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Its holiday season nigguhs!

I'ma hit y'all with a couple bars when I reach my parents place tomorrow!!!

oncolor:
For someone who published a book  titled "Nigeria: Dancing on the brink" in November of 2010, I would take anything he says with a pinch of salt. How else will you justify your book and improve sales if not to perpetuate the "Dancing on the brink" theory.

Is Nigeria not "dancing on the brink"?

A place where the Federal Govt does nothing with over 50% allocation, and is just a bargaining bazaar where the different strongmen of each region send their appointees to chop money.

Besides, how many copies of his book does he shift?

Do you know anyone with any of his books?

His income from book writing adds little to his wallet abeg. . . . I wholly agree that Nigeria is not only dancing on the brink, but moonwalking on it.

When GEJ went out of his way during the presidential election debate to tell the nation that he is loyal to PDP, many did not grasp the full extent of the statement.

If Mesut Ozil refuses to work on his poor fitness, I can see Mario Goetze supplanting him in Der Manschaaaft.

If I was a manager and asked to pick between the two, I'd go for Goetze. Simple reason is that Goetze offers something when the going is tough whilst Mesut becomes a passenger, like against Spain, Barcelona etc.

Mehn, Mario Goetze is the truth!!!

And I love that boy Muller the same way I love Ashley Young and Frank Lamps. . .they get straight to the point! I would love a direct player like Muller at Chelsea. Those are the kinda players that achieve results.

And BTW, I will never disrespect Raul again!

I wonder why Chelsea can't look to the future with young players who are producing like Goetze, instead of always looking to the past and niggas like Torres and Kaka. Methinks Roman is on a two-year time lag.

Hehehehehe. This is the funniest thread today. Even as an anti-GEJ pesin, LWBMB (laugh want burst my belle)

If I write macro to inflate PDP votes inputs, I doubt this old man would even know what is happening.

How did Debo conspire to lose to A-11? Stick a fork in him, he's done.

One more win and Borokiri Boyz is through to the knockouts. Muki darling, I need you to take one for the team and let Borokiri Boyz through next weeks so I can rest some players for the final game of the regular season.

@ Debo,

Are you interested in managing the esteemed Borokiri Boyz for the last two weeks of the season? Even when all seems lost, you can still end the season on a high!

@ Nateevs,

You for just send A-40 to collect in kishi from our balance. I woulda handled him proper.

I can't believe this nugga is about to make you Western Union him his weekend budget for Nkwobi and Abacha.

Will Arsenal finish above Chelsea this season?

And what's happening with Nasri's contract? We'll swap him for Torres.

With or without rigging, GEJ woulda copped more votes, but he may not have copped the 25% in 24 states needed to avoid a run-off.

GEJ played a smart game, managing to lease pressure groups in Nigeria by appointing JEGA whilst gaining the commendation of International observers for the peaceful elections on election day. The main criticism they had of him was that access to media was unfair.

Now GEJ is the winner, let's just cling on to the very slim hope that he will perform contrary to his past history in governance.

Now what's happening in the North, at least initially, looks like pure people power. Since when do you hear of Aboki's burning their Emir's and Galadimas' palaces? The problem with Aboki is that violence will inevitably spill over to Christians.

I advice all Christians to stay well hidden on Friday cos the main rampage always takes place after Friday prayers. Even in Egypt and Tunisia, the biggest protests were seen after Friday prayers.

Should be Nani

Kalou!!!!

dd!!!!!!

hmmmmmm. . .

For GEJ, abeg make una help me play "You be thief (I no be thief), You be robber (I no be robber)" by Fela! Hehehehe


DJ, abeg give me PortHarcourt Son by Duncan Mighty right there!

I christened GEJ "National cake sharer" some 12 months ago due to his penchant for sharing the Excess Crude Account, but it seems he took the nickname too literal. From sharing N70m cake at Independence celebrations to sharing biscuits, the man just can't help himself when it comes to sharing bakery products! Hehehehehe

I hope GEJ cronies would dismiss this story as Sahara DISreporters.

Well done Sahara, always telling the truth, no matter whose ox is gored.

Sahara remains the only independent and coscientious news org out of Naija.

Tis the weekend for Borokiri Boyz to consolidate their spot in the playoffs.

AK47's rent the air/ The militants are here/ Drinking cans of Lowebrau/ Amnesty can't hold us down/ Mumuface is going down/

^^^Can guys also join DK's fan club?

Hot!!!

Nice singing, smooth witty flow, nice production.

Catchy stuff.

Abeg out on plunder make I download for phone. . . .

@ Papabrowne,

Don't patronsise me. Just help me calculate how this 267km of road GEJ has surfaced compares to the 4,440km of road Buhari surfaced in the South alone under PTF.

Some told us he surfaced 15000km of road in the North and only 4440km in the South, yet want us to vote GEJ for surfacing 267km just in time for elections.

Bros, I have only travelled that road 4 times in my life, usually on my way from PH to Lagos to catch a flight from Murtala, and in the 90s around PTF time, it used to take me 6.5 hours from PH to Lagos. Now you're telling us that people spend days on that road in PDP years. Well I wonder how many hours it would take me from PH to Lagos even with GEJ's pre-election resurfacing gimmicks.

Please forget long story and help me divide 267 by 4440, cos my Maths teacher is telling me that Buhari is far more productive

See these cretins celebrating the mere resurfacing of 267km of road which was awarded by YarAdua.


The same cretins told us how Buhari skewed PTF projects in favour of the North and  "only rehabilitated 4,440 kilometres of roads in the South", telling us that 76% of the roads Buhari rehabilitated were in the North.


Unless they have a shaky grasp of Arithmetic, the difference should be clear like 7Up!


When one is accustomed to living with dogs like St Lazarus, they celebrate mere crumbs tossed under the table

Put on plunder for those of us who are mobile abeg

Incase I forgot to mention, let's not forget the invaluable contributions of Maniche, Alexei Smertin and Jiri Jarosik, without whom Lamps would have been sold back to West Ham. Hehehehe. Have a good evening.

@ Nateevs,

Diarra played a sum total of about 4 games in midfield. 95% of his games were at RB. What's next, Ferreira provided "the base for Lamps to shine". Hehehehe.

In the Abramovic years, Gudjohnsen was a midfield substitute. Him playing upfront has nothing to do with Lamps.

Now you've called Parker, Thiago, Diarra, who's next, Geremi and Sidwell? BWAHAHA!

Thiago is wack, whether at Chelsea, Juve or Athletico Madrid, he's a flop.

Now you're telling us Ballack laid the fantastic passes for Lamps to shine. Shebi the same Ballack you tore to shreds after the Inter game, describing him as "mechanical". Of course, others must take the glory so that Lamps will fall, even if its Scott Parker, Geremi, Sidwell or NUNO MORAIS!!!! Hehehehe.

Aime Jacquet taught me that every midfield must have a runner, a destroyer and a passer. Lamps is a runner, but he is also at least competent at keeping possession and destroying.

A good manager would supplement the midfield with a passer like Borja Valero to play the Alonso role, and the central midfield is complete. Lamps is not the problem, he's one of the three solutions. The next thing now is to go and find that Alonso type player instead of castigating one who is likely the best runner in the business, but unlike Ramires (also a runner), has the cool finish and decent passing to match. The closest replica to Lamps on the market is Marek Hamsik. . .and he's the poor mans version.

Once again, even if you have the best passers in the midfield, they would still come acropper without decent wingers.

Mr Nateevs aka "everytime we lose, its Lamps fault" aka "Lamps is finished (every season)". Hehehehehe.

nateevs:
Add to the fact that over the years players like Maka, Thiago, Diarra, Gudjohsen, Ballack, who were fantastic ball players never left creativity to Lamps. . They covered for his inadequacies which allowed him to run into the box and score loads! That's not to be confused with a mid-field maestro. . . Dude is not.


The problem all started when all these players left and the style had to change (ROman wanted fancy football), Lamps was found out. But for Ballack and DEco last season, Lamps would have been poor. Now they have left and all we have are co mechanical dudes - Essien and Ramires - like Lampard, he's been found out.

Hahaha. So now you done change mouth. Last season you told us Ballack was too mechanical, now you're telling us he was the fantastic ball player behind Lamps success.

Thiago cannot hit a straight pass to save his life.

Diarra never played in CM for Chelsea and only had a brief run at right back

Deco was a perennial sub as was Gudjohnsen.

The only person Ill accept there is Maka.

Nateevs, come again, Im not having that!


Now you're telling us Lamps has been found out. Same thing you said last season at some stage. What has he been found out for? We lost the league when he was injured, he's come back and lifted the general play, and even though the lack of movement uptop and wide remains, we can already see slight difference to the team as compared to Oct, Nov, Dec.

You are here ranting Schweinsteiger's name. Ask Schweinsteiger what he was able to create when Robben and Ribbery were out? It takes good movement to make a pass. . . . . and Chelsea have had no movement this season.

You are here calling Shweini's name. When I told you 18 months ago that Schweini is top 5 midfielder in Europe, you were calling Joe Cole's name.

Nuggah, my old wisdom is your recent discovery!

nateevs:
The difference between you and I is the philosophy of the game. . . You are a Mourinho kinda person, I am more like a Pep kinda person. .
I don't hate wingers. I love wingers in my team always. What I can't stand is mechanical mid-fielders. Don't feed me crap by saying you don't build through the middle. . . You don't watch football upside down, tell how many Barca goals come from the flanks?

Ok sir. . . we kindly wait for you to stump the cash to cop Xavi, Iniesta or Fabregas.

cos Diego won't cut it!!! 

Until then, we'll make do with "the best of the rest"

Although when Robben and Duff were here, all this nonsense talk of central midfield wasnt there. Even Thiago was a comfortable member of the midfield.

Even when Scolari and later Ancelotti decided to go with a central midfield axis rather than wingers, Lamps was the only central midfielder who performed, even during Scolari's worst period. 

Of course the reason we lost was cos Lampard was unable to drift wide and dribble a couple of players after it became obvious that none of the wingers would be able to do so. Nateevs!!! 

aieromon:
Chelsea owned the midfield but it must have been obvious to anyone that Ferguson was interested in winning the flanks rather than the midfield.


All our goals came from the flanks.Screw the midfield analysis

Exactly my point. Im not interested in midfield analysis, when I know our midfield did their bit, and the difference was the flanks.

FBS:
How can anyone say Lamps was/is our best player this season? damn! what has he done? scoring pena[i]ritiesss[/i] abi wetin?

You don't count defenders but you include strikers? Are they not ALL outfield players? I've never heard this before walahi!

Yeah point conceded, our defenders and GK are our best players this season, but like I said my mind set is forward thinking hence I removed defenders from the equation. . . . . I set Nateevs a challenge to name the non defenders who played better than Lamps and Im still waiting for a credible answer.

He even told me Ramires, when Ramires has been gobshite until the last 2 months.

Should I list all of them for Nateevs (or yourself if you volunteer) to pick a name?

@ Nateevs,

You want a central midfielder that can drift wide, dribble two players and put a cross in. Well that's certainly not Lamps. And that's not most central midfielders.

You need your central midfielder to drift wide and dribble two? Chairman, what is your winger there for? One man must do everything for you shebi?

Imagine you calling Ramires name. Out of 8 months this season, Ramires was shocking for 6 months and only played half-decent in the last 2 months.

Lamps has played 4 months only and already outproduced him. So once again, name me a non-defender who's outperformed Lamps. They've all been shocking, but as usual, Lamps is the first name you'll call.

Nateevs, I leave you in the hands of the Gods for tonight. If you wanna carry on your flawed thesis tomorrow, I will be ready for our annual kwatar (whenever Chelsea gets knocked out of the UCL by the incompetence of Lotti).

Many teams have won trophies without Lamps and Lamps has won many trophies for Chelsea so what gives?

But I can't let you get away with saying Carrick and Giggs overran our midfield. You must be smoking some good ganja. Carrick and Giggsy did not cross the halfway line in the first half. Possession was 59-41. Even the commentators said Chelsea had stranglehold on midfield.

And you said you like Ramires pace. How many goals or assists has he copped with his pace in his career. Is it better than Lamps off the ball movement? As at 68 mins exact, Sky Sports stats showed Lamps having covered 8.92km as against team average of 7.49km. Keep looking for problems in the wrong place. You will never "build through the middle" to success. How many trophies did Benayoun win with Liverpool? Dreamer!

If you ask Benayoun sef, he will tell you that Pool never played him in central midfield.

And yes, if I say Lamps has been our best player this season that's cos I don't count defenders when talking of such things, otherwise I would go for Cech, Ivanovic and Cashley!

Now tell me which midfielder, striker or winger who's outperformed Lamps this season?

nateevs:
Abeg go sidon. Because you have seen Lampard's name there you are asking frivolous questions.
If Fergie was our manager, Sturridge would have been banging goals.
Borini would have been a steady super sub.
McEchran would have been a steady match changer.
Mikel would have been an AM not a DM.
Kakuta would have been a steady player in the 11.


Don't give me that crap abeg. I dey vex man.

hahaha. Sometimes I wanna slap you when Chelsea loses for backing the decisions of the arch-eyebrowed Italian.

Please post your starting 11 and stop telling us that McEachran this and that. Shebi McEahran would win you UCL? Anuofia! 

Dont you think theres a reason why Wilshere was kept on the back burner for 2 years?

Has Kakuta established himself either at Fulham or Chelsea?

This one no be Championship Manager football game o!

Lemme tell you incase you watch football upside down, our central midfield had no problem today. They dominated possession and stayed camped in Utd's half. The problem, as Gaypumpkin rightly pointed out is lack of movement and pace on the wings and uptop. There is no single winger who can dribble, hit the byline and put in a cross, or take out two players with one run. In the end, Lamps, Essien and Ramires are reduced to playing pass me, I pass you cos theres no one to stretch the play. On the other hand, the only time United pump the pressure on us is when Nani and Park raid down the wing or when Rooney pulls wide (cos Essien blocked off the centre) or Hernandez runs wide or behind. That was the difference over the two legs, and unfortunately, Chelsea dont have those kind of players. . . . so stop looking for problems in the wrong place!

I'm sure we had argument three years ago where I said what Chelsea needs is wingers, and you insisted that we need playmakers.

You have been shouting Essiens name all evening, but Essien is a DM. I dont know what you were looking for him to change the game for. Yes, he is not the same player, but you must be mad to think that Carrick would do better.

Now you called Lamps and Essien's names but omitted Ramires. Me I have no problem with Ramires, but whats the reason behind your not singling him out like Lamps and Essien. Shebi he is no Diego or Benayoun?