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Real Madrid midfielder Rafael van der Vaart expects to join Chelsea this summer. "I hope the signing will be closed soon," said the Dutchman. (Daily Mail)

igboitalo:
lula is not white stop saying rubbish

You dey mind the mammal?

Obasi Ogbuke no doubt!!!

doyin13:
make una no mind Ibime. . .the boy na bad belle person.

He lived a sedentary life in Okrika up till 1996 before
like play like play he enter London.

E think say everybody spend their secondary school days
fishing in the creeks.

I've always told ju men to stay away from English wey pass their level.

How can a life spent on arduous pursuits such as swimming and fishing be described as sedentary?

BTW, I was the no 1 crab catcher in Borokiri. I taught the boys the art of baiting crab traps with onions instead of yam and yield shot up tenfold.

doyin13:
People still dey wear timbs this day and age. . . .

Suede for that matter.

Orisirisi.

Sauron will never grow up. Bush man.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=201266.msg3633300#msg3633300 date=1237838500]This is ridiculous!!!

Have u been to the new Wembley?? Are u guys nutz??
Millennium stadium is better than the Emirates never mind Wembley stadium.
Wembley should be the fucking best anywhere in Europe by a country mile.
The accessibility, seats, food/drinks and the rest rooms are top draw. . . . .U can't compare it to anywhere i have been in the UK(not even OT).

Can the Emirates be converted to host a grand prix like this??
[img]http://image.motortrend.com/f/motorsports/schumacher-will-return-for-the-2008-race-of-champions/10105497+cr1+re0+ar1/wembley-stadium.jpg[/img][/quote]Im hitting Wembley for the first time next Wednesday for Ukraine match. I shall see, but I doubt it can be as comfy as Emirates, especially considering how rubbish the old Wembley was.

Please, my parents raised me well. If you like, make you open your own nyash. Im keeping schtum!  

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=252254.msg3652003#msg3652003 date=1238172235]U must be an amateur![/quote]Shoplifting was a pasttime for me in ma younger days. We could it with our eyes closed. I nearly put Co-Op out of business.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=252254.msg3651953#msg3651953 date=1238171628]Marks n Spencer are the biggest victim cos they don't tag their goods. . . . .[/quote]You must be a professional!

Dr Kitaun:
@Ibime

speak for urself . . .

some of us had wealthy enuff parents . . ._{dont try to decode that cos I never said my pops is/was wealthy} 

but then I started supported Arsenal without having to view so much of matches . . .howzthat ?

almost everybody in my set way back 1990/1991 had a club in Europe, we had a guy then in Mayflower that was nicknamed ARSENAL and he was a good player and the name suit a lot of us so we decided following results on the back pages of Sunday Times, Concord, Tribune, Sketch and Punch (best believe they werent even the leading news daily then). I had a couple of friends that were doing the local baba ijebu on em clubs them . . .

Are you trying to say that you are an Arsenal fan from 1991?    Nama shobiri!

My point is that whether you had money or not, there was no way to watch EPL matches cos even those large rotating satellite dishes would not give you EPL matches. I know cos we used to tap satellite from our wealthy neighbour. . .

I remember we used to play paper and pen football in school. . . . everybody pick your team, then we play World Cup. . . . .I don't remember anyone picking an English club sha except some guys who picked Everton cos of Daniel Amokachi. . . . . back then, guys would pick Ajax, PSG, Bayern, Lazio, Parma, Inter, Juve, Barca, Madrid, Deportivo, even Nantes (cos of SiaSia). No one ever picked an English team.

There are no doubt an outlying minority who followed English football, maybe due to links with England and such, but there was no PRACTICAL way of watching EPL back then, unless you were involved in night travel or teleportation

mukina2:
Ibime you are a bully

Why na?. . . . . Mustay is a sound guy. . . . .

With the exception of Arsenal fans of 1998 vintage, there is a strong possibility that any Naija-based person claiming to have supported an English club pre-DSTV is telling porkies and must be queried. . . . we couldn't even get EPL games on Satellite in Naija. . . . and I am not talking cable, I am talking satellite dish!. . . . EPL teams were nothing but notches on continental teams' bedposts during the nineties. . . hence any Naija man that claims they started supporting English teams from viewing UCL matches is most likely telling porkies as well (****cough, cough, _tkb  ) . . . Dayokanu can testify. . . .

Mustay:
na u sabi.


you are not MUSTAY so stop writing like I am a JM maniac.

in fact, i woulda loved Ranieri to stay a little longer.

I ain't crazy about all these "na me be number one fan" or "na me sabi dem pass" kinda ishes, after all, i got my own career too na

whether date na 94 or 2099, that one no dey bring money into my pocket.


Confirm your wrongful 'accusations' by reading my earliest posts on Nairaland (BB not DD).

hehehehehehe. . . . . no need to fight. . . . na you talk am for that your blog that you were "finally converted" when DD joined despite 'leaning' toward Chelsea for some time. . . 7 years is a long time to 'lean' hombre. . . if you leaned any longer, you would have become the leaning tower of Pisa  . . . . . no Chelsea fan would be talking about moving to Newcastle with Babayaro. . . . .Babayaro was a non-entity at Chelsea. . . most Nigerians who chose Chelsea thanks to Babayaro developed a preference for Graeme Le-Saux after a couple of years. . . Baba simply became an afterthought, just like Mikel is an afterthought now. . . . A true Chelsea fan wouldn't be talking about Mustapha Hadji either. . . .my assertion is that you were simply aware of the EPL due to Baba and Hadji's stint in England, but you were no Chelsea fan. . . .  thats like me saying I am a Nantes fan because I used to follow SiaSia's progress with Nantes in the early 90's. . . . it's utter codswallop!. . .  . . . but then again, I am not MUSTAY!

Mustay:
@ topic I support Chelsea simply because of one guy - babayaro!!!


I loved him at Atlanta '96 and I just had to stick with him. However, he left during JM's era and then when I thought of following him to 'castle (nonsense ), Drogba became my favourite. So like Beyonce says, he's IRreplaceable.

So averagely the era was '98. and not forgetting Mustapha Hadji for coventry then!

Babayaro came to Chelsea in 1997, Drogba joined in 2004. I read somewhere else where you said Drogba informed your decision to support Chelsea. Stop trying to stretch back the dates. You cannot tell me it took you 7 years to convince yourself to become a fully-fledged Chelsea fan. Yes, Babayaro was at Chelsea and yes, you followed him from a distance, just like I followed Kanu when he was at Arsenal. However, the truth is that you became a Chelsea fan in 2004. Whats all this prevarication?

I missed it. My Sky plus box couldnt record cos someone forgot to pay the bill. I had to go to bed early so I had to miss the show.

Richy, you get time to give these guys open forum to discuss their grievances sha. If I were you, I'd just delete their nonsense thread and give em no recourse to democracy. Wetin them think say e be?

Shawn is everybody's favourite. Dude can really hit the high notes. Check out his reaching on "Doing just fine". I thought his vocal chords were gonna snap.

That strip is wack. I always prefer buying the away strip cos its more classy.

I would vote for a gay guy and an atheist, but never an idol worshipper. Na them chop money pass to use for ritual.

I think Huxley may have been abused by a Roman Catholic priest in his younger years. Who send if bible is real or not? Let those who enjoy it enjoy it abeg.

I am in if Sauron is in.

@ Doyin,

Were you supporting Portsmouth in Division 3? Thanks for reminding me about Dmitry Kharine. Receive my handshake. I wasn't a Chelsea fan in 1994 so the 4-0 defeat to Man Utd didn't hurt my feelings at all.


@ Crizzle,

Dont take it serious!   


@ Sharon, A-40

May Amadioha strike you down!


@ tkb,

Im just playing. No questions for you.

tkb417:
100%

It will take me 10 weeks to find some non-googlable questions. Be patient! Lemme dig into my memory vault. My memory is photographic, but I wanna make sure the questions are waterproof. I know you will be consulting Sharon on YIM to help you out so I need to pose questions not just for you, but for him as well. 

Nateev is obviously Switch. He must really like Nateevs. To be quite honest, the Switch guy can be quite funny at times.

tkb417:
story!!! tell us the reason now and dont go fabricating stories

I have told the story many times. I was converted in the womb and born with a Chelsea logo on my chest just like Mohammed's aposthetic story. 

Seriously though, I came to UK in 1996. When I got here, boys in school kept disturbing me as to which team I support but I always told em Ajax and Inter. As I started watching Prem, I could relate with Zola, Vialli, Gullit et al cos I had seen countless Serie A games in Nigeria. So, I was moving toward Chelsea. What tipped the scale was one day in February or March 1997 when Liverpool were playing Chelsea at Anfield. Pool were leading 2-0 at half time but Chelsea came back to win 4-2. It was the most entertaining game that season. That summer Di Matteo rocketed a goal past Boro in 40 seconds to secure the FA Cup. Babayaro also joined in summer 1997 and the deal was sealed. I can tell you about all the players we had back then from the obscure ones like Bernard Lambourde, Andy Myers, Eddie Newton, Michael Duberry, Frank Sinclair, the Georgian substitute keeper (I've forgotten his name momentarily). I remember coming home from church one Sunday to find Man Utd trouncing Chelsea 5-0 at half-time in FA Cup and my eyes were welling with tears listening to the radio in the car. The match eventually finished 5-3. I believe this was 1997/1998 or 1998/1999 season.

Coincidentally, my grandfather was a Chelsea fan and so is my uncle. They are from Kingston in Surrey/West London. However, this did not influence my decision to follow Chelsea at all.


Now if I ask you non-googleable questions about Man Utd in the late 90's, would you be able to answer?

Black and White TV in 1994 indeed!

tkb417:
i dont follow footie on goal.com just like our self proclaimed lord of european footie whose penchant for faslehood on this blog knows no limit.

Shut it hombre!!! If you like believe, if you like no believe. Wetin bala me?

tkb417:
(1.) tell us why u support Chelsea and stop being a di'ck head

(2.) The 4-0 spanking was a day ill never forget and eversince then, Barca remains one of the most hated club for me apart from the natural hatred for Pool.

(1.) Calm down dear! 

If you must know, I started supporting Chelsea in 1996. Before that, my team was Ajax. I shall tell you the reason later. 

(2.) If you weren't a Man Utd fan in 1994, what is the reason for hating Barca?

Funny enough, the first Man Utd match I saw was 1-0 Charity shield against Liverpool (I cant remember who won) in 1992. I was in holiday in UK at the time. Despite my connections to the UK, I could never bring myself to support an English team until I actually moved here full time. Like every reasonable Nigerian, I was too busy watching Serie A and German League to busy myself with English teams, unlike johnny-just-come wey dey claim 1994. 

dayokanu:
You dey mind them? SOme people started supporting a club because the team lost 4-0 That had no recognised star in football Not Overrated Cantona.

Don't mind these charlatans. If I ask any of them a non-googlable Man Utd question from the late 90's, they wouldn't be able to answer.

tocdee:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-1164580/MARTIN-SAMUEL-Flying-Dutchmans-lesson-Gerrard.html

Quote from that link:

There is a reason Steven Gerrard is not asked to play for England in the same position he plays for Liverpool, and his name is Wayne Rooney. Those who think that the great conundrum of England selection still concerns Gerrard’s relationship with Frank Lampard are living in the past.

They occupy different areas of the field now and one might as well debate whether John Terry and Gareth Barry are mutually exclusive. Gerrard versus Rooney is the issue these days because Gerrard performs so brilliantly for Liverpool at deep centre forward, behind Fernando Torres, and that is where Rooney expects to play for England (except with Emile Heskey as his foil, which might explain why England are not quite up there with Spain yet).

The teaser for Fabio Capello, the England manager, is whether he indulges Gerrard, as the man in form, and shunts Rooney to a wide area, or whether he keeps Rooney in a role that, this season, has seen him turn in his best international performances since the 2004 European Championship


I've always considered Martin Samuel to be the most astute analyst in print media.

Odili would be on the bench since the judge gave him 'blanket' immunity from prosecution on ALL charges.

Ancelotti would be a big mistake, Rijkaard even worse. Who knows? Story is that Ancelotti is Florentino Perez' "promise" to the Real Madrid fans in the upcoming elections since he can't secure Wenger. Ancelotti himself has said he wants to take Ivory Coast to 2010 World Cup and is willing to do it for free.

You guys should stop lying mehn. I watched that 4-0 game. It wasn't so much an ass whooping as a public lynching. Anybody that says he started supporting Man Utd because of that match is a bloodclot liar.

Either it’s too early in the morning or I’m sensing an attritional attraction between Blue Diva and Cristalz. . . . I hope their attraction is purely platonic lest I contemptuously deny any seminal attraction I already hold toward the aforementioned ladies. . . . drawing an allegory from my love of cars, you can deduce from my last statement that I am neither averse to the classic (BlueDiva) nor chassis model (Cristalz). . . . However at this juncture, I would like to interject this debate with postulations from a blue perspective.

Cristalz:
First, where you placed your own comma is uncalled for (emboldened).
Second, it's ''it's'', not ''its'' (while we're on the comma thing).

I cannot believe that ma darling Cristalz would try to prove agidi by pedantically and condescendingly castigating Blue Diva for her non-application of an apostrophe sign. By the same token, I would like to remind her that the sign in question is not a[i] comma[/i], but an apostrophe. On the other hand, Blue Diva’s chastisement of Cristalz was a justifiable attempt to disambiguate the latter's comments  in order to prevent slander of the former's person. I hope this clarifies things.




Chelsea 1996 

@ All


Anelka is vital to Chelsea's chances as he is the only one providing width for us recently. For some reason, GH doesn't fancy Kalou. Q is cuptied for Pool game whilst Stoch is too much of an unknown quantity. Lets not even talk about Malouda. As for the full backs, they will be unable to provide width as Riera and Kuyt will lock them down. Committing full-backs to attack is never a sensible ploy at Anfield with the ever present threat of counter-attack from Gerrard and Torres.

I would be extremely confident of our chances if we employed a 4-3-3 with Anelka on the left, Kalou on the right and Drogba in the centre. With Anelka injured, I fear a narrow diamond formation will be employed. The same formation which flopped for Scolari and which has flopped for GH in the last 3 games. Hence my prayer for today is a speedy recovery for Anelka.

Wetin do una? Is he or is he not an expatriate? Abi una no sabi speak English? Our long-lost brother came to ask for advice and una just begin show am pepper.

@ OP, forget long story. There are ways of doing NYSC without doing it. Just get ya cash together.

BTW, why do you wanna do NYSC? I hope you are not thinking of going into politics o.

Regarding FGGC Abuloma which you said you wanted to donate money to - the principal is a relative of mine. Infact, she is from my compound in George-Ama. I hope its not chicken change wey you want donate na im make she snub you sha. Anyway, send the cash on to me. I will dispense it forthwith. Cheers!


BTW, who made MrCrackles education mod? Wetin him sabi?