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He was a grade one chump. Check his record. - No scratch that. I just checked his record. He only lost 8 fights - still, he was regarded at the time as a nobody and several well respected commentators have said that anyone who aspires to greatness should not be losing to Buster Douglas. Talkless of Danny Williams and that Irish guy who's name I forget.

All these people trying to sugarcoat their true feelings. Put bluntly, I wish he dies.

When the righteous rule, the people rejoice. When the wicked rulers die, the people rejoice. I will rejoice if he dies.

lol @ Nuzo. Face it though, Naija is a great place to spend a holiday - but not a great place to live unless you are rich.

4 Him:
mayweather aint no Ali.
Mayweather doesnt even come close to the likes of Mike Tyson

How can you say that? Mayweather is in probably the most competitive division in World boxing ever and he is still undefeated. Only Miguel Cotto stands in the way of absolute greatness. A great is measured by his performance against other greats. Infact, a great does not lose to chumps - something Mike Tyson has done too often - from Buster Douglas onwards.

As for Michael Spinks, how can you say that?

Fund managers. It all depends on how good they are sha.

I have a cousin from Denmark who went to Naija with my aunty and uncle. He was supposed to stay two weeks but ended up staying two months because he loved it so much. He could often be seen trekking in slippers and singlet around D-Line area in PH stopping to chat to everyone. Even when he went to the village, he loved it so much that he was very sad to return to Denmark.

Which one be their own?

dayokanu:
I used to know one Dudu is CSKA moscow who could play good too.

Dudu is moving to Everton this summer so you will get enough chance to enjoy him.

^^^Thats why it is called trivia, not quiz. They are not serious questions. . . . .

Chelsea trivia:

1. Which ex-Nigerian International and best friend of Avram Grant is Chelsea's director of football?

2. Which club did John Terry support as a boy?

3. Which club did we sign John Terry from as a 14 year old?

4. Which Chelsea player had a trial with Man Utd at 17 but was refused a contract because he stole stuff from the changing rooms?

5. Which Liverpool player supported Chelsea as a boy?

WinQSB is the best for Linear Programming. You don't have to write the code from scratch. It already provides you with everything including shadow prices etc. For the Simplex method, I strongly recommend WinQSB.

Otherwise, just do your regular VBA or C++ thing.

No - the white president will also chop money because Nigerian corruption is an institutional thing, not a personal thing.

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Odili or Ibori?

bawomolo:
Solve the following equations:

[img]http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d25/math/AssetReview/COLST/Image107.gif[/img]

(2x^1/3 - 3)(x^1/3+3) = 0

x^1/3 = 3/2

x = 27/8


Are you sure about that complex no question? I don't see a way to remove the i. Anyway, Ill get back to that later

bawomolo:
ln (x2 - 9) = 2

Applying exponentials to both sides

x² - 9 = e²

x² = 7.39 + 9

x = /16.39

x = 4.05

All I know is that Essien must stay in central midfield on Wednesday. We're gonna need that energy and tempo that he provides.

^^^ Sorry, lemme do that again. That was a minor oversight.

(b.) Let m be the no of men in the club. Therefore we have that n=3m or m=n/3

Taking probabilities without replacement, we have that m/n((m-1)/n-1) = 1/10

Hence 1/3((m-1)/(n-1)) = 1/10

(m-1)/(n-1) = 3/10

Hence m-1 = (3n-3)/10

Solving simultaneously:

m - 1 = (3n/10) - (3/10)
m = n/3


-1 = 3n/10 - n/3 - 3/10

-1 = (9n-10n -9)/30

-1 = (-n-9)/30

(n+9)/30 = 1

n/30 + 3/10 = 1

n/30 = 7/10

n = 210/10

n = 21

Hence, there are 21 people in the club.


Check:

7/21 x 6/20 = 1/10 QED

@ Huxley, Na Einstein puzzle wey you want use kill person?

@ gbeborun, your question (a.) is ill posed. Anyway, make I help you whichever way I fit. My probability is sketchy.

gbeborun:
1/3 of the people in a club are men. The number in the club is n.
a) write down and expression in terms of n for the number of people in the club.
b) two of the people in the club are chosen at random, the probability that both these people are men is 1/10. Calculate the number of people in the club.

(a. ) n

(b.) Let m be the no of men in the club. Therefore we have that n=3m or m=n/3

Taking probabilities without replacement, we have that m/n((m-1)/n) = 1/10

Hence 1/3((m-1)/n) = 1/10

(m-1)/n = 3/10

Hence m-1 = 3n/10

Solving simultaneously:

m - 1 = 3n/10
m      = n/3


-1 = 3n/10 - n/3

-1 = (9n-10n)/30

-1 = -n/30

n/30 = 1

n = 30

Hence, there are 30 people in the club.


Check:

10/30 x 9/30 = 90/900 = 1/10.   QED

nateevs:
1. The play maker role is far going extint? I really will not want to believe that. In the premiership, it is non-existent. in the spanish league however, it is the bomb. you have in barca alone 4 players that can play the role. Deco, Iniesta, Xavi and Dinho. Real have Sneijder. I don't think it is a wise idea in football to have a play maker be a winger. A play maker is meant to operate and make play function. The offensive link between the defence and the attack. The wing makes it too narrow to operate from as everything is predictible.

Nah dawg - Sneijder is playing left wing @ Real. As is Dinho @ Barca although the way he drifts inside you might think he is a playmaker. Iniesta is playing almost as a conventional midfielder, sometimes playing wing or even DM when Toure is injured. The only peeps I know playing playmaker in Spain are Pires@Villareal, David Silva@ Valencia (since Mata took the left wing), Ariel Ibagaza @ Mallorca, Esteban Granero@ Getafe and Pablo Aimar @ Zaragoza when he is fit.

Infact, in the whole of Europe, there cannot be more than 20 people playing as conventional playmakers. In Germany, you got Diego, Rakitic and Van Der Vaart. In Portugal, you got Rui Costa and Joao Moutinho. In France, you have Johan Micoud. In Turkey you have Alex. In Holland, maybe you can say Kenneth Perez is a playmaker. In Italy, Totti, Montolivo and maybe Cigarini@ Parma. That is about all I can think of. Not more than 20. 30 max. That position is extinct.

@ Nateevs:

Corluka was bought for £7m. How much do you think they will sell him now? I will guesstimate @ £14m. Chimbonda is going for £4m or £5m. As for Richards, we already know his story - £18m. I don't believe in spending more than £10m on a full back. Chimbonda was 28 at the start of the season. Maybe he is 29 now. He still has good 5 years in him. I thought you would mention Rafinha who would cost about £7m or £8m although I heard a rumuor that Liverpool have signed him for £6m but I doubt it.

Jozy Altidore is the guy I mentioned. Youtube him. A lot of interest is being shown in him from Madrid and Milan plus a few others. He is a Haitian American playing in American league for New York Red Bulls.

As for freekicks and corners, have you seen De Guzman cross ball? Farfan takes a superb free-kick. Quaresma can also take. All these players are highly technical.

They better take Petr Cech off and bring Cudicini on if we get to penalties.

nateevs:
1. Playmakers never came to the premiership, hence why you think it's never worked.

2. These players are not wingers. They are rather players that can adapt to the wings because they are good. These players can adpat on the flanks of a 4-3-3 system and that does not make them wingers. Messi was play maker for the You-21 team and there's no 4-3-3 play in Argentina so no wing play for Messi as u suggest.

3. Chimbonda. My goodness we made a signing this summer in Ivanovic this season and do not think we should look away from that policy.

4. Kalou. he will gorw. I believe that.

5. There are some other issues you have not solved. Anelka can't head. So what's the use of good wingers when or strikers can't jump? Who takes free kicks? Corner kicks? That's why the team you've chosen is good but defective of two world class personalities. For me, Klass Huntelaar and Diego.

You make some good points - lemme just comment on some of these.

(1.) Some would call Rosicky and Hleb playmakers. Benayoun is a classic playmaker as is Malbranque. Joe Cole is supposed to be a playmaker. Pires is playmaker now for Villareal but almighty Wenger never saw fit to use him as playmaker. Why? I believe the EPL does not allow you to "carry" a player through games. Every player must fulfill a tactical function. I was against Mourinho signing Deco when he first came and I am against signing Diego now. Even Mourinho admitted that he was happy he didn't make the mistake of signing Deco cos Deco wouldn't have coped with the physicality. Diego will only survive if he can adapt.

In the EPL, playmakers take three forms - coming off the wing eg Pires, playing deep in midfield eg Scholes or playing as a second striker eg Bergkamp. I cannot recall a team that has specifically given someone a playmaker role except Boro with Juninho. Even the mighty Milan had to convert Pirlo to a "deep lying playmaker". To be honest, the playmaker role is extinct. Diego, Van Der Vaart, Zidane and Riquelme are the last of a dying breed, although Van Der Vaart is adaptable. Zidane even had to play left midfield for Real. Anyway, I just don't think it would work but I hope I am proved wrong if we do sign him.

(2.) Sorry, I should use the word "forward" instead of "winger". I expect wingers in a 4-3-3 to be able to cut inside. Somze mentioned Joaquin. Joaquin is a winger, not a forward. I think he finds it hard to come inside and recieve the ball centrally. David Silva can do it, and do it very well. You just have to question if he has the afterburner pace and physical strength to make the difference. His physique and speed is not too dissimilar to Joe Cole.


(3.) If you can find a younger rightback of his quality and price, feel free to recommend.

(4.) Kalou will never be able to cross or pass straight. His kay-leg is genetic. He can't change that.

(5.) Anelka can't head, hence I want an Alex Song type player to put balls into the channels the way Anelka likes. I am not looking at playing long balls all the time, but I want the option if need be. Anelka will be paired with guys like Alex Song, De Guzman etc. As for the other strikers, they are too expensive. Huntelaar may not be quick enough to play 4-3-3, especially on the counterattack. They are all overpriced except Benzema who wants to go to Spain anyway. If all else fails, I will pay £20m for Mario Gomez. Or I will buy Jozy Altidore for £7m and wait till the next transfer window to see if I can get anythin cheaper.

nateevs:
@Ibime.

(1.) I definitely know the effects of a mss clear-out. Somze never supports me on that. If you look at it critically though, you have just mentioned 14 players to be sold if we sell Cudi, Lamps and Essien. That's a lot and perhaps worse than I was suggesting.

(2.)  Secondly we have to bring in a play maker this time around, hence the choice of Diego. I think a proven midfielder, especially when he is the main dictator of play is better than an unproven one.

(3.) With a winger you can always get unproven ones and have back ups shuld he fail. Diego should and must come. Infact if he is quoted £40m I support hands and legs to beat the club transfer record. Anelka, Drog, even Di Santo will be on fire. You will even be surprised to see Sheva score.

(4.) Chimbonda and Miguel? Thanks but no thanks.


(5.) Inter will not sell Super Mario, no mata what. Even if we give them Drog and Cash. JM is their Manager next month and he relishes the opp to have a very decent back-up Drogba.

(6.) Kalou out? no! Somze will rip me off when he reads this. I still believe he' got abilities. He needs confidence.

(7.) Alex song, yes decent player. I like him as well. I haven't heard you talk about a striker. Huntelaar, Berbatov, Aguero, Benzema.

(1.) No - I want to keep the spine of Cech, Carvalho, Terry, Maka, Essien and Lamps. These are the people who bring the winning spirit to the team. Only sell Lamps if he asks for too much and essien if we recieve upwards of £25m. If you notice, all the players I mentioned as additions already speak English with the exception of Quaresma, Miguel and Augusto. They also play in leagues similar to ours and share similar cultures.

(2.) Playmaker has never worked in Premiership and never will. Fabregas, Scholes and Anderson should be playmakers but look at the positions they are playing - as conventiional midfielders. I don't think Diego is that adaptable. Name one successful playmaker in Premiership history? The closest was Juninho. Veron couldn't adapt and fell flat on his face.

(3.) Winger is the singular most important position in World Football right now. Read: Ronaldinho, Messi, Ronaldo. You can't afford to take risks except the kid is highly talented.

(4.) Fashi dat thing. Even Mourinho wanted Chimbonad and was willing to pay £10m. I heard that Ramos and Chimbonda fell out because he refused to play centre-back and that is why he has all this wahala at Spurs. IMO, Chimbonda is still more than competent. Just  season before last he made Premiership best 11. I also cannot judge Miguel on his recent performances for Valencia. You know all the wahala that is going on there and their players are de-motivated. Even my boy David Silva isn't playing well at the moment.

(5.) But Super Mario is making noise about his contract so you never know. It was also rumoured that they may do a swap deal with Drogba.

(6.) Kalou can dribble very well - but he is not careful with the ball. He loses it in dangerous positions. I would keep him as 4th choice but Sinclair needs to be given his chance. He also cannot cross or pick out a pass. He has kay-leg. Infact, we call players like that baby giraffe. His legs need to be straightened out cos he does not hit the ball straight. I prefer players with bow-leg. He also lacks mental toughness sometimes.

(7.) No need for another striker if you have Super Mario with Anelka competing with each other. All those clubs are asking for ridiculous money for all those players you mentioned.

If you notice, I like the 4-3-3 system we play now. I also like having a big striker and a goalscoring midfielder such as Lampard. I just wish we could smoothen the edges. The striker needs to be able to play well on the deck. The wingers should be able to dribble, shoot and make the right decisions. I would also like a midfielder behind lamps with the passing ability of Mikel, but also more mobility - and also the ability to dribble and swivel. Hence I mentioned Alex Song and De Guzman. I think that is all we need. If we are level on points with Man Utd now, imagine if we were more accurate with our passing and delivery.

@ Bluehorizo:

Firstly Ballack is getting old and his legs are failing him. It was very obvious against Liverpool. Secondly, if you want Lampard to burst into the box more often, you need someone stronger than Ballack behind him. I would personally drop him for Essien on Wednesday. Still love him though, but gotta be realistic.

Who wouldn't sell Essien for £28m? No central midfielder is worth more that £18m. Even SAF commented that he cannot believe that Lyon president got £25m a-piece for 2 central midfielders (Diarra and Essien). Secondly, as we have seen with Gattuso's poor performcances this season, Essiens game is based on his physical fitness which could start declining any moment now. His friend Diarra at Real Madrid has already lost his legs and Real Madrid fans and directors are starting to complain about him. Infact, they are ready to sell him which is why they want Essien. Trust me, Essien will start to decline within the next 2-3 seasons if it hasn't started already. After all, we all know that Ghana players also put VAT on their age just like we do in Naija. So £28m is more than a fair price. Infact, the £24m that we paid for him is enough.

somze:
Who's this Diego guy? How much does he cost?

Don't tell me you don't know Diego. He and Robinho came up together as the next big things at Santos, even reaching the Copa Libertadores final and winning the Brazilian Championship. From there, he moved to Porto where he flopped subsequently moving to Werder Bremen where he has been a huge hit. I am a bit wary of Diego coming to Chelsea. To be honest, I don't think he can hack it in the Prem. Great skillful player but lacking in the physical department. If you dig deep into his goalscoring record, you will also find that a significant number of them are from penalties.

@ Nateevs, we really have to be careful how we perform our transition. It could turn into a car crash. There are not many players on the market available at the right price this summer. I think Diego would be taking it too far the other way. IMO opinion, we should swap Drogba for Balotelli plus cash. I really believe in this kid Balotelli. He has most of the physical attributes of Drogba plus he is skillful on the deck. Sell Malouda, Kalou and Wright-Phillips for approx £25m and bring in Quaresma and Farfan for £20m. (Farfan is free). Promote Scott Sinclair to 4th choice winger and Di Santo to third choice striker. Keep Lampard if he will accept £120,000. If he doesn't, sell him for £12m and bring in Renato Augusto from Flamengo for £12m - £15m. Sell Ballack for £5m. Bring in De Guzman for £12m. Sell Ferreira and Belleti for approx £5m and bring in Chimbonda or Miguel for about the same to compete with Ivanovic. Sell all of the fringe players such as Ben Haim, Sheva, Sidwelll, Pizarro. Sell injury-prone Cudicini and bring in a no 2 who doesn't get injured when we need him. It is cost effective and we still get to keep most of our competitive spirit.

Oh yeah - if Real Madrid are serious with that £28m bid for Essien, it makes financial sense to sell him as well. Replace with Alex Song even for £8m. He has the passing ability and is also very solid defensively. I love this boy. Wenger need to stop playing him at centre-back and play him in his real position. I very much believe that he will be a star if given a chance. His passing is amazing.

somze:
Grant has his full squad to select from, something that JM scarcely had (or even never had) through out his career with Chelsea.

Hold on - of the team that played yesterday, only 3 have played more than 20 games this season.

This season, we have also had major injuries to Terry and Cech - just like last season. During December, Pizarro was our main striker, thats how bad it was. Carvalho, Lampard, Drogba have all been injured or on international duty for long periods. Ditto Mikel, Kalou and Essien. Malouda has also been injured. I do not support the notion that Mourinho had injuries like the ones we have had this season. Infact, Mourinho never experienced such an injury crisis.

Not to talk of player dissent, infighting, players wanting to leave, media pressure etc. Not to talk of changing managers only a few games into the season. Not to talk of the fact that the players felt like Grant had backstabbed Mourinho and never gave him their respect because of it. I believe we have had way more problems this season than last. I wonder what the rest of you guys think.

Please produce a list of free-kick takers if you have one. We know there is a list of penalty takers because at one stage last season, there was a big debate about it in the press and Mourinho promoted Ballack to no 1. A situation which has since been reversed. Also, we know that we have a designated corner taker, which is Lampard. As of right now, we cannot say that we have designated free-kick takers because they all alternate between themselves.

OK - let us draw a line under this Drogba argument and agree to disagree. Let us argue something else.

Something occured to me today which I want to throw out to Chelsea fans to guage their reaction. As you all know, I am no fan of Mr Grant. Still, I raised a point some months ago that Mourinho lost us the title last season due to his hotheadness and his mismanagement of certain situations. I remember that a lot of heads were not too pleased by my suggestion. Still, I want to ask you guys a simple question:

Who had more problems, injuries and more issues to deal with:

(a.) Jose Mourinho last season

(b.) Avram Grant this season

And why?

@ Somze, your stupidness amazes me. I have no time to go over the same thing over and over again.

As I said, it is up to the players discretion which free-kick is best suited to whom. There is no list of free-kick priorities at Chelsea.

I never mentioned corners. Everybody knows that we have designated corner takers at Chelsea which is Lampard.

As a Chelsea fan, you disgust me. Only a fake fan judges players based on a handful of performances. It shows that you are concerned with protecting your favourite player Drogba and to do so, you are prepared to crucify Anelka. Even I, as an Anelka fan conceded that I prefer Drogba in the team at the moment. Why? Because I am a fan of the team. I like what is best for the team and at the moment the team is more set-up to play to Drogba's strengths. You are just an idol worshipper.

I can name many great players who struggled in their first season. We just mentioned Aguero. He was a big flop in his first season. Henry struglled in the first-half of his first season. Ditto Adebayor and countless others. Even Drogba. So please, if you want to idol-worship, go and support another team.

You keep persisting with this argument about Drogba's 'great' performance yesterday, despite the evidence of all the websites and newspapers that is was an OK performance. Please quit it. You are getting boring. You are not the only person who watched the game yesterday. My opinion of his performance is EXACTLY in line with the general opinion. If that does not prove that your views are biased, I don't know what does. Stop going on about his cross. It was a routine cross, the type of cross that I expect from a Chelsea player, not something magical. He did well OK? Now, quit it.

@ Nateevs. No actually, I love Aguero. I just don't see how we can fit him in to our current set of players and our current style of play.

somze:
1. Designated Freekick takers - Link
Another link on who should take kicks in Chelsea
Do a google too and see you gross error

2. You never said Drogba was anything except okay yesterday. I said he was super and I stand by that. The first goal speaks for itself.

3. (a.) Drogba is more accurate on the ground than wasteful Anelka.

(b.) Better in the air and can play alone. Drogba was good in his first season until the injury. Drogba came in from the French League, Anelka has played in 3 English Clubs . . . you do the maths.

(c.) How many goals did Drogba score in his first season? Drogba had the most assists in his first season. So even without scoring he created opportunities for Lampard and other team players to score.

(d) You clearly know nothing about Drogba or Chelsea. All you do is give excuses for Anelka. So we should buy 4 new players to make up for Anelka's inabilities? What makes you think that those same players wont give Drogba the ability to net in more balls?

(1.) The links you provided just prove that there is NO designated free-kick taker at Chelsea:

First, let us look at your Wikipedia link:

"Most teams have one or two designated free kick takers, depending on the distance from goal and the side of the field the free kick is to be taken from. "

Is that not what I said? The free-kick depends on the distance from goal and the side of the field. I even gave you an example using Hargreaves and Ronaldo. There is no ONE designated free-kick taker and no-one at Chelsea is aware that we have a list of designated free kick takers. Sometimes Lampard takes, sometimes Drogba, sometimes Alex and sometimes Ballack. Like I said, Drogba had just wasted a free-kick and it was the general opinion that it was Ballacks turn to take.

Looking at your second link proves your ignorance. It PROVES categorically that we have no designated free kick taker. I quote:

"We all know how important freekicks are, for us not even in good positions as we have Alex with the horsekick, Ballack with both force and skilled feet, Lampard that can thread the ball and get those ever so important deflections, Drogba that screws the ball into the net from the angles of the box."

What does that tell you? Jesus, your stubbornness amazes me. Even your own link is disproving your theory.

2. Let us look at the BBC rating system to see his level of performance. I personally gave him a 6.5. Most websites and Newspapers gave him a rating anywhere between 6 and 7. The BBC website gave him 6.71. So let us look at what these numbers mean:

1 - Give up the game
2 - Embarrasingly bad
3 - Woeful
4 - Poor
5 - Off Colour
6 - Average
7 - Good
8- Very Good
9 - Outstanding
10 - Pure perfection

So what lies between average and good? Is it not OK? QED.

This is how you use references son. Watch and learn.

3.

(a.) Drogba is more accurate on the ground than Anelka? Really?

(b.) You are correct.

(c.) 10 league goals. 15 overall. As for assists, I don't know.

(d.) I can see that you are anti-Anelka. Maybe you like Drogba's hairstyle. I don't know. Anyway, I would love to see Drogba at a passing team like Barca. I wonder what the fans will make of his horrendous first touch. They will be mortified. Anyway, I can't defend Anelka based on what he has done for Chelsea so far. I can only defend him based on his previous record. After all, nobody can say that Henry is a poor player just because his move to Barca hasn't worked out. I will only judge Anelka when he starts getting full matches under his belt and when Chelsea start playing to his strengths. All I know is that based on their overall records, no-one can EVER tell me that Drogba is better than Anelka. I am sure that Drogba would have loved to play for France but he never got the opportunity because he wasn't good enough.