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MrCrackles:
hahaha, GCSE pressure has eased off so the kid ghost writer's have penned IBIME a couple of bars!

The depth of flavour I spit is beyond what your tongue is capable of tasting  . . . . Im on some Canibus shit. . . . this is fresh off the press. . . . something I penned last night. . .



Lets switch the agenda/ This nigga’s a bender/
Im switching his gender/ by sticking his [i]d[/i]ick in a blender/
I could spit to infinitude/ You a figure of ridicule/
You should be fitted in a tube. . . .and displayed as ‘Exhibit 2’. . .
in the mausoleum/ next to the corpse of a seaman/
who toured the Aegean/ and fought for his freedom/
against a horde of North Europeans/. . .  like Erik the Red/
I bury the dead/ . . . and haunt the living. . .  till they perish of dread!/
Phuck what Jessica said/ I loved Countess Von Essen instead. . .
and impressed her in bed/ . . . plus I wrestled with Ted/
And Spottyman and Mother Nature. . . and Texas Pete/
My expertise/ . . left Nichola Tesla. .  impressed with ease!/
I got the best critique/ from reviews in The Source/
I even won friends. . .  when I won the NME Awards!/
I passed the exam/. . .and threw the matriculation hat in the stands/
9 out of 10 of my worst critics. . . are casual fans!/

I knew it was coming. . . . he was too vocal during that Tompolo saga. . .

Scratch that!

I burn mics/ while you flow off-track like dirt bikes/
Do the math. . . the final solution is Third Reich/
Ya bird like/ spandex niggas prefer tights/
I could kill a mocking bird. . . but I prefer to hurt Kites/
You left broke while I earn rights/ You moles digging holes are worm like/
Im King of the Hill like termites/
bitches turn dykes/ when I insert proboscis/
ya turgid flows is/ worse than a herd of goats is/
I kill nerds quicker than a burst thrombosis/
When the earth inverts, I curse the solstice/
I was interned to Moses/ and learnt to lead my people/
I burnt the seed of evil/ till men were free and equal/
I previewed the prequel/ pre the sequel/
In two minds over the ring bequeathed to Smeagel/
Till I was made State Property like Beanie Siegel/
A rich man like me couldn’t squeeze through a needle/

@ labbiyemi,

I totally agree with your stance on this issue and your fight to defend your copyright. At the same time, Gamine is just a consultant and does not not know the hullabaloo technical details behind it so it better to aim your ire at the company than Gamine as a person.

@ ElRazur, you are out of order. A man is trying to defend his copyright and you are here making unnecessary self-absorbed arguments. This is something the man has poured his sweat into, and is not to be trivialised. For you this argument is just another platform to display your debating skills but for him it is everything.

wow . . . . . an argument about maps and Becomerich is nowhere to be seen

Hey, dont mind my spelling. You and I know that there is nothing 'the man who invented grammar' can teach me about grammar. 

debosky:
The fact that Eboue did not make egregious mistakes early in 07/08 does not make them tenable now.The fact is, many had tolerated the OK aspects of his game while detesting his gamesmanship and general rudeness - there are many instances on tape where a colleague would give Eboue instruction and he would mouth off in return. When even the good aspects started deteriorating, opposition grew - this culminated (for emphasis it didn't start) with the booing incident when fans could take no more.

Prior to that, he had been slagged off in chat rooms, on blogs and the like - so have Bendtner, Song and others - why didn't they crumble?

Note I'm not justifying the booing, but Bendtner was booed, but got stuck in and improved. Eboue seems to have done so himself (to some extent) so enough of crying over spilled milk.

Finally, the crux of the matter!. . . . . Eboue was booed for his attitude, not his game. . . . its a chicken and egg situation. .  . did poor form precede the booing or did booing precede the poor form?. . . . it's quite obvious that the it was the latter.

debosky:
Are you dyslexic?

Surely you must realise there is a difference between the name [/i]Cech and the [i]nationality Czech.

Mumu, while you are busy analysing my typos, I have already been to Prague and back.

debosky:
To those talking about 'damaged confidence', was Belletti not a defender in Barca before being pushed into midfield for Chelski? Movement of a player should not result in complete disintegration of all ability.

pfft. . . . .I wouldn't expect you to know that Belletti started his career as a central midfielder with Cruzeiro despite the fact that Belletti has stated this himself many times. . . . now, this so-called 'miscontrolling and tackling of his own players' by Eboue. . . .did it occur in the first-half of 07/08, or is this a recent phenomenom which has only occured in reaction to the booing and antagonism against him. . . . infact, the match in which he tackled his own player was the infamous sub-on/sub-off match where he was roundly booed by disgraceful Arsenal fans.

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ALL OF U R BIG FOOLS. WUTS IS SO FAKE ABOUT THE T-PAIN'S VOICE. iS SO HARD TO BLIV DAT FREESTYLE DID A JOINT WIT T-PAIN. PEOPLE AS FAR I'M CONCERNED, DAT IS SO T-PAIN, WHETHER SAMPLED, STOLEN OR VOICED TOGETHER. PLSSSS!! STOP HATING[/quote]Sharrap dia bush man! The only real T-Pain thing there was at the beginning when he called his name 'T-Pain'. The rest of it sounds like a Calabar-pseudo-Yankee man on vocoder.

Chelsea have signed 18 year old Cech goalkeeper Jan Sebek. We should also look at signing the Serbian U-21 keeper as back-up to Cech. The boy is quite good.

nateevs:
Glen Johnson . . ?


@Ibime.

I heard FIFA is serious about enforcing the 6 + 5 rule and that's why we are running after a handful of English players.

That doesn't excuse crap. Anyway, lets hope Liverpool win the race for his signature. We all remember Glen Johnsons defensive frailties.

Come, without Sauron and/or Wordsmith in this tourney, I may have to pull out. . . . that would be a big demotivator for me. . . . I cant be wasting my bars on the likes of Prawn Crackers

debosky:
Correction - they exerted all their energy on the delectable, scantily clad women of the night who proceeded to part them from their well earned bonus dollars.

hehehehe. . . . those Egyptian players have a lot of explaining to do to their wives. . . . they should be brought before the Masjid and punished Sharia style!

Egypt are a bloody disgrace! They pray to God when they score a goal, only to go back to their hotel and phock prostitutes who stole their money from their hotel, then they come out the next day to lose like imbeciles. I know why they lost. They know that they will be crucuified when they get home for that prostitue palaver, now its gonna get even worse for them!  

PapaBrowne:
Nuhu Ribadu's effort in checkmating which thief?? How do u get ur info sef. Amaechi wasn't yet Governor of Rivers State when Nuhu was removed as chairman of EFCC.
Not every bad news about anybody should excite you. Always be objective in your analysis.

Ribadu stopped him from running in the election.

Amaechi is doing better than Odili but no doubt he is chopping money. The fruit never falls too far from the tree. We remember Amaechi was part of Odilis clique and we remember that Amaechi as speaker of the House covered up many atrocities in Rivers State.

debosky:
Eboue had ONE good season - a flash in the pan performance

A flash in the pan who has never played poorly at right-back over any prolonged period. I wouldn't call that a 'flash in the pan'. I'd say he has a 100% success record at his favourite position!

You lack critical reasoning skills.

debosky:
So basically, he had less than half of 05/06 and one good month in 06/07, is that enough for you?

You are a retard. Is POTM mutually exclusive of good performance in the rest of the season?

Can you categorically say his 06/07 was poor? Of course not! Only Gary Neville and Pascal Chimbonda bettered him in that season.

I am still waiting for you to tell me when Eboue had a poor string of games at right-back!

We are talking about his capabilities as a right-back here and NOTHING ELSE!

They say Eboue's form improved toward the end of the season. If I remember correctly, Sagna was injured at the end of the season and Eboue was back in his natural position.

debosky:
I am avoiding going down this route, it will distract from the current debate.

You simply cannot make a definitive case for it. Your folly dawns on you when you consider the qualities of other right-backs in the prem and actually realise that Eboue is arguably one of the best right-backs in the prem.

debosky:
No one was baying for his blood in away games, still he stunk up the house there as well. He lost his basic footie skills, and it wasn't down to booing. .

I am not interested in his performances in midfield. Besides, confidence is not something you snap in and out of depending on if you're playing home or away.

I even venture to say that Eboue was competent at worst in midfield last year, forming part of a midfield who led the premiership for 3/4 of the season. Whilst many criticised his final delivery, he still did a decent job in midfield. Arsenal fans were slowly grumbling away in the background about his attitude/spitting/slapping/hotheadedness/final delivery till it reached a crescendo this season. It was only when the grumbles started turning into full-scale booing that Eboue completely lost his form. I add that NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS CAN BAKARY SAGNA PLAY IN MIDFIELD TO THE LEVEL EBOUE PLAYED IN 07/08, despite doubts about his decision-making in the final third. 



The writer of the piece below sums the Eboue problem up perfectly:

http://www.soccernews.com/eboue-to-leave-arsenal-opinion-will-be-divided/20133/

debosky:
No - Eboue had only the 05/06 season to talk about, when has his form been good after that?

Rubbish, you have said it yourself that his 06/07 was injury hit. Despite that he impressed, even picking up a player of the month award.

debosky:
Best RBs? I don't think so.

I am still waiting for you to name one better apart from Bosingwa and Sagna!

debosky:
You are a dimwit. Is it my fault that Eboue cannot control the ball often and makes the worst passes in the team? .

Rubbish! How do you expect him to control the ball when a hate-mob is baying for his blood? Do you expect him to pass the ball like Denilson when he is a right-back playing in midfield. Of course, he would look out of place, especially in Arsenals uber-passing structure.

debosky:
You are a retard. When was Flamini a hate figure? People were disappointed that he was not performing, how is that hate? So we should mollycoddle players simply to prove that we don't 'hate' them?.

Only someone who lacks foresight would claim that Flamini was not performing. As far as I was concerned, I was always impressed with Flamini. I saw him as a good squad player, yet Arsenal fans loved talking rubbish about him. You would not hear that level of antagonism toward a squad player like Belletti etc.

debosky:
Song was worse than dog's turd when he went on loan to Charlton, but he's improved. I don't understand how fans will not castigate players not pulling their weight.?.

You are a nincompoop. Song was FAR AND ABOVE the best player at Charlton. He was highly praised for his exquisite passing (funny enough, something we are yet to see at Arsenal). Astute observers have commented on his loan spell at Charlton: http://thegoonerforum./2008/06/07/alexandre-song-finally-blossomed/


You need to start watching football with your eyes, not forming opinions from that idiot Myles P.

debosky:
Why should we compare them to Eboue's best in 05/06? It's obvious that the WHOLE Arsenal defence was exceptional that year (largely due to Martin Keown's coaching stint at the time).

With that influence removed, Eboue has returned to his base level. Put any RB worth his salt in the same environment and they will outperform Eboue.

People talk like I hate Eboue, I just know there's so much potential in him, but he's not really using his head nor trying to improve. That's the sad thing. I personally want him to remain at the club - he still has a lot to offer as back up.

This is real rubbish. If the Arsenal defence made Eboue why didn't any of them get nominated? What can Keown teach Eboue about full-back play? I hope you know that Keown is still coaching at Arsenal.

The fact remains that Sagna was not bought because Wenger wanted to replace Eboue, but because Wenger thought Eboue would make a great winger. He even compared him to Garrincha.

It is quite obvious that Eboue's poor form has only coincided with his deployment to the right-wing.

Eboue is a top quality right-back, an attacking one, with 5 lungs and the ability to work the whole right-flank from goal-line to goal-line. He is defensively sound and an amazing athlete. If Sagna wasn't at Arsenal, Eboue would settle comfortably back into his old role and still be one of the best right-backs in the prem. All the other right-backs I mentioned have nothing on Eboue. Glen Johnson is a mistake waiting to happen. Arbeloa is physically weak and has nothing to offer going forward. Habib Beye is injury prone. Zuiverloon is up and coming. Corluka started like a train on fire but his form has dipped at Tottenham. Paintsil is still redeeming his battered reputation from his West Ham days and Wes Brown is the eternal sicknote. None of these players would ever impress the whole of Europe like Eboue did.

I have a problem with Arsenal fans (of which Debosky is the main culprit), which is their predilection to riding the bandwagon. They do not remove themselves from the situation and accurately analyse players, they just jump on the bandwagon like some bovine creatures. A lot of them Arsenal players are underperforming twats, yet they will pick on ONE player and destroy his confidence, booing him from start to finish like a mindless hate mob.

Yes, Eboue frustrated on the right-wing. Suddenly, Eboue is a hate-figure at Arsenal. Flamini used to be a hate-figure, as did Alex Song. Diaby is currently copping it. Ade is copping it, maybe for just reasons, but the hatred toward him is not in keeping with his iniquities.

Freestyle is a Charlatan. Since when did T-Pain develop a Yakee-pseudo-Naija accent. Only bush people would be fooled by this. I declare Freestyles rap career officially over for pulling a stupid stunt like this. Does he think we are all bush-boys living in Bongo?

debosky:
Nah mate, I can't believe you're saying this.
You better edit your original post. Mr 'you can't catch me with any footie gaffe on nairaland'

Ingrates like you wouldnt even know that Eboue was nominated. What happened was that I was watching the presentation ceremony while drinking a glass of Southern Comfort. . . . somewhere, somehow, the drink must have got to my brain leading me to think that Eboue had won the award. 

debosky:
Seriously this is still amusing me - so Eboue is better than all the RBs at Man Utd and Liverpool (let's even forget about the lower clubs)? Seriously??

O-boy drop some names. . . . enough talking. . . . lemme help you out with some names. . . . Glen Johnson, Arbeloa, Corluka, Zuiverloon, Beye, Wes Brown, Paintsil. . . . these are the only decent right-backs in the premiership as of now. . . . pick anyone of those names for comparative analysis and convince me that they are as good as Eboue was when he last played right-back in 05/06 (discounting his injury stricken 06/07)

Debosky, name any EPL right-back better than Eboue apart from Bosingwa and Sagna and stop faffing around!

Oya, get cracking! 

Sorry I meant to say that Eboue was nominated for UEFA DOTY in 2006, not that he won. The other nominees were none other than Maldini and Puyol.

That Eneramo is the worst striker I've seen for Super Eagles since Benedict Akwuegbu. They need to send him to where he came from. Amodu thinks he can bring the Didier Drogba factor into the team by winning headers and sturvs. Well he's rubbish in the air and slow on the ground. Nigeria needs a dominating centre-forward when we are chasing games like this and no Nigerian striker has the Didier Drogba factor like Anichebe. Even Isaac Promise is better than that ingrate called Enemaro.

Olofinjana is too slow to keep up with their counter-attacks. Where is Keita?

Kanu to come on on 60 minutes cos Uche Kalu is missing.

They are worrying Taiwo. He needs to mind his flank more judiciously.

Wetin Tayo-D dey do for here?  

Lets go!

As the main proponent of the "Wenger knows" philosophy which has so insidiously pervaded this thread, I wonder how Debosky still has the credibility to engage in footie arguments without any hint of embarassment.

debosky:
What are you smoking? Lord knows I need some of it. Let's for a microsecond even accept your asinine and preposterous suggestion, is he better than Sagna? Secondly, he's CRAP at crossing and can't shoot on goal - why can't he work on that part of his game? All in all, I don't think Eboue should be sold, he is a competent (if not too smart) back up for Sagna. Is deployment to the right side the reason Eboue lost ability to control the ball? What a useless excuse! How many players get moved around to different positions? Is that an excuse to lose basic abilities like completing passes and retaining possession? No one expected Eboue to be Overmars, but simple expectations - control the ball, be able to pass and deliver the occasional good cross seemed beyond him for large stretches of the season. If he is not better at Sagna at defending or better than Walcott at attacking, where will he end up? On the BENCH. If he's not satisfied, he should UP his game.

Simple - besides Bosingwa and Sagna, can you name a better right-back in the premiership?

The same player who was European defender of the year in 2006? You are a nitwit!

All this nonsense you are yarning above about Eboue not being able to control the ball, I hope you know that the primary function of a right-back is to run unto the ball, not to receive possession with his back to defenders as is the case when he plays in midfield. How then can he be faulted for having an imperfect touch when the situations in which he receives the ball are entirely different for both positions. It is imperative to recognise that Eboue is being judged on his performances at right-back, not in midfield. I venture to add that Bakary Sagna will be ten times worse than Eboue if he was forced to play in midfield. He does not possess anywhere near any of the attributes required to play that position. At least Eboue has some.

debosky:
Charlatan indeed - was he not part of the invincibles side? did he not win 2 FA Cups and a league title as an ever present? Wow, we definitely need more of such 'charlatans' around. Kolo is a dedicated Arsenal player, who ALWAYS gives 100% on the pitch. You can never doubt him for commitment and drive, although he isn't the best under high pressure and always seems to play his best alongside a CB dominant in the air,

Rubbish. What worth is a defender if he needs an organiser to help him through. I have always considered Toure's positioning to be atrocious. Whilst ingrates such as yourself were wowed by his last-gasp recovery challenges in years gone by, I was appalled that his incompetent sense of positioning allowed such situations to develop in the first place. I said the same about Micah Richards 2 years and the truth of my assertion is being borne out for all to see. Unfortunately for Toure, he has now lost that recovery pace which helped him remedy situations in the past and is now useless as a defender. I do not need to highlight his numerous mistakes over the past two years. Chelsea and Man Utd fans laugh that such an incompetent charlatan could be posing as a top-4 defender. Take Man City's money and run! No other relevant team in World football will even look at Toure twice!

I must defer to the ubiquitous Dede1 on the issue of the 1962 elections for I know he was of voting age during that period and probably participated in the aforementioned elections. . . . without seeking to damn him with faint praise, even my own father could not compete with Dede1 when it comes to 'first hand experience' of the 1st Republic for he was just a child at that time. . . .   . . . . however, NCNC victories in the minority areas of the former eastern region must be seen through the altered prism of minorities struggle to find relevance within the WaZoBia trichotomy which controlled the political process at the time. . . . comparing NDC's efforts to an infinitely better resourced NCNC during that period is akin to comparing the respective leverage of Mr Biggs and McDonalds in the pursuit of new markets. . . . however, I wholly disagree with Dede1's statements regarding the success or lack thereof of Adaka-Boro's boys during the war; and I also disagree that Okrika can only be bequeathed a mention in the annals of PH history out of "sheer magnanimity"   . . . . however, I have no wish to go over this argument with Dede1 again.

MrCrackles:
With renewed speculation about Kolo Toure leaving Arsenal, i am not really happy!
I dont want to lose Kolo Toure
I will rather have SIlvestre and Eboue get the fuc.k out of the greatest team in England, ARSENAL!

I have always known that Arsenal fans possess an inate predilection to selective inanity. Whereas Emmanuel Eboue would be well respected and accepted into any club as one of the worlds best right-backs (top 20), Kolo Toure is a miserable charlatan who hath fooled the Arsenal fans into believing that he is deserving of a place in a Champions League team.

This nonsense about Eboue started when he was deployed on the right-side of midfield. Brainless Arsenal fans, in their Geordie-esque fervour have been whipped into a frenzy and severely misinformed as to the abilities of a certain Mr Eboue and although only fleetingly, a certain Mr Song. I am wholly convinced that the folly of their beliefs about a certain Mr Diaby will also be exposed over time, if not at Arsenal, then at his next club.

hehehehehe. . . . . Dede1 never disappoints. . . .  . . . . his posts are always witty and captivating. . .

This is how Naija treats it soldiers, yet these same soldiers would carry out all manner of atrocities in the name of serving Naija.

Thanks to Naijakings constant hammering of the abandoned property issue, I have been forced to do some research. I must readily admit that I did not know that the abandoned property saga was a state-sponsored one, for I thought it was just a case of neighbours occupying abandoned property. Hence I must denounce Rivers States enactment of the abandoned property act as being akin to a Hitler-esque annexation of Jewish property. It is vital for the normalisation of Igbo-Ijaw-Ikwerre relations that the victims of this act are compensated. However, I doubt this will happen as victims are rarely recompensed in the jungle called Nigeria with all its competing idiosyncrasies. I dare to suggest that a compensation scheme will go a long way toward dousing the flames of Ndigbo antagonism over ‘betrayal’ in the civil war. This simple act of recompense would perhaps be a political masterstroke on the part of the Rivers State minorities to gain the alliance of Ndigbo and usher in a new spirit of forgiveness.

However, I must stress that the victims of this shameful law are not victims of greed per se, but victims of a high-stakes political game over the soul of Port-Harcourt. In a city which transverses the boundary between Okrika and Obio-Akpor at present day Isaac Boro park, conservative elements of Ndigbo have long sought to write Okrika out of the history of Port-Harcourt by claiming PH as an ‘Igbo City’ with no reference to the diverse composition of the city. This is evidenced in several writings. Hence, I posit that the victims of the shameful abandoned property act are victims of a fightback against Igbo dominance in a city where the non-indigenous Igbos outnumbered the ethnic indigenes at the outbreak of the civil war. The minorities of Rivers State had sought to reverse the recent influx of Ndigbo into the city in response to the old agage that: an argument is usually won by force of numbers.

Now, I hope this thread will not degenerate into another endless argument over PH cos I know that Dede1 is ready to pounce.    I am just trying to provide some political context, not excusing the abandoned property act which I have roundly condemned, nor trying to start any argument over PH.

Chelsea and Liverpool have had bids accepted for Glen Johnson.

I wonder who made this stupid decision. It makes no business sense bidding £17.5m for a player we sold for £3m. Why didn't we insert a buy-back clause? GJ used to make one mistake per game when he was at Chelsea and that hasn't changed. Abi Chelsea don tire for Bosingwa?