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Lampard? What heck is going on with this guy?

Yeah Good for him.

Going by Argentina's match last night, it will be a MF battle. We need very fit MFs if we really mean business.
Gutirez (A player with little or no skill) is nothing but a machine. He was everywhere on the pitch.
Macherano is also there to break legs if necessary.
Need I say how lethal their striker (Gonzalo H) is?
And on the wings? oh dear. . .we have to up our play by all means necessary!

Greece?! A very boring side. We should get a win against them.

Praise The Lord for He is Good!
All the time!

Croucheeee! (slightly offside I think)

(A beautiful assist from SWP)

3-1!

SWP!

GOAL

England 2 -1 Egypt!

Ramoooooooooooos!

France 0 -2 Spain!

Zidaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!

GOAL! Brilliant!

Lamparrrrrrd!
How did he miss that?

ow11:
Mikel is not effective when he plays in either positions like you say but i think he would be very effective as a deep lying midfielder if we decide to adopt the Italian system of slow tempo build up play. Kind of what Andrea Pirlo does for Milan. Not quick, but can place some decent passes.

He would need to play alongside a destroyer like Kaita (Gattuso) and a good offensive midfielder (Nsofor, Ibrahim, Maduabuchi, Haruna or whoever Lagerback unearths).

I think he is useful in that sort of dull formation otherwise, he has to make way if we would play wing footie or high tempo- counter attacking footie.

Haru-who?

The future is bright! 

Not a bad performance!

It will be silly to say that we have no single good (WC material) home based player.

Link don yamutu oo!

These commentators sef. . .LOL!!!     
Congo Democratic Republic of Simba. . . em em. . .
At least he later corrected himself. hehe.

UP Super Eagles!!!!!!!!!!!!

honeric01:
You still didn't get what i meant? well, all i was trying to say is that, you should ignore them and just do the commentary yourself just as i like doing. you can also mute your TV set, that's another option.

LOL!      
So you mean you sit down in front of your TV and go like. . .

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. . . Welcome to the honerico1's domain!
Sorry match don start. . .
Ike sends the ball to Nsofor. Nsofor looks up. . .couldn't find any player in a green shirt (I think he was looking for Martins but Oops Obagoal is not on the pitch today).
What does he do? He goes past a defender, 1, 2, 3. . . .and it's a . . .a . . .

honeric01:
act as if they aren't even talking, just use your imagination to do the commentary on your own

And you think you made any sense?  

Fhemmmy:
If you notice, i am not frequent on YOUR Section, only when their is a game, so u can use your fingers whichever way you want . . . . .
NOrmal person . . . .all cos he moderate a section . . .  .  

I don't have to notice you. Who cares if you come to THIS section or not?
Quit acting like you are smart.
Asking you to act like a normal person has nothing to do with being a moderator.


@topic
Second half. . .Lets go there. . .

Fhemmmy:
You could use your fingers whichever way you like oh.
When i screamed, did it not work?
Nigerians only understand when someone screamed, cos when i said it like a gentleman, did anyone respond? Nope . . . . .so will only do what it works.

Too bad. Next time act like a normal person and no it did not work.

The boys are trying. . .but the commentators are so poor!

Can someone please tell them to keep quiet for 20 mins at least?

@Fhemmy. . .it's annoying when you post with such BIG font.

Keep it normal abeg. Thanks.

Links already posted 3 times on this thread. Read up!

GOALLLLLLLLLLLLL

Nsofor

3 - 0!

The Stadia is as good as empty?
Is this what Amodu/NFF has reduced our football to?

GOALLLLLLL

Enyimba striker scoresssssssssss!

Nigeria 2 - 0 Congo!

The commentaries can make you sleep off!

Nigeria 1 - 0 Congo

Scored by Denmark based Peter Utaka.

@Eastbay, you do have some points but then I don't know if you followed some of the WCQ matches. If you did then you couldn't have missed the fact some countries are still using pali (card boards) for time/player change indicator.

Anyone following this match?

I can't believe this match is not live? NFFFFFFFFFFFFF!

Just seeing it now. . .let me amend the time on the thread.

Did they say team B? wwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaat?

DRC ARRIVE HOURS BEFORE FRIENDLY

Nigeria's opponents in Wednesday's friendly, the Democratic Republic of Congo, will only arrive in Abuja five hours before their game against the Super Eagles B side.

The Congolese took off on a chartered flight from Kinshasa at 07h00 Nigeria time and are expected to land in Abuja at around 11h00 in the morning, according to NFF Chief Media Officer Ademola Olajire.

"They informed us just before they took off at 07h00 this morning. It is a four-hour flight, so they should be here on schedule," Olajire told KickOffNigeria.com.

It is not clear why the Congolese, who were expected in Nigeria early in the week, decided to leave so late, and Olajire conceded that the quality of the football may suffer.

"We don’t know why they delayed so much. We kept calling them and they kept assuring us that they would be here on time.

"It will definitely affect the quality of the game, because they may not have enough time to rest before kickoff. But we hope that they can put that behind them and give a good performance."

The game is at 16h00 Nigeria time.

http://www.kickoff.com/static/news/article.php?id=14174

Eastbay:
It's pretty difficult to imagine footie without offside,but the truth is that Blatter is trying to go around the obvious, which is implementing video evidence.
The way I see it,Footie will become extremely defensive if the offside rule is scrapped.Knowing that anybody can score from any position,it will lead to teams avoiding such,and the goals will dry up.

Not sure I go with everything you've said but that (the highlighted) is SPOT ON!

My take on video evidence is this. . .can the poorer nations afford this?

When we play Ireland, you guys complain. . .the same Ireland that played against Brazil yesterday.

We were meant to play against Portugal but Carlos Queiros was not impressed with The SE's performance during the ANC.
Paraguay was lined up. . .but NFF said contract no favor them.

Now it is Congo! Well what can we do about it? Is it not when you have a good team with some kind of appeal that other countries will line up to play against you?

I was surprised about Congo and likewise wasn't impressed either but heck what can we do about it?

Once we have a disciplined and good team it is natural that other better better things will follow.

No need complaining now. Let's get our house in order first.

morpheus24:
As far as accomodation is concerned, its insane right now so I can't give any tips.  I have friends who live in town so will obviously be bunking with them.There nare small B&B which will be cheaper than regular hotels, some hostel style areas and also will be huge areas that will be converted to tent like structures for fans who obviously have no accomodation and will probably be a charge to get one. Try to floow soem european chat forums for more details on that,  . preferably the british ones.

It's not advisable to come with kids if you are planning on running around to watch matches, however if you are coming more for a holiday and planning other activity hoping to catch maybe a game or two them its okay. (Note prices for everything will be 3 times as much, )

You might want to get more advise fromour resident South African (RSA) who would know a little more that I would.

You right on that. . .prices are way above "normal". Some greedy people eh?
We were checking out some websites on istopover.com (folks who rent out their rooms or flats) and saw onw for $65/night but believe you me, it was twice that price 2 days after. People chasing money right there. . .
But lucky you as you've got someone to bunk with.

Saw some advert (tourism) on CNN, it looks like a beautiful place.

FIFA are considering scrapping the offside rule, according to a report in The Times.

The newspaper reports that FIFA president Sepp Blatter has discussed what would be the most radical rule change in the sport for decades.
Blatter has apparently spoken to the president of the International Hockey Federation, Leandro Nagre, about how hockey abolished the rule in the 1990s.
"He asked me a lot of questions about it and how successful it was, although he never offered an opinion, so it was difficult to judge what football might do," said Negre.
"But he did seem very interested in how we had implemented it."
The offside rule in hockey was abolished in 1998 after a trial period two years earlier, a move which has been credited with making the game more free-flowing and exciting as a spectacle.
Veteran BBC sports commentator Barry Davies firmly believed that it would be a great move for football.
"I would love to see it given a trial in the lower leagues," he said.
"It would probably take a long time for players to adjust. It's also very demanding physically, but I was amazed at how quickly hockey adapted and there's no doubt the game is better for it."
Davies believes that the abolition of offside is not the only rule that football could borrow from hockey, suggesting that the green card - which leads to a two minutes in the sin bin for players - would also work well.

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/02032010/58/world-cup-2010-fifa-ponder-scrapping-offsides.html