₦airaland Forum

Darkprime:
They're wasting their time, if true.

In soccer, any protests lodged to deduct points solely on the grounds of a referee's missed call concerning the goal's validity will not stand. There won't even be a replay. The reason is because there is a crucial distinction established in global sports law: disciplinary sanctions related to administrative integrity are entirely different from those related to sporting judgment. Sanctions resulting in match forfeiture (a 3-0 loss) and point deduction are usually reserved for serious breaches of competition statutes, not for referee errors. As we all know, these breaches typically involve FDC (FIFA Disciplinary Code) Article 19 (of felding ineligible player) or Article 20 (of match manipulation). And these are often matters of administrative fact that lie entirely outside the referee's on-field discretion.

So if South Africa are really serious about achieving the desired 3-point deduction because of the handball, they would have to prove that Nigeria had committed an intentional statutory breach by deliberately manipulating the match beforehand (FDC Art. 20). Since the core of the protest is a referee's judgment call, the legal mechanism for point deduction is entirely inapplicable. Na dem do themselves. They thought they were wise taking us to play football in a farm and removing VAR, now it has come back to bite them.

On a lighter note, I would like them to keep wasting their resources and strategic focus on the handball incident. Lol. At least their focus will be shifted immediately from preparation for the remaining World Cup qualification fixtures and it might taint their mindset. So yeah, let them keep chasing shadows.

South Africa actually had a world cup qualifiers match replayed against Senegal where the Ghanaian referee in the initial leg was suspended by FIFA. So I guess that's why they believe there is a chance that can happen. This only shows they are tensed and uncomfortable in their camp. I'm banking of Zimbabwe to do that magic.

elyte89:
They should not shiver ..Dey have d squad to get d necessary 4points …Dey av everything in deir hands

It's good they shiver and doubt themselves. Let them not get that 4 points and I pray FIFA grants them a rematch against super eagles, then we will show them who the real boss is.

TheSuperNerd:
Lukaku was actually a beast before he hit 17. And by beast, I mean "literally". U16 Lukaku was taller than Refs naa... at 13, he was an unfair freak of nature vs Fellow 13 yr olds. So it is no surprise he got into Anderlecht's first team by age 16.

Oh just seeing this.

Odunayaw:
I have grown used to insane stats for Pele but what is Lukaku doing there 😳
That guy deserves more credit than we care to give

Lukaku was a huge prodigy when he was a youngster at Anderlecht. At 16 he was built like a man already.

Danielnino00:
It seems like Onyedika and Dele Bashiru are injured, hence their omission from the list... But the midfield is still flat... Why drop Uche?? Too many strikers in the team...Osimhen, Moffi, Dessers, Adams, Tolu ..5 strikers...for what Na ?

It is a TEAM with or without any player.
Uche is still new in this team
He doesn't have a strong hold yet, either at midfield or offensive wise above the other players. He is not gonna play the DM role like Alhassan Yusuf who is actively playing that role, neither is his offensive intuition as natural as any of the forward. He is currently adjusting to life in EPL and barely getting time to play. However he will come good in a team like crystal palace if he buries his head to work.

TheSuperNerd:
Kwara Utd. So you could score 3 goals in Ghana but could not score 1 in Kwara... Na wa ooo.
Una well done. Kotoko coach don finish Kwara coach now.

But truly the way Kwara United coach spoke about kotoko after losing the first leg was unprofessional, but funny 🤣😅

I can only imagine the momentarily joy on the streets of port novo and the country of Benin right now. Although they're yet to qualify but this feeling will trigger positive ripples for our dear neighboring country. No be only South Africa get neighbouring country. We sef get Benin currently topping the group. I'd rather Benin have a taste of the world cup than south Africa. So we can say all Togo, Benin as well as the big boys on the coast of west Africa have participated at the world cup.

TheSuperNerd:
Official:

Ebenezer Akinsanmiro MOTM vs Fiorentina today.

Having a natural midfielder whose first lens of European football is in the Italian league is quite impressive. The boy is in his peak. And his MOTM performance is a testament of how much knowledge he embedded over time.

AndSunGorilla:
The sundowns are going DOWN!!!!

The SKY is the limit

elyte89:
C as fifa Dey whine us 🤣🤣🤣..dem say neutral venue yet approved South Africa 🇿🇦 for d clash with Zimbabwe 🇿🇼

We should be doing better, Benin republic should be playing their home games in Nigeria and not far away in ivory coast. They might both be francophone but that's where the advantage ends. However with Nigeria they share borders as well as cultural heritage. Why isn't Nigeria attractive enough for them. Why can we fix our Lagos stadium for them? Aren't we attractive enough for them. Despite how hostile south Africans are to other Africans , yet Lesotho , Zimbabwe etc play their home games there. And they are all in the same qualifiers group. Tomorrow it might be Niger, Chad , Cameroon, Togo or even Ghana. We should put ourselves up there for this situations. Fix Lagos stadiums now! And they will come.

They are bidding to host the common wealth games for Abuja, leave that and host the women's AFCON. It's a smaller project and less expensive and it improve a whole lot. But more importantly fix this surulere stadium.

TheSuperNerd:
Multiple caps Super Eagles Winger, Samuel Kalu joins Botev Plovdiv of Bulgaria as a free agent. Was unveiled yesterday.

The Nigerian league should aim a bit better to have players like his status return or play in a league club. Imagine this guy on the bench for Remo stars as they play CAF CL . It will create an upward effect on the players like Ngenge and the rest. Not when we are having Ismaila the RB leaving Remo to an obscure league

Point of correction. The NFF never chased Pesiero. It was after his team peaked during AFCON that he wanted a better offer. Should Pesiero have continued and not Finidi, we probably might have not found ourselves in this position even though he started with two draws. He found a team or discovered a team with the right tempo to grind out victories. He was also unknown to us when the NFF technical team brought him to us after the reign of Rohr.
Put this same boys under Chelle for two weeks and see if they will not reach another AFCON semifinals in the least sense. There is a dearth of technicality in our local managers. Eguavone in his last stint couldn't get to the semifinals of the AFCON even though his team played good football at the group stage, especially our one nil victory over Egypt who ended up in the finals only to lose to Senegal on penalty.

Let's forget all this stress and tension. Let's look forward to growing with Chelle as AFCON progresses and one thing we can be sure of is that we have a manager who will stay longer than Rohr and is quite younger than Rohr to do exploits with our team. Even when it's time for a new agreement it will not be as difficult as it was to convince Rohr. We the fans have to exercise patience.

Goke7:
But it was agreed here that we played rubbish in the AFCON, or were we that good? cos if I remember very well, that's why we chased Paseiro away, that our players were too good and world-class to be playing haram football. We need to put things in proper perspective, cos am one of those who still feel we ruined it all with the poor management of the Afcon success. Some tactics worked well for us that we just needed to build upon, but hey, we threw everything away in arrogance.

BankyGee:
Omo... Is it just me or Arokodare doesn't have good positioning?

And he doesn't press or "hustle" for the ball enough, he just seems to be strolling on the pitch most of the time.

I hope he gets better soon enough.

The EPL exposes your frailties...The sort of teams Asamoah Gyan was leading at Sunderland and scoring in the EPL. Or when Osase Odemwinge arrived from lille and was playing at West brom winning EPL player of the months twice in a season.
Tolu knew what he signed up for , we all knew it here that Wolves was bound for relegation.
Christantus Uche was smart enough to avoid them. This sort of risk it all approach to the EPL is not good for many. I hope he doesn't fall under the weight of the mounting pressure, because he looks like a soft and easy lad.
The same thing Paul Onuachu did when he went to Southampton. Only to find his foot at Turkey.

Better bring on chukweze , no better winger out there.

Sainty92:
In as much as I like Frederick's calm defensive presence, I still have the feeling that this game can be a tight game where Ekong bullet header from a corner kick can just give us a 1-0 victory.
The coach has the final decision anyway.

Na ekong bullet own goal ooo. But thank God for bassey

Afobear:
Today , the tears will be massive and sweet Wena

How market?

You guys should stop being sore losers.

What is all this negativity about. It's draining and killing.

Support the boys as they step out. That's the minimum you can do. Rather than spewing venoms

South Africa have played really well. No doubt about that. They came third at AFCON while Nigeria came second. The consistency and growth in their national team is obvious for all neutral to observe.

Sadly, Nigeria is in a precarious situation, we missed out of the last world cup to an African rival. Missing out of another world cup to our anglophone rival again is a hard pill to swallow.

Football isn't just a sport for us, it is a lifestyle, it is an escape from the struggles of our society. It is our little hope and joy. We may not have played well from the beginning of this qualifiers, but we know what we have to do right at the end. We are more than capable of grabbing the maximum 12 points in our remaining fixtures.

That's what defines us, that's what defines the Nigerian spirit. The Nigerian mentality. We are a people of struggle and we know how to crack the egg from the inside when it matters most. This is the Nigerian spirit. We'd never give up.

But now, it will be a game of politics and law. We in our character and element will not let go of South Africa's foul play that allowed for a suspended player to participate in a game where he should be on suspension.

It's the law, not bullying. We can't bully south Africa, they are not Lesotho or Swaziland for us to bully. They are an economic giant of Africa. But it is rather unfortunate that the law is supreme. We have equally been on the receiving end of the law. So at the end of the day should Nigeria finish with the maximum points it is only right that South Africa loses their 3 points .

I wish the south African side success, I know they are a good side. Well funded and on the right trajectory. But this world cup is not for them.

They shouldn't have waited that long to deduct Nigeria's point after our last game against Algeria since they sent us a mail that shehu couldn't play and we played him , they could have instantly on the pitch or after the match annulled our points. Rather they waited till a fortnight before the world cup draws to announce our point deduction.

JohnBullMySon:
That’s not how FIFA rules are applied. For example FIFA rules are very clear on what constitutes a goal. But when the referee makes an error, does the goal get cancelled afterwards ? Even when it is technically not a goal. Today we have VAR to assist the referee but if he doesn’t change his mind, nothing will happen.

Usually, when an error has been determined to be from officiating, the result will stand regardless of what any rule states.

Then

AndSunGorilla:
SA didn't make us drop the points we dropped. We have ourselves to blame and nobody else. We are trying to use backdoor now.

#fifa deduct those points from south Africa now.

Ragingthunder:
İlkay Gündoğan has landed!

In his last 3 years in Barcelona and City what has been his substantial contribution. He has only come back home to retire .

Rockyrascal:
more players arrive camp

Moses Simon outfit na why dem dey call am "Daddy"

Crystal palace vs Fulham 😍🥰
Fulham vs Wolves
Wolves vs Forest.

TheSuperNerd:
Christantus Uche to Crystal Palace 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Tolu Arokodare to Wolves 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Samuel Chukwueze to Fulham 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Osimhen may not have gone to the EPL but he gets to play at a top side where he is fully appreciated and mega valued.

Uche's move is the one that actually makes me go gaga. What a move!!! Under Glasner, I expect more improvement tactically. He is EPL-suited and will hopefully be a fine and physically stronger replacement for Eze at Palace.

Welcome to the EPL, Uche. Yaya-regen.

Interesting take. I take a more conservative approach to his move. If really the player was thinking of staying back in getafa for one more season. Shouldn't that mean that he thought of himself as not ready for the journey. Or was it just a smart move of loyalty to Getafa who made the decision to sell him due to financial constraints

lbrichman2:
Great move!

I really want to see how he interprets the game in England. I know he is a power player.
He has his style which is quite distinct from Eze. Wolves was rumored to play him as a striker , but at Palace, Mateta will strike. Will his power playing style work in England which has faster paced game than the tactical driven Spanish league.

Sugarboyy:
I think Palace is a decent club and already on an upward trajectory. They have won 2 trophies in the space of 1 year and this season they have drew Chelsea without conceding and already beating A.Villa 0-2... They are also playing in Europe

How good a story would Chrisantus' be if he could play well for Palace in Europe and the EPL and it leads to another transfer for a bigger club in Europe who then pays three times Palace paid for him

NFF better fly a big banner when we face South Africa.
#FIFA laws must be applied.
#Deduct the points now.
# What are you waiting for

BankyGee:
Chidera Ejuke starts for Sevilla against Getafe
Christantus Uche starts for Getafe against Sevilla

🤪

E be like say I go skip Newcastle vs Liverpool for this match 😋😋😝😋

charlesemeka85:
Pple for X dey talk ooooo 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

“Mikel Obi was not ever seen eating in everyone’s house like an Almajiri. That is why he played for the best club in the world and went far in football. Gen Z super eagles should learn from him”

As a matter of fact Mikel actually moved, lived and operated like a white boy during his playing career. The recent controversial video of his where he shook hands with his former colleagues from the national team and he had struggled to remember one of them cracks me up. Running a podcast now is one thing I find very amusing about his personality because he came of as a reserved and quite soul. I guess there are many ends to this . Osimhen on the other hand might turn out to be an introvert after his career, I mean we can never tell. the more he stays in those climates , the more it refreshes his soul and imagination of life. He grew up in a tough and rough climate that demanded you to toughen up and be extroverted . It was his early survival skills. Today he is in a better climate with a blend of European and Arabic ideals. This will most definitely change him.

Time and time again Boniface keeps screaming he is okay where he is. He enjoys his life how it is. He has fought his battles and many more we wouldn't know about to get to where he is. We shouldn't take what he post as anything personal about him. It's his own guilty pleasure. If two deals collapse within a space of months. He is not complaining, he still has a club where he can go back to. And the club will readily accept him. He recognizes his career could have been over a long time ago when he first had this career threatening injury, through resilience he bounced back and has gone on to make a name for himself in Norway , Belgium as well as Germany as he was a core member of the Leverkusen that went undefeated in that season to win the league. He is ever grateful for that career limelights. He has represented his national team, something every footballer dreams of. Yes he has an eye for social media frivolities, that's just the extra perks of his wholesomeness.

TheLoneCitizen:
The sheer daftness of this Gen z crop of players need to be a lesson for the next set.

Your move to a top club collapses and the whole world uses it to push a narrative that you're unprofessional with social media

Instead of you to read the room, you go ahead to score a cheap post with an IG post which rebounds on your face after the world's most popular journalist misconstrues it.

You now have to go even cheaper by posting DMs of your chat with the said journalist to prove a point, indirectly blacklisting yourself from further reporting by that journalist. All cos of a lack of professionalism

In other words, proving that the world was right about your unprofessionalism.


Even Naira Marley against all odds was able to clean his image because he shut up at the right time

Has Boniface arrived in Milan ?

All this here we go news , wetin dey happen since three days ago.

I believe the CHAN Eagles still have a chance of making it out of the group stage ?