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@190

 Be easy on the girl abeg, u're too harsh haba!

@pwetty, do to others what you would want done to you.

@Odunnu

 I am happy for you

 

Lets drop our differences ([size=2pt]GEJ[/size])

^^^

Oh yes, we chatted yesterday, thanks for the reminder.

^^^^

 Did you make any sense?

Lol, watch out for part 3, "OSAMA" the deadly return from the dead", GRAB YOUR COPY NOW!!!


@cold,

 the shoe bomber is also a Muslim right?

Good for them, no let them prepare for the world championship.

Not forgetting Bojan's goal that was disallowed for a ball to hand incident relating to Yaya Toure.

Scholes 2004, Abidal 2009, Milito 2010 – Jose Mourinho is a disrespectful hypocrite for his post Real Madrid-Barcelona rant

Goal.com's Carlo Garganese agrees that Real Madrid's Jose Mourinho “went too far” on Wednesday night, and blasts The Special One's hypocrisy and selective memory

By Carlo Garganese
Apr 29, 2011 5:30:00 PM

"Mourinho is the best coach in the world , but as a man he still needs to learn manners and respect."
These were the words just a few months ago of none other than Mario Balotelli. Now when the Manchester City enfant terrible, whose string of misdemeanours reads longer than today’s Royal Wedding guest list, offers you advice in regal protocol and etiquette then you know you have an attitude problem.

This writer happens to be one of The 'Special One's biggest fans. By the time he retires, there is no doubt in my mind that he will go down as the greatest club coach of all time. Having already won everything in Portugal, England, Italy and on the European stage, Mourinho’s next mission is to do the same in Spain (the Copa del Rey has been secured), then Germany, and then internationally. He has bagged six league titles and two Champions Leagues (just one less than record-winning manager Bob Paisley) among many other trophies, and at the age of just 48 could easily double that number of domestic championships.

The modern game is desperately short of star quality - technically, tactically, personally, professionally, both on and off the pitch - and Mourinho’s charisma, controversies and cunning genius enchants us all.

But as Barcelona stated in announcing their intention to report the Portuguese trainer to Uefa, “on Wednesday night Mr Mourinho went over the line”.

His post-match rant, which can be read in full here, slammed referee Wolfgang Stark for the sending-off of himself and Pepe, plus the yellow card that will see Sergio Ramos suspended from the Camp Nou return leg next week. Jose then went on to suggest that the events in his side's 2-0 defeat in the Spanish capital were just further evidence of a pro-Barcelona conspiracy within Uefa, even questioning whether the Blaugrana’s ties with Unicef was the cause.

But it was his quotes directed at Barcelona opposite number Pep Guardiola that were truly out of order, and downright disrespectful - not to mention hypocritical.

"I hope for Pep that he will win the Champions League without any incident at one point,” Mourinho roared.

“I've won two Champions League titles with teams other than Barcelona. I won the tournament with Porto, a team from a country that doesn't usually win, and I won the Champions League with Inter, who hadn't won the trophy for 50 years [sic] and weren't even among the favourites. We won those trophies with hard work, pride, effort and sweat.

"Guardiola is a great coach, but I'd be embarrassed if I'd won the tournament like that after the scandal at Stamford Bridge [two years ago]. If he wins the competition this year, it will be marred by the events at Santiago Bernabeu.”

SELECTIVE MEMORY | Five incidents Mourinho 'forgot' to mention
Man Utd-Porto 2004 CL last-16
Porto-Deportivo 2004 CL SF
Inter-Chelsea 2010 CL last-16
Inter-Barca 2010 CL SF
Barca-Madrid 2011 Copa final



Paul Scholes goal scandalously disallowed
Andrade red for playful kick on friend Deco
Samuel last-man trip on Salomon Kalou
Milito offside turns out to be tie-winner
Pepe should have seen red in final win

Mourinho may be blessed with the memory of an elephant, but he certainly chooses to use it very selectively.
Mourinho didn’t win his Champions League trophies just with “hard word, pride, effort and sweat” - he also received some favourable refereeing decisions (and fortune) along the way. In the 2003-04 edition, his Porto side were on the verge of elimination during their second round tie with Manchester United. Ahead 1-0 in the second-leg at Old Trafford, the dominant English champions had a Paul Scholes goal scandalously disallowed for a non-existent offside decision. This meant that a last-minute strike from Costinha, following a shocking goalkeeper error by Tim Howard, put Porto through 3-2 on aggregate. Mourinho didn’t complain, instead he raced down the touchline for his famous celebration.

In the 1-0 semi-final victory over Deportivo, Jose also benefited from outrageous refereeing. In the first-leg in Portugal, which finished 0-0, one of Depor’s star players Jorge Andrade was sent off for playfully kicking at former team-mate Deco. The pair unsuccessfully remonstrated with referee Markus Merk that they were just fooling around, Andrade repeating the words: “He’s my friend, he‘s my friend”. The red card had a huge bearing on the tie. Without their rock in defence, Deportivo lost the return 1-0 at home, and Mourinho’s Porto proceeded to the final where they beat Monaco 3-0.

Fast forward six years to Mourinho’s second Champions League triumph, and once again Inter’s success was not as black and white as he'd like us to think. Granted, the Nerazzurri were deserving champions, but they had their rub of the green on the path to glory too. In the second round first leg with Chelsea at San Siro, the Londoners would have probably returned to Stamford Bridge with a 2-2 draw had referee Mejuto Gonzalez awarded Chelsea a penalty for a clear last-man trip on Salomon Kalou by Walter Samuel, which could have also potentially resulted in a red card for the Argentine.

“Mourinho may be blessed with the memory of an elephant, but he certainly chooses to use it very selectively.”

- Carlo Garganese
In the classic semi-final win against Guardiola’s Barcelona, Mourinho has every right to complain about Thiago Motta’s unjust red card in the second-leg that forced Inter into a heroic rearguard action in Catalonia. But he overlooks Diego Milito’s offside third goal in Milan, which was ultimately the difference between the two sides on paper.
As for Guardiola’s supposedly “embarrassing” Champions League successes, the 2009 semi-final second-leg at Stamford Bridge between Chelsea and Barca is in danger of turning into a mythical old wives' tale with Barcelona as the evil baddie. The truth is that of the five penalty claims that were turned down by referee Tom Henning Ovrebo, only one was a penalty – the clear handball by Gerard Pique. Dani Alves’ obstruction on Florent Malouda may have been inside the area, but obstruction is only a penalty offence when really serious, and this was not. The same can be said for Eric Abidal’s slight pull of Didier Drogba’s shirt before half-time, which preceded a one-second delay before the Ivorian catapulted himself onto the floor like he’d caught the plague.

In the episode involving Drogba and Yaya Toure on 56 minutes, both were wrestling each other, and even if Kolo’s younger brother did draw back the Chelsea hitman, it was well outside the area. Finally, regarding Michael Ballack’s last-gasp appeal against Samuel Eto’o, the Cameroonian may have had his arm higher than usual, but it was clearly ball-to-hand (the very top of his arm and back), while he also had his back turned. FIFA’s ‘Laws of the Game’ at the time were crystal clear on this.

It is amusing that Mourinho conveniently overlooked the fact that Abidal was wrongly red-carded on 65 minutes for a ‘professional foul’ when Anelka had tripped over his own feet. This forced Barcelona to chase the last 25 minutes of the game with just 10 men. As a result the space opened up for Chelsea on the counter-attack, and it was only after this dismissal that the stonewall Pique penalty incident occurred. It is also peculiar how Mourinho discarded the performance of referee Wolfgang Stark (Yes, the same WOLFGANG STARK from Real Madid vs. Barcelona) in the first-leg at Camp Nou. During that game, Stark waved away an excellent Thierry Henry penalty shout, failed to send off Ballack, and also harshly booked Carles Puyol, forcing Barcelona to start a left-back at centre-back, and a centre midfielder at left-back in the second-leg.

The semi-final comparison to be drawn between Chelsea 2009 and Real Madrid 2011 is that both teams played anti-football against Barcelona. While Mourinho got his tactics spot on in the first two Clasicos of April, and Real Madrid picked their moments to attack Barca, in Clasico III the Special One was far too negative and brought the problems on himself. Pepe’s red card was undoubtedly harsh, but once again Mourinho ignores the fact that his naturalised countryman should have been sent off during the Copa del Rey final a week earlier. The big decisions in Valencia went the way of the Blancos.

Mourinho must realise that, despite his genius, he cannot win every single trophy every year. That is an impossibility and he needs to accept his rare defeats with grace. To attempt to downgrade the achievements of a Barcelona side who are probably the most exciting club XI we have ever seen - and on their way to challenging the likes of Ajax 71-73, Bayern 74-76 and Milan 89-94 for the title of greatest ever club team - is truly dishonourable. To be unable to support his wild theories with facts is hypocritical and slanderous.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/1717/editorial/2011/04/29/2463454/scholes-2004-abidal-2009-milito-2010-jose-mourinho-is-a

@jmaine

 This is what i hate about Nigerians and politics, because he didn't win, you now feel like calling him names? disgraced? how do you mean? a 6 months old party beat parties with more than 10 years in existence, threatened the ruling party with all the money to campaign and do the undoables? yet you called Buhari a disgraced man? he shook a 13 years old party with all the money in Nigeria at their disposal.

All the same, i want all that was listed below done for me and Nigerians, there are our fundamental rights.

odiaero:
^^So who won, have they declared the winner ?

GEJ won

Now, as a Nigerian, i expect light fixed starting from now till 2015 ( i need nothing less than 10,000MW before mid 2012.)

Roads built

Our federal universities raised to a higher standard and not the current glorified secondary schools we have

Water is needed too

FOOD for all, it's an embarrassment for 70% Nigerians to still  live below $1 per day, this needs to be cut down to at least 40% in 4 years.

Security for all, we cannot pray for rioters to repent, do your job, bring in security agents when needed, recruit and retrain the security agents, borrow from CPC's manifesto, introduce state and community police.

Now that you are from the ND, push for TRUE FEDERALISM, please push for the cut down of govt spending, reduce the salaries of these criminals in the assemblies (IF POSSIBLE).


And lastly (which i know he cant do), FIGHT corruption!

Coming with more later after you must have at least done half of what i have on the list.

May God help the country!

We fought the good fight of faith, change and determination, most of those we fought for didn't see any need for our efforts. Well I am glad we did our best, and that history is there to judge US accordingly, as long as GEJ does not fail, my effort won't be wasted, if he fails after all our efforts, then would it be more painful for me to bear.

goggs:
Hey hey dude time out, Why in Gods earth would a Vice Presidential candidate sign a post dated resignation letter? Why can't the parties agree BEFORE the election so that Nigerians will know who their VP is (giving how Jonathan ascended the presidency,this is an important consideration). Why must the agreement be like an agreement in OKIJA shrine?

Look, I was routing for Buhari, but the alliance thing was not done right and as the head of the team, i blame him for messing up the chance.

What am i saying and what are you saying? who should be blamed? doesn't Bakare have the right to sign and not to sign for anything he finds illegal?

^^^^

 Stop saying what you don't know Agba1

Bakare was to drop from the position after winning the election but refused to sign a post-dated document, so stop saying Buhari refused to drop his vice for ACN

you guys should stop lying, at least, it's going PDP's way for now, so just let the final results be released and stop peddling more lies.

@emmatok

 Some of your results are wrong, especially the one from Katsina, CPC scored more than 1.1million votes, but you gave them just 864k, you're PURELY wrong, go back to where you got the results from and have it corrected.

Whatever happens, God knows.

Money politics is not healthy in Nigeria.

Anambra

CPC 4,223
PDP 1,145,169
Anpp 975
14,707 VOTES REJECTED



IMO STATE

pdp 1, 381, 357
acn 14, 821
cpc 7,591

1, 476,479 vote.

17k Rejected


ABIA

PDP 1, 175, 984
CPC 3,745
ACN 4,392
1, 200, 552 CASTED
11,319 VOIDED

^^^^

 No one says you should forcefully not vote for any other person, but to vote because he's a southerner and nice is whats really HARD on me to swallow, all the GEJ people i spoke with couldn't really say any CANDID reason why they voted for him, i just smiled and told them 2015 is coming, they should not forget what they did yesterday.

All in all, too bad both those who voted and didn't vote are going to enjoy or suffer from this outcome.

odiaero:
Man am back

Bro hit me up on YIM, i am waiting for you.

He said he heard from his field officials and he had to report to security agents, why are people castigating him? are you guys trying to say there was no rigging in this election?

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=648426.msg8146772#msg8146772 date=1303041130]From the inception of the idea of a possible alliance between Acn and cpc which is the only way to dislodge pdp,the buhari camp have shown that such cannot happen.first,buhari rejected the appeal for him to step down for ribadu;saying the party with the highest votes in Nass election will produce the president.
unfortunately for buhari,Acn had more slots in both chambers but the greedy man  insisted on contesting.Acn agreed for him to be president and cpc platform will be used but wanted the vp slot.is that too much for tinubu to ask in alliance with cpc ?[/quote]Please quote anywhere you got the bolded from, I don't like liars, they make me sick, i have read almost all the articles on the breakdown and none did i find the boded, so tell us where you heard yours from. even the party involved didn't mention anything of such in their various interviews.


All in all, Buhari said no one should blame anything, politics is just too complicated to understand especially in Nigeria.

Thanks

nusdog:
How can they vote Utomi when he pulled out of the race before election day?

He pulled out for lack of support and knew that it was an exercise in futility.

I KNOW FOR SURE that BUHARI is going to bring him into his govt if he wins.

@Gbenge 77

I rest my case!

If truly the south voted based on competence, then Utomi should have been the one with alot of supporters, but unfortunately this didn't happen.

Is GEJ more qualified intelligent and exposure wise than Pat Utomi?

@KnowAll
 All these rants won't help anything, that happened since more than 25yrs ago, we have been in democracy since 12 years now, why hasn't there be any meaningful development since then? we love the game blame while pushing away the main problem, when IBB removed Buhari after 18 months in office, why didn't the so called democrat ask for  democracy again? because they all knew that the previous people who claimed to be democrat were nothing but criminals, they had no case until 1999. Now till 1999 to now, what has changed? what has democracy given to a man who feeds below $1 a day? compare the life of a Nigerian in 1983 and that of a common man now, whats the difference?

KnowAll:
The good thing about learned southerners and even illiterate southerners is we would embrace him as our President. I have always said we have 3 good men in Ribadu, JEG and Buhari, but Buhari should be mindful of how he came to the lime-light. He was a soldier who mutinied against authority that alone is an offence he has not answered the allegation up till now. If he loses he should accept it in the spirit of sportsmanship. But a man who can carry a gun to get what he wants is similar to an armed robber who chooses to rob people because he has got a gun.

The armed robber has alternative way of making money if he is hungry. Why can't the armed robber go to the market and become " omo lanke" wheel barrow pusher, it is hard job but it would put bread on the table. Same thing with Coupist, they are impatient, greedy and narrow minded.

Why not be a southern literate you claim to be by calling him a tyrant, what he did still remains one of the best things for Nigeria if IBB had not jumped in, he was about putting us back on course, we were getting used to the discipline he was about instilling in our Nigerian life until IBB came and turned Nigeria back to a country where the fittest takes all while the weakness die off.

Shagari was a figurehead just like GEJ is going to be and Shagari's ministers were taking him for a ride, his ministers were driving Nigeria into eternal debt and inflation was going into heaven.

Lets not throw the baby away with the bath water, Buhari is not a saint but he meant well for us in 1983 and meant well for us between 1995-1999 through PTF and still means well for us.

@semid4lyfe

 God knows what i am doing is for the generality of the betterment of Nigeria unlike you who's doing this based on personal interest and on tribal and superstitious sentiments. I am from the SS but i rather go with someone who can actually get the job done than a figurehead for the stature quo.

If he wins (GEJ), fine, i will sit and watch how he drives Nigeria, i know i cant be worse off than how i am because i have never relied on govt for anything (PDP govt), I HAVE 2 GENERATOR to cater for lack of light and a DSTV to cater for poor and bias local channels whose hearts has been eaten down by greed and self centeredness.

All in all, my fate as Nigerians is in the hand of the majority.

odiaero:
Please i need the time the results will be announced today,  anybody?

Later today or early tomorrow.


Bro, i am on YIM and buzzing you. let's talk!!![right][/right]

Lagosboy:
Do you have the NW state results?

From the live news i am watching now, more than 9 states already in the purse of CPC and more going his way, analyst are saying it's too close to call for a clear winner.