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What can Naija Government do about the rising cost of rice? It is not like we have any reserves to call on. It is not the government fixing the price but increase in demand, shortall in supply and speculators speculating on the price. Is it not since last summer that we have been hearing that the price of soft goods is going up? Everybody went and bought shares in companies that produce soft goods and now the price is increasing, they are chopping their money.

I saw the fight. I placed a £20 bet with my friend that Calzaghe would win and he won. However though, I personally felt as if Hopkins won the fight hands down. He made Calzaghe fight him on the inside where he is strongest and he controlled the fight from start to finish. Basically Hopkins style was too awkward for Calzaghe. Also Calzaghe was not able to fight on the back foot. I really don't understand why the judges scored the fight the way they did. I had Hopkins ahead by at least two points. I thought Hopkins won 6 rounds and Calzaghe won 5 as well as 1 draw. Factor in the knock-down in the first round and Hopkins wins the fight by 2 points easily. Anyway, I won my £20 so no wahala.

Wetin dey worry Grant? I wonder how Lampard is feeling about the recent utterances he made about Gerrard. Gerrard is crap anyway, we don't want him at Chelsea. My guy, you wont be here next season, so please stop talking about the players you want. Hiddink is on his way.

All this talk about Ribery. Why didn't we buy him last season when he was available @ £17m. We went and bought Malouda instead. Anyway, there is no way Bayern will sell him for £20m just a season after buying him for £17m - a season in which he has been the best player in Germany by a country mile.

Why do you think Mugabe refused to go to Zambia for the recent summit? If he steps foot out of Zimba, he will be killed. The rules have changed. Unfortunately, no country can enter Zimba without the support of South Africa and Mbeki is the one keeping Mugabe going. I think Mbeki should focus on battling Zuma who will be ten times worse than Mugabe and leave Mugabe to fall on his sword.

This referee is a punk. Kuczcak and Rooney should have been sent off in the first half plus Blackburn should have had a penalty. I think it is the same referee that sent off Mikel at Old Trafford. Anyway, we lost the league now. I don't see Man Utd losing to Wigan or whichever other team they are playing. I forget. We should have won the Wigan game.

^^^So there is nonallergic Rhinitis? That must be the piece of information I have been missing. Thank you. After the prick-test, the doctor said I was allergic to cats but I told him I have no contact with cats. He prescribed Nasofan Aqeous anyway and it has not worked. Anyway, I will approach him with this new information. Thanks a lot.

@ Nateevs, if Roman wants to spend his money that is his problem, not ours. Chelsea is not a PLC. Anyway, I believe we will sign youngsters this summer. As for Lulinha, he is not ready yet. BTW, Berbatov has come out to say he wants to leave again. He is the perfect player we are looking for in terms of creativity. Tottenham Chairman Joe Louis just lost £500m in the Bear Stearns crash so I think they will be ready to sell this summer.

Actually, I believe the press conference he gave was as a protest against the FA and Sky Sports for moving the game to a thursday. He has to fulfill his press conference duties, but at the same time he wants them to know that he is angry.

Wetin be DSTV? As in the Satellite provider?

I think Riquelme beats everyone hands down right now.

Whats up guys. I have had Rhinitis for many years since I was about 12 years old. A lot of times, it gets so bad that both nostrils are blocked and I have to breathe through my mouth. It also affects my sleep as I now have Sleep Apnea as a result of it. I have tried all the treatments from anti-histamines to saline irrigation. I was just wondering if I should go for corrective surgery and what is the process. What do you guys think?

Inky, my brother. Dont mind all these people. I can see that you are sincere. I wish you the best of luck. I am also half-cast of Dutch, Naija and English mix. Good luck and God Bless.

nateevs:
Meanwhile Franco Di Santo scored a hat-trick in a reserves game against Spurs two days ago. I am closely following this guy and it brings his tally to 6 goals in 7 reserve games. In a game that included Paulo Ferreira, Steve Sidwell, Ivanovic and Ben Haim. . he is fast becoming very comfortable in a Chelsea shirt. I am really hoping he does well.

Thanks for the update. Please keep updating us on the reserve and youth teams.

Where do you watch all these reserve and youth games anyway? Chelsea TV? Anyway, we appoint you chief correspondent of Chelsea reserve team.

Kobojunkie:
If you really look at the definition, Communism already came to Nigeria and is still in the fabric. From when we had dictators who ran an almost communistic nation back in the days to a country with majority of infrastrutural development and economy still controlled by government. We are still far from capitalism or socialism regardless of what individual Nigerians believe.

We are far from capitalism, socialism AND communism. Your point is true that government does control our parastatals - but the people see no benefit - so we cannot really class it as communism. We cannot be communist because we privatise our industries - the only difference is that OBJ and his cohorts buy up all our industries at knockdown prices. What we practice is a mixture of tribalism, nepotism, big manism and thuggism.

Communism will NEVER come to Nigeria. We are made differently and we all believe that a man should be rewarded according to his hardwork - so don't even dream about it.

First, Modric said he would rather go to Liverpool, now David Villa says he would rather go to Arsenal. Chelsea's reputation is being damaged because of mismanagement of the board and manager and players do not want to come because they can see the bad management. Are we the new Real Madrid of the galactico's era? Even Anelka says being at Chelsea is like being at Real Madrid. I am reallly sad at these developments in CFC.

Wow . . . . the good old days. Wetin concern me?

OK - lets have some perspective here - 109/7 = approx $15 million a year. Before how much do you expect a former US president to earn? I don't think the figures are excessive at all. After all, Tony Blair is getting £5m from JP Morgan alone.

Of course we should keep Capital punishment. We dont have money to endlessly feed and house criminals. The only problem is that you can never trust Naija Police, neither can you trust the judges to make the right judgement. Anyway, we already have summary capital punishment by the people and for the people. If they catch thief, they just throw tire round his neck and set him on fire.

Kerry Dixon is Chelsea's greatest striker? Are you seriously suggesting that?

No beef . . . . . just one last statement: Just because CAF ratified French football award does not mean that FIFA ratified World Soccer award.

Anyway, Ako . . . . . . I have no beef. You started the mudslinging by saying I was a fake Chelsea fan and I know nothing about Chelsea yet I claim to be living in Stamford Bridge. So I had to respond because you made your assumption based on ill-posed questions.

nateevs:
@Somze,

Personally I do not see any reason to blame Grant. . . how many of us really believed that Grant will really win the league? We say he is not good and at the same time we are quietly hoping we win the league!! Before beating Arsenal we had no hope, ManU drew and suddenly it seemed like we could do it. . now we can't and we blame Grant again when in the first place we said he could not do it. . I am tired of blaming him . . I just don't want him there next season. . .

My concern now is our players. . We do have players that are resourceful anymore. . you can say the Grant- appoinment killed their spirit but in attack and defence, it's all gone dead. . We need to know that our players are over-rated!!! very very over rated. . . even if they can't score for Grant they should score for themselves. . we find it hard to create chances . . and when we do we score one of 20 . . 19 fly pass the post or hit the post and we say it was not our day . . . aw many 1-0 wins have we had this season? It's just like we can't score. .

I did see the match without Lamp and Drog but there's nothing to show in recent times that if they played we would have won. . nothing at all. .

We must be careful about how we judge these guys with past achievements. . . there needs to be a time when we move on. . Lamp and Drog scored goals in the JM era . . . but that was almost 2 seasons ago. . . We need to move on . . they will both be 31 next season. . if they our 90-min players next season we will have a problem for the next 3 years. . We need to know that wqe have to start rebuilding at some point. . i don't want the rebuilding to start after everything break down. .


I support a massive clear-out of all the over-paid and over-rated fotballers we have. . and start afresh. . even if it means we won't win anything!!!

^^^ I totally agree. I don't know why all you guys keep going on about Grant. I think we all agree that Grant is not up to the job. What we are looking at is to see if we have players who are up to the job. The fact is that Chelsea have rgressed severely since Mourinho's first season. In his first season, we had Robben and Duff who were arguably two of the best wingers in the world. The next season Joe Cole stepped up to the plate to take Duff's place who was losing form. But people forget that in JM's second season we had a lot of 1-0 wins. We had already started losing creativity. By the third season, we shunned the wingers and had this stiff diamond system in midfield who weren't creating chances. Meanwhile Man Utd were growing, adding top players. Now there is no doubt they are miles ahead of us in terms of playing staff. You cannot even compare the two sets of players. I don't think Mourinho would have won the league this season. Infact, we would be in the same position with probably the same number of points. He would have won the League and FA cup. Anyway, what I am saying is that we need to change all our wingers except Joey - we also need to lose Drogba for another striker. That is all.

Mc Omo:
Akolawole has been arguably the most notable sports person here (at least one of the most reknowned)

Well, standards must be low.

Please return to your Arsenal thread and leave us alone. Akolawole is the one who started throwing insults so I am just returning them. I just answered his question and he is the one who started with the insults. Its not like its that serious.

hehehehe

Akolawole:
1) Untill 1993 CAF don't give awards to African footballer of the year. It was a french magazine that does that but SACTIONED by CAF. The same thing applies to FIFA. sheck out this on wikipedia, particularly read the individual honours in 1987 and 1989. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruud_Gullit

2) You also state that Kerry Dixon/Speedy was our greatest ever strike partnership. By what criteria do you reach this conclusion? Remember that we were a lower division side at the time.

3) Why must i use your own criteria in selecting my choice of question? Who are you? Are you Muki or seun Osewa?

(1.) Provide evidence that the World Soccer awards were SANCTIONED by FIFA. Olodo!

(2.) Check what out? Kerry Dixon was Chelsea top goalscorer - does that make him a better player than the players we have now. He did most of his work in the 2nd division. It is YOUR opinion that Dixon is our best striker. It is also YOUR opinion that the Gudjohnsen and Hasselbaink partnership was as good as the Keane/Berbatov partnership. Please don't put it in a quiz. Ask straighforward questions.

(3.) Use Universal criteria

The players are not mentally up for the challenge after Arsenal broke their hearts yesterday. I fully expected us to drop points against Wigan so Im not surprised. My friend who is a Chelsea fan even bet £10 that we would draw - and we did.

Akolawole:
2) Ruud Gulit- Player then Manager
     George Opong Weah-Player

Both are ex- FIFA World Best players

How can Ruud Gullit be FIFA player of the year when the FIFA award didn't start till 1991? He was World Soccer Magazine Player of the Year, never FIFA player of the year.

You also state that Kerry Dixon/Speedy was our greatest ever strike partnership. By what criteria do you reach this conclusion? Remember that we were a lower division side at the time.

Who the hell is Gordon Davies? Please stick to recent history, preferably the last 12 years if you take that most Chelsea fans who are Nigerian started supporting the club after Babayaro joined in 1997.

What a shitty quiz!

Please - why does Pator Chris only heal the people with unnoticable diseases. When I see a withered hand fully transform on the screen before my very eyes, then I will believe he is real. It is too easy to sit an abled person in a wheelchair and make him stand up. When I see someone whose leg is withered - when the leg actually straightens out before my very eyes, then I will believe. Until then, Pastor Chris is just as fake as his accent.

IMHO, there is something extremely and fundamentally wrong with Pastor Chris accent.

Either:

(a.) He puts it on as a show to attract more people to his church

                                     OR

(b.) He is so unsure of himself that he has to put on such a fake accent.


Either reason you pick, it is unbecoming of a man of God.


Not to mention frying his hair and all that other stuff. He copied Ayo Oritsejafors blueprint. That hairstyle was cool in the 60's bro. Not anymore. There is a self hatred in Pastor Chris style. Maybe being a black African is not good enough for him. Whatever the case, it is all an elaborate scam.

And I am a believer by the way.

There have been some unbelievable quotes from Chelsea staff recently:

Kenyon: "Grant does not have to win anything to remain as coach next season."

Grant: "Although Milan are interested in Sheva, I want to keep the same squad for next season and I want Sheva to be here next season."

The only explanation for Kenyons quote is that he doesn't want Grant to lose face with the players especially with some crucial games coming up.

As for Grants quote, I guess Mr Abramovic is tryin to get as much money as he can from Milan.

Otherwise, both quotes seem completely out of place with the reality of the situation.

Its good that Liverpool are winning. Hopefully that will demoralise Everton for Thursday's match. Let us pray Arsenal also get a result at Man Utd.

Please we don't want any of those players especially not for those prices. The only one we have concrete interest in is David Bentley and I wouldn't pay more than £10m for him. Aiden McGeady is better than him anyway. We should be getting the likes of Quaresma and Diego Capel instead. Capel wouldn't cost more than £10m. Which paper is saying we are still interested in Dani Alves. This is just lazy journalists regurgitating the same old stories. Benzema, Aguero, yada yada yada.

Anyway, read this:


http://www.goal.com/en-US/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=657409


The Chelsea dressing room was the scene of more unrest in midweek after Chelsea captain John Terry laid into his team mates after the Blues’ win over Fenerbahce, reveals the News of the World

Television cameras picked up the defender storming off the pitch after the final whistle and now the paper has revealed that Terry was so disappointed with his team’s performance that he couldn’t wait to get back into the dressing room.
Despite Chelsea winning the game 2-0 and thus booking themselves a semi-final spot in the Champions League against Liverpool, it is thought that Terry was unhappy with the way his team played the game was and couldn’t wait to tell his team mates exactly what he thought of them.

Apparently Terry is so concerned with the way his team’s performances have dipped in recent weeks that his desperate rant was designed to shake some of his team mates out of their comfort zone and ensure that they do not end the season empty-handed.

Despite being on a long unbeaten run in the league, stretching back to December, Chelsea have been facing criticism in recent weeks for their lack of goals and flair, especially when compared with some of the football being played by title rivals Arsenal and Manchester United.

Terry meanwhile is anxious that nothing is being done to halt the slide in performance level and rather than wait for manager Avram Grant to take charge of the situation decided to take the matter into his own hands.

It is reported that Terry singled out team mates Michael Essien, who was booked in the last minute of the game and will miss the first leg of the semi-final through suspension, and striker Didier Drogba for particular criticism.

Drogba, as has been reported many times already this season, is thought to be unsettled as it is at Stamford Bridge and looking to leave at the end of the season and this episode is only likely to have reinforced his desire to quit the West London club.

somze:
We may just need someone who is accomplished. Who can switch easily from entertaining style of play, to a pure fighting and wining game.

I have a wish list -

Lippi and Zola
Hiddink and Steve Clarke
Luiz Felipe Scolari and Steve Clarke
Didier Deschamps and Clarke
Micheal Laudrup

Trust me, his teams have a winning mentality. They had a man sent off against Bayern in the 1st minute and still went on to lead 3-1. If not for their goalkeepers errors, they would have won the game comfortably. Not to mention their 1-0 win at Camp Nou.

All the above you mentioned are good candidates. I am not sure about Lippi sha. His style of play is very stiff and he may have problems adapting to English football. I don't think he has ever coached outside Italy unless I am mistaken. Deschamps, I am not sure - his Monaco team was poor with the exception of the Champions league final run which he meekly surrendered to Mourinho. He also did not have the belief that Juventus could challenge for Champions League this season so he left - something that Tinkerman Ranieri is doing quite comfortably. I think that shows a lack of self belief on his part. For me sha, the two outstanding candidates are Hiddink and Laudrup for now. Big Phil also - although we have never seen him coach a European club side. Based on his age, his status as a player - and his footballing philosophy, I would like to see us give Laudrup a shot.