's a difference between forgiving and coping with the aftermaths.  I haven't got that patience and I know my limits.  For me, forgiving means: yes, we're still friends, I will still look out for you but, there's no emotional ties or connection left in me for you - It means I don't love you no more! So, tell me of what use would it be sticking together just to please the neighbours, family and society in general when either of us are not happy?? Is marriage not meant for two happy people that truly love themselves?

Forgiveness means . . . that sin no longer exists to you. And if it no longer exists, leaving him will mean you're divorcing him for no reason.
Read your Bible.

[quote author=oyinda. link=topic=478066.msg6393063#msg6393063 date=1279231224]everyone has a freedom of choice
if the partner was despoiled, that's the only case where he/she didn't have a choice and that doesn't count as cheating.
or if they agreed to an open marriage. based on what their ideal of a relationship is.

usually, people who cheat will try to find an excuse to justify their act because they know the act is wrong. ie i stole from someone else because i was poor, i cheated because my wife wasn't satisfying me etc. that is a sign of weakness.

i don't get the part in bold. [/quote]Cheating gives you undeserved edge in a relationship, that's why it's called 'cheating'.
It's not a weakness. . .

It's only a weakness when you don't make the choice to do it.

davidylan:
1. Drop the false gangsta language. It doesnt wash with me, i'd rather plain english.

Dude . . . I'd prefer to have control over my choice of words.

davidylan:
I'll start with the bottom here in highlights. That is the TYPICAL response from those who are desperate to prove they are right even in the face of overwhelming evidence that they are totally WRONG.

Overwhelming evidence?? All you did was say 'good, perfect and acceptable' wills of God based on that passage, which is completely wrong.
The Bible has many cases of using more than one word to describe the same thing and because of the little ambiguity, people like you read meanings into them. . . hence the reference to Pastor Chris.
Look at the book of Proverbs and see the way different words are used to emphasize the same thing.

davidylan:
Sorry, Romans 12:2 DID NOT qualify all the wills as you falsely allude. There is a reason the writer of Romans SPECIFICALLY used that language. The word "perfect" is NOT synonymous to "good" or "acceptable" . . . they are completely different. I did not address them as "comparative adjectives" e.g. good, better, best . . . that is your own delusion.

When I say, 'go out when the sun is hot and bright' . . . I am describing one thing but from different angles.
It's doesn't mean there is a hot sun and a bright sun. . . I used two completely different words but they don't describe mutually exclusive objects.

And you say you didn't use comparative adjectives?? Isn't your whole argument based on the notion that God is keen on one rule and 'allows' the other??
How then does your application of the 'grade system' come in??
Dude . . . come the eff on.

davidylan:
Lets explain a bit better - remember Balaam? God's PERFECT will was "do not go down with Balak". When he insisted God now said ok just go but only say what i put in your mouth . . . now did God change His mind there? YES . . . that was his permissive/acceptable will in action there. God allows certain things that may be against His original purpose if at the end of the day it brings about His own plan.

Remember David who killed Uriah to marry Bathsheba? Was that God's perfect will by which Solomon would be born? NO! If not God would not have sent Nathan to talk to David and taken the first born from that union.

Remember the parable of the sower? Why do we have some GOOD GROUND bringing 100 fold, some 60 and some 30? Is God's ultimate plan that all of us settle for a mediocre 30 fold rather than 100 fold?

1. Balaam went against the will of God . . . and how was it permissive after he already repented and turned his donkey to go back home, God didn't permit him, He instructed him to go. How did God's will change if all Balaam did was bless Israel??

2. David's case was simple. . . having her give birth to Solomon, the chose successor was a punishment for the disobedience. If you know anything about Hebrew culture, you would know that the fact that Absalom didn't succeed David was disgraceful and also that Solomon being chosen and the troubled reign  was God punishing David for that sin. 'For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun'.

3. The parable of the sower is just there to show that God has given us the autonomy to and will not force his choices on us. The words can fall on hardened hearts or ready hearts but it's our choice to either accept it or not.

That 's done . . . what other ambiguous biblical texts are you going to latch on to??
God has his will, which will always remain his will . . . whether we choose to obey it or disobey it, it is still his will. . . 'God is not a man that he should lie . . .neither is he a son of man that he will repent'.

davidylan:
nothing new. you're flogging a dead horse. I pointed out Mal 2:6 and Matthew 19 as examples of where God was EXPLICIT against divorce. We know it is not His perfect will.

Do you know what 'explicit' means?? You don't give 'explicit' statements and then 'allow' sumthing.
God hates divorce, explicitly . . . Moses allowed (as a ruler, a pragmatic decision) it but it was against the one and only will of God.
It was disobedience supported by Moses and that's why Jesus came to clarify it.

davidylan:
we all agree with you on this. You're simply rehashing the same story.

Dismissive comment . . . this is a different one altogether.
Forgiveness is unequivocally enforced in the Bible by Jesus. . . no ambiguity, so how can divorce be 'allowed' if the Bible enforces forgiveness??
Or is there another will of God that allows you not to forgive??

davidylan:
Luke doesnt record it, Mark doesnt but Matthew does. Should we then throw the fact that Matthew records Christ stating adultery as the only motive for divorce out the window because only 1 of 4 gospels quote it? Absurd.

Read Deut 24:1 - that is the verse Christ was quoting directly. Matthew didnt just pick that statement up from the air.

Simple . . . all the other gospels show Jesus unequivocally rejecting divorce on all grounds, Matthew's records were heavily influenced by ties to Mosaic laws.

@mamagee & TheAMAKA

Aiite . . . Mamagee and TheAMAKA, you guys are my favourite ladies on NL.
Now frenchkiss and make up . . . and then kiss me too.

And let's solidify our one love in my bedroom.


[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=237342.msg6392551#msg6392551 date=1279223609]How do you know this?
Eldee is a Polygamist. . . . .He loves you, Chiogo, The Amaka and Gangstaboo.
He musta gotten his P-I-M-P blood from his great-grandfather who married 14 wives. [/quote]Add Stillwater, Googles, Chi-baby, Nike4luv and still counting.
I'm going to break that man's record . . .  

dayokanu:
Whats going on here?

I saw the topic and thought we would get some hard core action with pictures of people caught in the act but I ran into a seminary. Haba ppl relax jare wetin consign bible inside manliness and kitty matter

Na wetin I don dey talk since before all these Pastors carry PhD Theology come dey analyse prick and kitten matter.