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nateevs:
@Ibime.

Please correct me if I am wrong. I think there is some politics going on at the bridge. I am thinking Hiddink has advised RA on who should go and stay. For that reason, I think the plan is to play Drogba, Ballack, Malouda and Belletti as many times as possible to increase their resale value. . and maintain good performances at the same time.

On the other hand. . . I think we are trying to make Quaresma as rubbish as possible  so that we can convince Inter to buy him on the cheap. . .



That's the only reason I see Malouda playing above Quaresma.

Im not sure about this theory. . . . .sounds like conspiracies to me. . . .

Kalou is on the bench cos of that nonsense he was talking about joining Arsenal, just 1 match after Hiddink took over. They are trying to teach him discipline.

Malouda comes on because he is VERY disciplined tactically. When you are holding on to a lead, Malouda is someone you know will come on and mark his opposing full-back, and he covers Ashley Cole whenever Ashley is out of position. This is the only advantage he has over our other wingers. Malouda is a left-back, not a winger! Even Ashley can play wing better than him.

Ballack is out of contract in the summer, so no reason to play him cos he has no resale value.

Routine win.

Not the best performance from Chelsea but Man City have nothing to offer in riposte.

With the power and velocity with which Essien bursts forward (as he just showed), I don't know why idiots like Dayokanu   would consider restraining him at DM.

Mumuda

dayokanu:
Where are all the Mikel advocates? Including Ibime

I told you e would go to his rightful position on the bench once Essien comes back

Mikel is an overrated piece of shit

Mumu , we are not playing with any DM in this match. Does Essien look like he's playing DM to you? Everybody's sharing the responsibility. If we were playing 4-3-3, Mikel must play.

Malouda?

We need to apply some width. Ballack off, Q or Kalou on. This game is too mechanical for my liking.

Nateevs, I got my sopcast running. Shit is crystal clear. Thanks FBS!

nateevs:
OK. . . Time to get sopcast. . .

You damn right. . . . .I don tire for TVU.

FBS, cheers. Im gonna have to download Sopcast later on, not now.

Nateevs, is your TVU working and if so, which channel?

Essssssssssiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenn!

Im not feeling the tactics, the formation or the personnel.

I dont know why GH keeps victimising Kalou.



OMO IBO, this is the best link I can find:

http://www.iraqgoals.com/en/ch4.html

Guys, can I have a decent link please?

ow11:
Nope, I didn't attend any of them Borokiri Schools. . .

Fuludu was one of those notorious Harold Wilson boys.

No vex. . . . I didn't mean to demean you  . . . I had a run-in with one Enitonia boy who would be about your age mate, thats why I asked.

I never heard of Fuludu, but if I had to name some of the knuckleheads bred in Borokiri, they would have to pull me up before Truth and Reconciliation Commission  . . . .trouble was around every corner, expecially when the Ogoni vs Okrika shit flared up. . . .  Borokiri breeds the roughest nikkas on the face of the earth. . . . and also the smartest nikkas. . . . I remember one stoupe on Harold Wilson Road where boys used to play chess until their fingers were permanently deformed. 

tkb417:
Ibime
u were saving money to buy CF?
how much was it na? 150 at the max.

My friend I was buying CF since 1992, when I was like 10 years old. Price was N100 den sef, not N150. Back then, we used to get N15 - N20 lunch money per day. Abeg help me calculate am. My stomach was growling! The only time I could spend freely like you rich boys was when I started hitting momsie in JSS 3. 

Doyin!!!  

Nateevs, please forgive my indiscretion. I will never kow tow to the scumtwats again!!! 

I thought someone said OT was Fort Knox? 

Cristalz:
@Ibime
''Disgrace'' is pushing it, wouldn't you say? He is a great defender, but who's perfect?

Of course my comment was meant in jest. Its a running battle Im having with Doyin13, na im cause am.

Lawd have mercy!!! 4-1!

I hope you guys will be alright tonite.

Doyin,

[size=20pt]VIDIC IS A DISGRACE!!![/size]

doyin13:
It is comments like this that show the paucity of football knowledge on this forum. . . .

Same way Vidic is seriously lacking in the speed stakes. . . .Ferdinand is often rattled by big burly strikers
and I don't mean Drogba.

Ferdinand often gets the fits when he faces the Yak believe it or not. Viduka also.  . . .

Complete defender my arse. . .

The way Torres bullied Vidic off the ball had nothing to do with speed. He bullied him then outpaced him. Torres can never bully Ferdie, and even if he does, Ferdie will catch him. Vidic is a GREAT player, don't get me wrong, but Ferdie is no 1. What do you call an International defender with only 1 yellow card in the last 6 years? Magnificent!

Man Utd will be back in the second half. This game calls for Berbatov. Anderson is running around like a headless chicken. SAF should take him off and bring on Scholesy. It is never a good idea to play Liverpool on their terms (gra-gra football). Scholesy would pass around these lot. As much as I want Liverpool to win, I can NEVER bring myself to support them cos I HATE them. Besides, I think Chelsea should be more concerned with winning 2nd place, not trying to chase Man Utd. Go Man Utd!

BTW, can Torres do what he did to Vidic to Ferdinand? Never! Ferdie is the complete defender!

ow11:
Sharks have moved between both stadiums but I think they now at Elekahia (NPL rules). I no try go again because of violence. I remember when we try to sneak into civic centre without paying. My cousin used play for NPA then and could get us in. I kept my footie career to fire service monkey post as I was never going to be selected for the big games in Enitonna field.

Tammy Solo was probably murdered (gun or machete), I never got the full gist as I was away from Town then. Did you know Fuludu on Harold Wilson?

I never went to Enitonia to play. I heard it was hot there! I mostly stuck to Comprehensive. After every match, we would go swimming at Ipukulu. Those were the days! 

BTW, did you school at Enitonia?

My pops always warned me to steer clear of Tammy Solo cos he used to send us on errands back then and we worshipped him as our local hero. Its a shame to hear this. I heard he got involved in the Asari-Dokubo and Tom Ateke dispute, next thing I hear, he is dead. What a shame. If that guy had nurtured his talent instead of looking for the fast buck, he would have had a decent career.

Who the hell is Fuludu? Bear in mind that I was only 14 when I moved away from Borokiri, this one wey you dey call names for me. 

ow11:
Nope, it was people like Maleke (Borokiri Utd) and all those sharks players (Ebiede and Charlie Parker) they used to gather at Hilsom Hotel on Harold Wilson. Who was Ibiso Briggs? Do you remember the Tali brothers for Eagle Cement FC. Tammy Solo did die as I heard, You know Igenewari them used to live in Rumukalagbor near waterlines that time and it was because of his Eagle cement friends from Elekahia he used to come to town.

Yea those nonsense channels on cable didn't show English league because it was rubbish then. Not when Dejan Savicevic, Baggio and Vialli were doing it in Serie A( I think the channel was RAI). Strangely Nigerian league was interesting then but when I began to hate it was when Sharks won in 96 and Udoji Utd bought the league with those walkover games. I remember Champion sports, Souvenir and the other blue newspaper published three league winners (Jasper, Udoji and Sharks)

Ibiso Briggs is my compadre from Harold Wilson road. Since you live in the same area and share the same surname, I thought you might be related.

Yeah I remember that Igenewari used to live near Ogunagbali area. My friend lived opposite his house and we went there one day to look at Kanu and Finidi when they came back for summer holidays.

I remember Ebiede well. We used to train at Elekahia stadium when it first got built and Sharks players used to come there to train sometimes. That was where I first saw Ebiede. They used to train by running up the steps of the stadium, back and forth, back and forth. Whatever happened to him?

There was this light-skinned boy called West and his dark-skinned brother Mike that used to play for the Waterfront just opposite Navy base (is it Bundu waterside? I don forget). Mehn those boys were very good. West used to boast that he was better than Oliseh. One day, we all went to Churchill, just after Igenewari got back from Ecuador 95. Mehn see the way those boys were using Igenewari. They set out to prove a point that they were better than him. Aside from Churchill, they used to play tournaments in Comprehensive every Sunday. I used to play for Okarki Street. We junior boys would play on Saturday, then the adults would play on Sunday. Tammy Solo also played for the mens team on my street. Tammy Solo was a genius with the ball at his feet. One day when we were playing against Comprehensive, the guy dribbled 4 men whilst walking (he was getting old), then chipped the keeper from the halfway line. Everybody went crazeeeeeeeee! BTW, how did Tammy Solo die? I hope it wasnt gunshots. That guy was always involved in local politics. I remember he stole some money from one of my relatives over some local political dispute.

I only went to one Sharks game when they were still playing at Civic Centre. (Are they still there or have they relocated to Elekahia stadium? Its been a long time!). My pops was friends with Adokiye so we managed to sit in VIP. Other than that, he would never allow me to go and watch Sharks because of fear of violence.

dayokanu:
Ibime Rothmans of Pall Mall soccer was it in those days. Also Footbal made in gemany was popular i Lagos those days i think the same guy that does Telematch runs it. With his funny voice. that was where the Bayern love came from.

Even while in Ife-University, watching Euro soccer is not for every one. Some of us would go and watch far at the Staff club and others would wait for scores.

Yeah, I remember Rothmans. We used to tap satellite from our neighbour, then later we bought cable so I used to catch everything on Eurosport or Canal+ and some other channels like that. I'm talking back from 1990 to 1995 when my pops cut the cable cos we refused to read our books.  I remember I almost learnt French cos all the commentary on Canal+ was in French. We also had one Italian channel like that, I don forget the name, but that was where I used to watch Serie A. Back then, we never used to watch Spanish or English football, mostly German, French, Dutch or Italian. Eurosport were really big on German football back then.

ow11:
I think It was African Soccer mag by Emmanuel Maradas. Then every Saturday morning, straight to Lagos Bus stop to buy Sports Sounevir and later that evening watch European football on NTA sponsored by rothmans of pall mall.

Whenever you can you visit a rich person's house to catch a game or even highlights on supersport ( it was the only sports channel on Ultima).

Yeah - African Soccer! I used to buy all my stuff in Park as well, cos I always try and get the bus that goes straight to Borokiri, not the one where you have to change over at Lagos Bus Stop.

BTW, you grew up in Town as well? Do you know Ibiso Briggs?

dayokanu:
I was wondering where all the Ajax fans of the mid 90's went to

You know Dutch league went down so we had to concentrate on other things. I remember boarding house in 1996, when we had to jump fence to go and watch the Ajax-Juve game. Incidentally, that was the first game when I saw a player do the pirhouette, as Edgar Davids did it in that final. That was my team - Davids, Kluivert, De Boers, Nordin Wouter, Seedorf, Finidi, Kanu, Litmanen etc. Since that day, I have always hated Juventus. Up till that stage, Ajax had been playing wonderful football. Even Bayern came out to play in the semi-final and it was an entertaining spectacle, but Juve just spoilt that final with their Catennachio.

I'm still an Ajax fan to this day and I used to watch them weekly until Ibrahimovic and Mido left. Now I just catch their highlights.

Back in the days, it was a pleasure to watch European games. At that time, it wasn't saturated as now, and only real fanatics or those with access to cable could watch the games. Back then, it was all about saving your money to buy Complete Football or African football sef. Those were the days! Every Sunday, we used to go and watch Adokiye Amaesimaka, Tammy Solo and them play for PH all stars, or we go to Churchill, where all the real ballers in Town used to convene, including Igenewari them. Tammy Solo was the best player I ever saw live. He was a local champion in PH. The guy used to dribble while walking. He later got involved in militancy, and I think he is dead now. I know OW11 must know about him.

My other team back in the day was Inter. I picked them up from 96/97 when Djorkaeff was the king of football, then Ronaldo and Taribo joined the next season, and they have remained my team ever since.

doyin13:
see oo. . . .Okrika feeling funky.

Na which time academic start to dey wear FUBU

Sharrap dia! I could sum up your best novel in a 16 bar flow.

dyabman:
I'm allergic to wacker rappers, and automatically sneeze

Im allergic to wack rappers and automatically sneeze/
I could backflip a span of degrees/. . . . and land on my knees/
A Roman Catholic priest/ smoking botanical trees/
Never engineered a track, but I master the streets/
My voice is trapped in the beat/ that you tap with ya feet/
But my face is unseen like a phantom in sheets/
This manacled beast/. . . . do damage to a victim/
Your lection is nothing but axiomatic wisdom/
I'm laughing at ya diction/ a rapping contradiction/
I throw acid on a pacifist . . . and laugh at his affliction/
You just a miniature midget/ I make the minister fidget/
I f&ck Jane and Jill. . . . then administer Bridget!/

@ Dayo, what it do mayne!

How Chicago life?

These DSTV boys still giving you trouble?

Don't worry, I remember the Bayern of the early and mid-90's, the Bayern that only true football fans like you & I knew about, even when adeballz was still playing 'spoke and wheel'. 

I hope you remember the 5-2 trashing we (Ajax) gave you in Champions League in 94/95. 

Don't mind adeballz, Arsenal would crumble before Bayern.

I hope you remember the last time you met Chelsea sha.   

Doyin, Doyin. No need to get in a huff. I have the MEND application form in my house. I hope those 'kpomo' muscles of yours are truly up to the task, not some superficial toning for the ladies.

It is well known that a lot of today's MEND members came out from the Bush boys of Okrika, a vigilante organisation which I was very fastidious in setting up.

1st criteria: Can you swim?

2nd criteria: Choose your nom ge guerre. The only three we have left are 'Ironmonger', 'See no Evil' and 'Double Tragedy'. Pick one!


Get in touch with me! I will put you in touch with the right people.