₦airaland Forum

Arizoner:
Mujtahida, minfelix, I've you noticed Nigeria is the only country that prays before a match

I really see no reason for that. Time to scrap it

Useless spat between Wike and the officer has overshadowed the playoffs.

NFF and bonus wahala too have taken the spotlight.

NasirIbnLaAhad:
More importantly, when have boycotts and protests ever led to systemic, long-lasting solutions in Nigeria? And I'm not talking of quick, temporary policies or fixes that postpone the crisis to a later date.

As far as I'm concerned, this WC ticket is gone, and so is our AFCON title. People won't realize how serious this current issue is now, but I'll be back to say I told you so.

May you not come back and say you told us so. Is it that you believe we cannot qualify and then with this situation, you are masking your pessimism? You speak with so much certainty that we won't qualify and then you stretch it to even the AFCON.

You have been singing it like an anthem and I can discern some triumphant note in your statement. Don't be too sure.

I want us to qualify. I believe we will qualify.

QueenJazz:
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Because it's almost impossible to believe that this is happening. As in why didn't they do this for the Benin match? Why at this crucial moment?

It's just that we are not capable of such finesse and subtlety, I would have said that this whole thing is planned to throw Gabon off the track. But we are incapable of such psychological ploys. We no sabi

Goke7:
Just like you said it’s a Nigerian problem and I think by now every Nigerian sport athlete need to make up their mind if they want to represent the country or not. There’s no point having so much passion or dying to want to be given the opportunity or platform to represent the country and later come up with drama like this. The funny thing is that some of these players today will still end up being part of the nff tomorrow and still nothing will change after all the likes of ikpeba and other ex players are in the nff so for me individuals should make up their mind what they really want. We are just used to blame games as Nigerians when we are just who we are 😂

This is a bad omen. Whenever we have had such issues we go on to lose. Kai. This thing ought not to have come up. At least not now

Amedino99:
2 afcon, 3 afcon qualifiers,2 world cup qualifiers. Over 50 games. Criminals!!!!!

I read now on Charles Anazodo's X handle that it's not true that they are being owed allowances since 2019. That what is owed is the WCQ allowances.

Goke7:
😂 we never even recover from the dampen morale during wcq this one come happen. I guess there may be more drama during Afcon. The players are not serious jare, we can blame nff till tomorrow but I think it’s also not compulsory to honour invitation for your country if you feel you aren’t valued enough. Just pick one side

I just weak. This thing is one of those things one wishes it never happened

Goke7:
😂 we never even recover from the dampen morale during wcq this one come happen. I guess there may be more drama during Afcon. The players are not serious jare, we can blame nff till tomorrow but I think it’s also not compulsory to honour invitation for your country if you feel you aren’t valued enough. Just pick one side

I just weak. This thing is one of those things one wishes it never happened cos it's hard to pass judgment. NFF has been owing them from what I hear since 2019. If it's true then, haba haba

Dannyxy:
I am not corrupt, it starts with not seeing yourself as one, that’s how change starts not by accepting a status quo.

😂😂😂 Nobody is corrupt.

lbrichman2:
Una wicked fot this site

😂😂😂 You don't know that that guy nearly cost us the fourth goal. Go see how him use all him power jump to nod Moses cross. I don't fancy the guy.

Dannyxy:
all this attempts to tag everyone corrupt just to
Justify incompetence is not it, a bad system and stinking structure can’t keep producing leaders, and you expect difference, mindset like yours are the issues, other countries have corruption too but their structures value competence.
Everyone is corrupt so let’s manage the status, that’s a lie, fix your structures and see if people will not fall in line and do the right thing.

Put sane corrupt officials in a Chinese F.A that abhors corruption and value competence then let’s see if they will not adjust.

Theory. 😂😂. I will listen to you when you get there and act differently.

My point is not about accepting status quo. My point is that you have not realized that you have the sickness inside you.

One of Crete's own prophets has said it: “Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons. 1 Titus 1:12

Cocony:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaLaD6o19Q?si=Ex_a5PO7saUETi2d

11 substitutions that changed football history!

If it were about substitutions, I no go join talk with you oo.

Cocony:
Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich, 2015-16 Bundesliga)

In a 2015-16 German Bundesliga game, Bayern Munich were down 1-0 against Wolfsburg when Pep Guardiola subbed in Robert Lewandowski for the second half.

Lewa scored a goal in the 51st minute, doubled his team's lead in the 52nd, and completed his hat-trick by the 55th. He made it four two minutes later, and five at the hour mark.

It took Lewandowski 9 minutes to score five goals, that's a goal every 1.8 minutes. The final score was Lewandowski 5-1 Wolfsburg. It is the fastest hat-trick, quadruple, and five-goal haul in Bundesliga history.

That was his own strategy based on what he wanted to do. He was being proactive. On the contrary, your suggestion is based off what the Gabonese coach intends to do. That's being reactive.

This protest dampen my morale.

Cocony:
Opinions are meant to be aired and when not from the Coach, they are not absolute .

Normally I refrain from commenting on speculative projections like preferred line ups. The reason why I commented on yours is because it was just too outlandish. But it's your opinion sha

So Olakunle too join to protest for bonus. How much NFF owe am? 😂😂😂

Cocony:
You hop onto info you didn't digest properly like the rest of them and you come quoting me.
How about the part I said Lookman, Chukwueze, Akor and Osimhen could start or you only saw the part where I said Osimhen can sit on the bench for 25minutes and the fact that you and the others ignominiously quoting me have not seen it done does not mean it can't be done or it has never been done with success.
Piece of advice: You and others can be polite in disagreeing with someone's point not sounding as if I need you people's likes to validate any point I make.

There's no scenario in which Osimhen should be on the bench. Absolutely none. Lookman, Chukwueze, Akor etc playing makes it even more imperative for Osimhen to play. It has never happened in football that a star player is deliberately kept on the bench as a matter of strategy based on what the opponent say they will do.

QueenJazz:
Nawa. E come be like say I carry this World Cup qualification for head pass everybody for no reason. Tor! Life is too short abeg. Do as thou wilt!

Na your own you know. You no sabi how men dem dey feel.

MKPUOGALIGA:
So well put. Its a systematic problem. Even the less fortunate are worse.

The problem for me is not even our corruption. It is our hypocrisy. We all believe we are incorruptible. But how come tenure after tenure, the same issues persist. When you talk someone will siddle up to you and say "... But, but me, I'm different, I'm not corrupt"

I often hiss in derision at the stupid naivety of such persons. Ogbeni you are not different. You only THINK you are different.

Everybody thinks they are different until they get into the saddle. I judge not by what you say. Actions my brother, actions.

Meliforme:
Don't make the error of opining that everyone else is evil.
Do not hold on to that lie.
Do not be deceived, not everyone is corrupt.

I talk am.

Goke7:
You capture it all, that’s why most times am not bothered. I think the players are also trying not to be played by the nff just in case they don’t qualify as they know they won’t see any kobo any longer. It’s a Nigerian problem not just an nff issue as you rightly pointed out. I only just thought the players were more eager to get thru the playoffs

I really thought the same thing about the players. Such a crucial moment. I understand that the arrears stretches way back oo but I really thought that their desire to be at the WC is stronger than anything else.

Cocony:
Noted. You'll make a beer-parlour analyst with your gibberish opinion

But he's right. In what world of football has a coach kept his hot arrow head of an attacker like Osimhen on the bench because the opposing coach intends to mark him?

In France 98 Brazil lost because Ronaldo mysteriously fell ill on the eve of the finals yet even at that Brazil still featured him. In the build up to Korea Japan 2002, Beckam was England's star player. He had a toe injury some weeks to the WC. England did everything to get him to heal fast.

The point is that we have a star player. A destroyer of defences, a lion, a bull. He's fit and in hot form, you say we should keep him on the bench and bring him 25 minutes into a crucial WCQ play off. I've never heard or seen such a strategy deployed in football. I weak

The problem with Nigeria is that NFF no good but the shocking but hard to admit fact is that those complaining and condemning NFF too are no good. Put them there, they will do the same thing!

So whatever NFF does really doesn't bother me if not that this touches on the players welfare. Any body who has followed naija football, knows that perenially this issues of ineptitude and corruption, of unpaid bonuses and scandals dogs every administration of the NFF which proves my point.
I was in Secondary school reading newspapers and the complaints were the same. Presidents come and go yet the same problem persist. Does this not tell us something about ourselves which we often don't like to admit - namely that it is we ourselves - you, me, everyone else, without exception - who are the problem of Nigeria?

Someone will soon come and counter me now by saying me oo, I'm not corrupt.

QueenJazz:
Omo I'd rather we find a way to wrap things up in 90 minutes for this game, then against Cameroon or DRC, it can end in penalties.

How many times have Nigeria gone ahead to win a game in the next stage of the knockouts after playing penalties? 2006 and 2023 AFCON failures come to mind.

Besides, we need the boys in full strength going to the finals, unshackled by fatigue.

My two cents sha.

Can we bear penalties? The tension will be too much oo.

solonnachi:
My brother. I wonder oooo. Is he still on the way?

Abi na mind games? Cos how is it that since on Sunday Osimhen never reach camp?

AndSunGorilla:
Your customer too no loose hope o. Hope say im no dey owe u.

Plenty sef. Once we qualify, he will pay

😂😂😂
For those who enjoy putting out line ups, I think this one takes the crown 👇👇

BankyGee:
This guy, your confidence since this World Cup qualifiers began till now is just unreal and omo, maximum respect for you. We will qualify, and if God forbid we eventually don't qualify, you don too try. Omooooooooooooooooo.

Low-key na you I dey use boost my hope too most of the time... 🫡

Even when all hope appeared lost, minfelix had faith that we will qualify. He's the sort of guy you'd want around you when you are faced with a daunting task.

I hope there's a minfelix among our players. I really do hope they have one or two who fire them on with belief and faith.

mekabuachi:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQ4SLqhjawS/?igsh=MWJ3eGs2bDc0MXlqYQ==
Please everyone watch this.. apparently it was the back of the hotel not the hotel itself

See, when it comes to news on SM, I try to let at least a day pass before I take a position. We react too quickly in the flurry of news on SM, passing judgment, reaching conclusions which later turn out to be incorrect because the news is false

minfelix:
i really dont know why this Gabon game is not freaking me like the
Nigeria vs Benin and the outcome of SA vs Rwa….i was highly tensed that last month….

i could remember at the afcon when we where about meeting Cameroon my body was vibrating with fear, after the game i wasn’t freaked about the Quarterfinals vs Angola, but my trembling returned when we were to meet SA

Then you have a faith - fear - faith - fear rhythm in relation to our team.

All I know is that we are going to the world cup

MetalJigsaw:
Lol.. Why do you think so?

Chochocho too much