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Happy birthday Presi, but seriously the street is not smiling, CHANGE IS INEVITABLE.

We can't wait till 2015.

thegoodjoehunt3:
Aluko was to start today. Your comment does not change the fact that fans came with placards to the stadium asking for Uche. As Amaju Pinnick said, he was scared for Coach Keshi's life.

The hand writing was on the wall. He was criticized for calling Aaron Samuel. What about the fans booing the players? Was that Coach Keshi?

So from your statement here, does it mean Uche is the reason why we lost, because i don't get you. Uche entered a team on the fall, and you expect him to perform a miracle all of a sudden, when uche was not playing where they winning? Winning is now foreign to them, check the statistics.

Even if Uche played well, we would still have lost because Uche alone does not constitute our better players that Keshi had left out, he reluctantly called him back but there are others who could compliment that he didn't call, it's a team game, not a one man show, at least he can now leave our football for good.

zeestunner:
No allow tribalistic hate swallow u wetin do emenike ? Abi emenike na ball boy ? No be him be points man ? Abi musa no try for una since world cup and even today 3 goal atempt. Wetin be emenike own hw many atempt? I use God beg una if una wan yarn nonsense make una knw say ppl wey de here no b non sense ppl.

Na true jare, how would you blame Musa, hasn't he been saving your blushes enough? if he has one bad nite, he shouldn't be blamed, the other guys should step up and perform.

Pennyways:
leave GEJ out of this
can you just make a simple comment without mentioning Janathan?

The only way they won't mention GEJ is if he didn't involve himself in something that's entirely not his business.

iamdsam:
Blame Amaju Pinnick for whatever. This man will only destroy our football.

Tell me exactly what Amaju Pinnick did wrong in this situation

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uncle jona

Under Keshi, LifeScore is more important than watching the game because you won't have missed anything at all, just check if we win, if we do, thank God.

we're waiting oh!

I still doubt this story... Strongly, wetin Nigerians no fit do to achieve their goals.

ok o

crownprince102:
if d nff and sport minister is corrupt and clueless, should keshi also join them? If you call Martins an average player, what is ur qualification for sunday emmanuel, chigozie agbim etc. We should all try and get to know why Keshi has remain defiant all become he won the afcon. Hassan sheatta won this same afcon 3 consecutive time with egyptian homebase players and we never heard of him dropping abouterika for an low class player, not for once did he complain and try to dictate to d egyptian FA as Keshi is doing despite the political crisis in the country. He won the afcon 3 consecutive time and resign when he had already lost only 2 matches in d next afcon qualifying campaign when he knew he has given all he had to offer and never said anytin bad abt d country odr FA. As they say, a black man has no shame..... It does apply to Keshi, he said it gallantly that "nigeria is not a serious football country" just becos he was fired. I believe only an "unserious" football coach will coach an "unserious" football country. Keshi said he would never return to d Eagles in an interview wit CABLE in brazil, out of no shame, he came back in even a shameless way...... Its better he preserves it dignity!!!

Your complain here is why i feel tired about Nigerian football, all of the problems just rolled back again, I thought we've moved on, but obviously it's a step forward and 50 steps backards.

Really, the problem is no more Keshi, the problem is the powers that be that won't want our football to move forward. No mattter how great Keshi had performed in the past, a new board was chosen, saddled with the responsibility to manage the game, they came up with their new vision and plan, it was clear to everyone, and part of their plans is that moving forward means doing away with Keshi and having a fresh start, but somebody thinks that they don't know their jobs, now we are back here, complaining exactly about what we're crazily complainig about just 2 to 3 weeks ago, I can't raise my nerves any more.

Will Keshi be the first person to be sacked? many greatly successful people had been sacked, far more successful than Keshi and heavens did not fall, now because he won AFCON, he has to be our life-time coach. Now we know that NFF are just figure head, someone gave the goat but is not leaving the rope, but ofcouse they won't be responsible when everything goes wrong, the person holding the rope is the person we would blame.

And he goes with his political statement again 'who am I to say no'. No worry, if they tell you to put your hand inside fire, na thesame thing you go say abi? no shame for somebody who says they are looking for him allover Africa, na season film... but we're here to see how it will end.

Hymm! I'm short of words, don't even know what to say anymore, i thought we've left confusion, but obviously confusion never leave us, na to just sit down look now, make i they support my Man u they go.

stuff46:
its just the hatred on messie that is the problem.
He was at the world cup with average performance, scored goals,set up plays for otherz. Why complaining about his award given to him? Even if he was to win the world cup without him scoring you would still say he doesnt deserve it. My guy is always good at what ever he does. ( when he was scoring, i am by him. Now that he is more centered on assists, i am in love with it. When he floopz at a game, i am always with him) broz if yu feel that yur hating on him would change a thing about him then you got it wrong.
Barca_all_way

What i don't like about fans is the way we carry things on our head, people analyzing Messi, doesn't mean they hate him, i am a united fan, i like Messi. I like Cr7, i know how messi used to be, i also noticed the decline, so if i talk about it, it doesn't mean i hate messi, moreover no one reigns forever, when Ronaldinho declined, it was so sharp that i who used to love how he plays couldn't believe it, we know Drogba is now an old image of himself, we know Cristiano Ronaldo likes all the attention to be on him, we know Messi is now playing below par, it's not hating, it's just stating the obvious, this doesn't mean he can't wake up tomorrow and get back his form, but we're stating how it stands today.

Is this a Joke or for real? If it's a joke, it must be the most expensive one have seen.

If it's for real, my advice is, don't take your own life for it won't get better for you, it'll be the case of falling from frying pan to fire, either you believe in God or not, when you cross the bridge, you will believe but unfortunately, it's too late... i still have a feeling this is fabricated.

11. Nipolls.com

And a new one just emerged, it aim to be the take Nigeria by storm and be one of the most visited websites in Nigeria in just few months time. It's a social polling network, where Nigerian instead of arguing endlessly can actual vote their OPINION, you can create your own polls, vote on polls and you can make comments with DISQUS to influence people's votes, visit it and tell me what you feel http://nipolls.com

I saw this headline and i just started laughing...Nigeria is the funniest country in the world, really i don't know how our comedians are making it, because we don't need them, just look at the happenings around, sports, police, government, ministries, churches and tell me if you won't laugh, you'll cry and when you're tired of crying, you'll just start laughing...naija i hail o!

Pes13:
I'm a big cr7 fan, I always counter messi's discussions, aggreviated by die-hard messi fans. But lets state d obvious and nt being baised, messi deserves d World cup best player accolade.

Tnxs 2 acursed higuain, palacio nd some fools, Argentina should av won d worldcup b4 extra time with nothing less dan 3-0 margin.
They all wasted messi's individual effort in d final


remember hw argentina played against Nigeria, dey dominated us, but immediately messi was substituted, we started dominating toothless argentina.

Infact check all argentina goals, without messi, dey would av finished bottom with 2 points

But d ballon'dor, cr7 deserves it, nothing more, nothing less.

No germany players deserves it, dey only av excellent team work, dey av no individual exceptional foots.

Emmanuel Nuer had been outstanding for both club and country, is there any rule that says keepers can't win it.

Baddestguyp:
k, d only thing o get from ur post is u don't watch football. maybe na livescores u dey read. messi has been more than fantastic in his new playmaking role but of course he won't score as much as before that's why his assists are higher. if he doesn't play that role, who will? iniesta and xavi are worse than dead on d field.

BTW, he was d best player in d world cup, except u didn't watch his games, he led almost all Argentina attack. created a lot of chances, had d most man of d match awards. plus he won golden ball to show for it, wat more can u ask for. even ronaldo too was invisible in some games, so I blame live scores not you

your lifescore comment is funny. I'll admit i don't watch Spanish league everyweek, but i watch the classico and 1st time i don't see messi, even in the playmaker position, abi na him go 1st play that role? We saw how xavi and iniesta played in the past, they might not be profound but no one can deny their impact on the game, so playmaking doesn't make you disappear. I also watch the world cup, while I'll agree he doesn't do too badly but it was still far below the Messi's performance, no impact in the final, the best players where maserano and Lavezzi, maybe he only did well against the super eagles and Iran.

The Super-MessiMan that we used to know seems to be a shadow of himself, he had been dwindling in quality for a while now, as far back as two seasons, though he does always come back to prove critics wrong by answering with hatricks or some other top performances, but he seems not to be able to reenact the magic this days, at the world cup, he was so ordinary and sometime you will wonder if he was in the match, but you would think he'll dust himself from that disappointment just as we saw his counterpart critiano ronaldo did, but i watch the worst game messi played in the last El classico, he practically disappeared from the field only to show up to collect yellow card, it seems his career his winding up, what do you think, do you share my view or disagree? share your opinion.

PDP and APC; the resurgence of TOM and JERRY

They have a valid point, the easiest way for a deadly disease like a Ebola can spread is through a major African event like Afcon, the developed world, Europe and America are still struggling with containing it, how much more poor Africa

Afam4eva:
Nigerian fans are probably the most emotionally driven fans in the world. They change their minds willy-nilly without doing some logical assessment on the subject matter. keshi has always been an above average coach which is a pass mark in my opinion but that does not make him a world class coach by any standard. His previous outing for several African countries were moderate but not fantastic. His greatest achievement was qualifying an African team for a world cup against other African teams, not European, South American or Asian teams. The truth is that African football is still in the dark ages and does not require any form of gargantuan coaching skills to win. In Africa, you can bulldoze your way into winning any competition and when you eventually play countries from other continents, your weaknesses starts to show. I shuddered at how Keshi's rankings increased after the world cup. Not that it's not normal for a coach who won a major competition to be praised but we did so without properly analyzing the idiosyncrasies of our outing and the technical depth inherent in the team. The truth is that we did not do anything fantastic at the nations cup. We were just an average team that was lucky. It's not like other teams were fantastic and we took them out. They were simply African teams. Our weaknesses were exposed at the confederations and world cup. So, the moral f the story is that you shouldn't wait until a team starts performing badly before evaluating the capabilities of the coach.

Perfect analysis, this explains the difference between Keshi's success and westerof's success, African football as gone bad, it's almost nothing special to be African champions now, the last set of deserving African champions are Egypt, Zambia won by luck, so did Nigeria, when Egypt won, they dominated for 3 consecutive tournaments showing it wasn't fluke, they were the best, Nigeria should also have won more after Tunisia 94 if not for Abacha, but when they came back in 2000, they reached the final loosing to Cameroon on penalties, that's how strong teams are built, not quick fix football, not RESULTconsciousness in place of a STRONG TEAM development, let's hope our new NFF board will get it right, give us a coach Foreign or Local that's sound and will develop a STRONG team we can be proud of.

Keshi's sack, a welcome development but the replacement is not acceptable, we can do better than that.

This man is suffering from excusities, the disease that makes you to want to give excuses rather than take responsibilities.

The people who want you to fall, did they just arrive yesterday? No, when you where succeeding, they where there but they couldn't do anything about you. If you're succeeding now, they'll still not be able to do anything about you, that's how it is with every coach, everyone wouldn't like you but when you're getting results they'll shut up.

Keshi you started falling when

1. You arrogate all power to yourself, you're the Alfa and Omega
2. You started Players marketing; calling players from Malta and China who rarely perform per week @the expense of inform players
3. When you started disrespecting your employers, giving then bad names in the media because you're succeeding
4. When you rejected technical inputs because of pride though it's obvious you can't change a game to save url life, no TACTICS, no Ggame changer
5. When you put blames on your most performing players after every disappointing match
6. When you chose rather to focus on RESULTS rather than build a STRONG TEAM
7. When you don't care about the fans and what they want, it's all about you, you're the boss
8. When you're started playing politics, bringing up people to influence things for you
9. The most important, when the result became very bad, defending champions having just one point in a group that has Sudan, Congo and south Africa
Enough said...

One thing i know is, you had the freedom to choose your prayers, to practise with them, you where with them in the 90 minutes when they play, if you and them give the best, all enemies in hell won't stop your success. Mr. Keshi pls accept responsibility.

Raiders:
we didn't win the nations cup by luck. We won our games by hard work. The problem is not Keshi but the NFA. How would you expect a man to perform if you don't pay him. Keshi has been out of contract since the end of the world cup. You don't always win all the time in football. Spain has a good coach but they didn't do well in the world cup and are not doing well currently. Keshi needs Nigeria support because he help us qualify for last world cup and also won the last nations cup. Sacking keshi now will take our football backwards

An retaining him will take it forward?

Is it because the NFF owed him that he can't put a winning team together? is that why he sidelines the best players in the squad and call players from Malta, is that why he keep on rebuilding forever? no NFF is not Keshi's problem, he knew that they'll eventually pay him so all he need to do is to deliver so that the money he collects will be deserved. Keshi is not the only national team coach, the women's coaches, the age grade coaches also have thesame issues of not been paid as due, but they never give this funny excuse for lack of performance. The last tournament where our under 21 girl reached final, the football house was in disorder, they treat this girls and their coaches far worse than they treat eagles and Keshi, but you'll never hear any funny excuse, they just deliver. That doesn't mean that i support NFF's ways, but if football is your business, your passion, the success comes first, when you succeed people will even fight for you, as a SE coach, there are other opportunities apart from your salaries, endorsements, contracts etc. that other coaches are not enjoying, Abeg! no excuse should be given for failure Jo!

thegoodjoehunt3:
Coach Del Bosque with the likes of Xavi, Xabi Alonso, Busquets, Silva, Iniesta, Diego Costa etc were humiliated at the World Cup. You want Coach Keshi to perform magic with a team that their best player is Mikel Obi who is on the bench at Chelsea.

So who's fault is it that the team's best player is Mikel Obi? Mine?

steph53:
I will never watch Nigeria match again

You are just making a vow I've made since after world cup, i just they follow commentary on radio and internet, abeg i love my heart!

honeric01:
How do you fire someone you didn't employ?

No wonder the guys not winning, he's doing charity work of course

Weldone Keshi and the Boys, your days are numbered!

what's the meaning of the 'PICTURES' you put in the topic? where are the pictures?