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Haha!! Oh please! If you wanna compare Messi v Cristiano aka fake Ronaldo, please compare their head to head encounters. They have so many head to head for anyone to cherry pick matches to make a point. It's just like saying Derby County defeated Man Utd at Old Trafford, and Man Utd held Chelsea to a draw at Stamford Bridge; therefore Derby County should defeat Chelsea


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Martinez19:
it does not work like that. Juventus and As Roma sent Barca out of the ucl in 2017 & 2018 seasons respectively and guess what, Messi didn't score a single goal in those knockout stages fixtures but Ronaldo scored a brace in ucl 2017 final against Juventus.

Again, focus on the FACTS as I presented them and cut out all that emotional outbursts.

If La Liga is a two horse race, what does that make the EPL? Since in 5 years, 3 different teams have won La Liga and in the past 5 years 3 different teams have won the EPL.

Facts are stubborn things, aren't there


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obonujoker:
La Liga is a 2 horse race.... stop deceiving yourself....

Good to know, because I was just about to part ways with him.


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MedicalSamwise:
It's photoshop

I concur


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Icon4s:
Being Arsenal's best player doesn't mean he will automatically make EPL 11.

I am really glad Success made it.

Is that a photoshop or was Messi actually making the illuminati sign I hope not


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What two dog race are you talking about? Over the past 5 years, three teams (Barca, Real, and Athleti) have won the La Liga titles and three teams (Leicester, Chelsea, and City) have won the EPL. So where did the two dog race assumption came from


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obonujoker:
If we are going by that, than EPL is better than LaLiga-that is a two horse race league

Wow. This one should be featured on "love-vendor my Ride".


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Well, he didn't score but I believe he was Arsenal's best player on Sunday. Don'cha agree


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Icon4s:
He didn't do enough this last weekend to merit a place.

FIXED: Juve has some of the best defenders in Europe.


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vroy:
serie A got one of d best defenders in Europe

I have ONE question for you. When was the last time any other team besides Juve won Serie A?

If you can answer that question then you'd know where I am coming from!


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obonujoker:
Yes na... I heard Barca beat Roma 10-0....

Actually, I have a better analogy: It's so uncompetitive that Juve has won 7 straight serie A titles.


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Slikbae:
Yes it's so uncompetitive that most serie A teams have won English teams so far this year. Very very uncompetitive

Nah, I am pretty sure that Petrobros is a dude. That's the only reason he's got the word "bros" in his moniker. So there's no lgbtq issue here, methinks.


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Taliban:
No oh, I mean say petrobas do the right thing by being woman wrapper abi na man wrapper e go be.

All these half baked Naija bloggers sef. They can't even tell the difference between 10,000 dollars and 10,000 pounds


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Tessyama1:
Nigerian professional footballer and DJ Cuppy's ex-boyfriend, Victor Anichebe has called out fellow footballer, Stéphane Sessègnon, a Beninese footballer who plays for Turkish club Gençlerbirliği.

According to Victor, Stéphane is owing him $10k and has refused paying or picking his calls for a long time now. Sessegnon and Anichebe were both West Brom players, but they left in September 2013.

Although he has now deleted the post he made on Instagram, check it out below...

https://www.amagitesblog.com/2018/10/dj-cuppys-ex-boyfriend-victor-anichebe-calls-out-fellow-footballer-owing-him-10k.html

Right now, Serie A is so uncompetitive that Cristian Ronaldo ought to be scoring a hatrick in every game, if he's that good.


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I am surprised that Alex Iwobi wasn't nominated as well. Iwobi definitely earned a spot both last week and this week. His performance has been top notch so far this season.


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charlesemeka85:
Isaac Success has been rewarded for his fine performance for Watford in their 3-0 win over Huddersfield Town with a spot in the Premier League team of the week compiled by Whoscored.com.

Success who scored the third goal for Watford in the win was rated 8.3 and was paired in attack alongside Liverpool hitman Mohammed Salah who was rated 8.9.

The recognition is a testament of the new found form of the 22 year old which has also helped him force his way back into the senior national team of Nigeria after over a year absence.

Now back to the form that once made him a hit in Spain with Granada, Success had his second cap for Nigeria at senior level with an appearance in the AFCON 2019 Qualifiers against Libya which Nigeria won 4-0 in Uyo.

He is once again in the squad of players invited by coach Gernot Rohr for the upcoming games against South Africa and Uganda next month and he could possibly add to his number of caps if he gets to play in any of the games.

Haha!! Yes, but some are more knowledgeable than others


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Icon4s:
Oga, everyone here is knowledgeable. So nominate one person.

Taliban, are you a babe
or were you talking about Petrobros?


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Taliban:
Lgbt is a crime in 9ja.

Gosh, I have so many people I want to nominate:

Supernerd, Joebie, et al. Anyway, when does this polling/nomination ends? I want to wait until the last minute so I can nominate any deserving person who's overlooked. And by the way, I will recommend that a few knowledgeable members (my humble self inclusive) should be automatically included in this committee.

#JustSaying


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Icon4s:
Thank you everyone that has responded.

With 20likes and 0 shares it means we have a unanimous decision here, so no time to waste.

Next we go ahead and make nominations of Players Selection Committee members.

Please I crave the involvement of everyone in the house, including those on ghost mode.

Remember the three rules for nomination of Players Selection Committee members
1. You are to nominate one person
2. Do not nominate yourself
3. Do not nominate twice.

Ladies and Gentlemen the floor is open.

Woman wrapper


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Petrobros:
Let me have the honor of opening the floor from the ghost viewing mode: Safarigirl!

Yea, I have seen that video clips. Gwam! Back in the day when we had solid defenders


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Taliban:
Bright was a left back, he was named 10-10 for taking out an Algerian player in a game we had already gotten a red card and the opponents had completed their subs. The tackling was ghost mode as referee no see am, in short he was our equalizer 2000 at the maroc 88 nations cup. Over to Icon4s and kog45 who definitely watched him and other greats like Thompson usiyen and Paul hamilton, I only read about those two.

Some people would sell their soul for a pot of porridge!

Can you say Esau


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Haha!! Buhari couldn't even guarantee free and fair election in the common APC primaries; now he's guaranteeing free and fair elections the entire country. What a joke!!!


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Like for me! Good idea!!


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Icon4s:
NAIRALAND NIGERIAN FOOTBALL AWARDS!



A good and blessed Morning House.

We have all analyzed football here for a couple of years now. We have tasted the joys of victory and agonies of defeat from different competitions we have participated in. And each one we have come out better as we have always learnt one, two or more lessons.

Believe it or not we have here in the house some of the best followers and analysts of Nigerian football. Forget that we argue all the time, but these arguments generally have yielded fruits in certain areas and our national teams have gotten better for it.

DON'T WE THINK IT IS TIME WE STARTED ROLLING OUT AWARDS, IN VARIOUS CATEGORIES, TO WELL DESERVING NIGERIAN NATIONAL TEAM FOOTBALLERS?

Now this is just a suggestion.

If a larger part of the house agree, we go ahead and set up a players selection committee which will be saddled with the responsibly of:
1. Coming up with various award categories eg: Most improved player in 2018, best Nigerian goal in 2018, Most impressive new inclusion, Best young player (U20 and U17), Best SE Goal keeper 2018, Nigerian Player of the year, best Super Falcons player etc.
2. Nominating players for the various award categories selected above (Maximum of 3 for each category). Note that criteria for the selection of these players must be spelt out.
3. Collating and announcing of results after the votings.

How do we come up with who and who will make up the Players' Selection committee?
I would suggest a 3 Man (or woman ) Committee. The house will have to suggest monikers. Every member of this thread or even visitors would have to nominate one person he or she feels should be a member of this committee. Note that you cannot nominate your self and you cannot nominate more than 1 person. 3 monikers with the highest number of nominations will form the players selection committee.

If we agree, we can set 1 week period for which we can suggest names for the selection committee and the selection committee will have to start work immediately after the Nigeria vs Uganda friendly. So that the voting process will commence first week in December.

At the end of the exercise a thread will be created to publish the names of awardees and mods called upon to take to front page or we may even take it to the sports sections of major News Papers in Nigeria.

Note again that it is just a suggestion and open to more ideas and suggestions.

The simple thing to do for a start is if you agree you click "like" and if you do not agree you click ''share''.


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10-10 - Bright Omokaro? I thought he was a center back along with Sunday Eboigbe. No?

Anyway, I didn't really watch those guys. They were a little before my time, unfortunately


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Taliban:
What about 10-10 and David adiele.

This must be a joke! Forgiveness, when did you start watching soccer? Are you sure you watched Ben Iroha and/or Celestine Babayaro play at their prime


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forgiveness:
Taiwo is better than those two.

Igbo Amaka!

Ndi Igbo kwenu .... kwenu ... kwezue nu!!!



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yea, I had corrected that omission already.

TT had a deadly left foot and deserves a mention after Ben and Baba


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Odunayaw:
Taye Taiwo nko

Oh, no question! Well, I thought he was left out due to the injury he copped up before the Libya game.

but if he's been playing for his club then Rohr has questions to answer. Who knows whether he even sustained any injuries before the Libya game in the first place. Maybe he just "pushed" to leave camp.


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tbaba1234:
He has played all the games for his club. And he is better than Agu.

Very soon, they'd start mentioning the brown roof capital of the world


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iSage:
Watch how bigots invade this thread (+_+)

The midfield is OK considering our options. Word on the street is that Mikel has semi-retired and I am not sure that Onazi is 100% fit yet. And I doubt if his club would agree to release him so soon after suffering injury.

My only concern is that we didn't invite Awazien who can play various positions. But all in all, you can only play with two DMs/CMs at a time. And we have 3, so we're well covered ... including one reserve


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Danielnino00:
I wasn't expecting much addition to the list TBH.. Save.for d midfield,its a good list


Rohr's lineup for d game is predictable already. One of Ogu or Agu will replace Ndidi.

won't be surprised if its Agu...

Has he played any game since Libya?


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tbaba1234:
Onazi has been playing, why was he not invited??

Mikel has technically retired. Onazi is injured.

.... next question


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krattoss:
no MIKEL no onazi..

I smell controversy.