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mostob:
Hannah hampton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 just went on talk sport and revealed that during the pen shootout she realised Cata had her waterbottle in the goal with the stats for penalties on it. So hannah picked it up and threw it into the crowd and replaced it with her water bottle. When beth went up to take her penalty, hannah saw cata looking around for her water bottle which obviously was nowhere to be found. Hannah said she was trying really hard not to laugh when she saw cata looking for it 😭😭

Talk about shithousery

#WAFWOS #WEURO2025 #lionesses #LaRoja #Spain #england #BarclaysWSL #barcelona #LaLiga #london

AndSunGorilla:
Can that hannah make heaven like dat

mostob:


Part of me think it's unsportsmanlike though. Why you go touch another person's bottle. But then, you gats do everything to win.

For example Suarez handball, Valverde clipping that Atletico guy.

naptu2:
Memories.

(I was waiting to see the interaction).

It was the final of a basketball tournament at the National Stadium in the late 1980s or early 1990s and it was being shown live on TV.

Admiral Aikhomu was the special guest of honour. There was a line of senior basketball officials at the center of the court and the Admiral was shaking hands with them.

I was waiting to see what would happen when Aikhomu got to a certain man. I think the man was wearing a tracksuit, but I can't remember for sure.

Aikhomu got to the man and offered his hand, but the man first stood at attention before he shook the Admiral's hand.

Sam Ahmedu was in civilian attire (and that's why he didn't salute), but he stood at attention. I think this was before he became a colonel and this was certainly long before he founded Dodan Warriors.

aswani:
Super thread naptu2, a shame the "football is bigger" people must come here to add nothing to the thread.

I don't think you mentioned Chukah Momah who was the presenter for NBA basketball extended match highlights in the mid-eighties for an NTA networked prime time programme.

To your point about impromptu basketball courts, at my secondary school we used tree branches as the basket. One curved enough overlapping another branch to form a hole of sorts. Very popular when someone turned up with a basketball.

At Uniben, there was a decent court that was relatively well maintained and used. NUGA games unfailingly had basketball as did Sports festivals. The NYSC camp that I went to also had a basketball tournament between platoons. Forces games and the likes also had basketball tournaments.

Lagos state used to have yearly basketball secondary schools competitions at Rowe Park in the 80's, well attended they were as well. In fact there was a year that I know that the thugs that followed principals Cup matches turned up, those of a certain age would know why that explains the popularity.

Without wanting to feed into the "football trolling in a basketball thread" fire, I think the younger generation don't seem to realise that at some point, sportsmen and women were multi disciplined and it wasn't all about football.

In the old Bendel state, Afuze games village, New era secondary school was set up for budding sports people, not just footballers.

What about press coverage, evening newspapers particularly in Lagos were big on previewing Basketball, Handball and Volleyball tournaments and the Sports part of the Network news carried highlights of tournaments too.

I and my friends never did get to go to the indoor Sports hall at Surulere but I knew the names of a lot of the teams you mentioned. I am also not an "Island boy" which seems to be some kind of inference about why you know these things from our trolling friends.

Keep up the super work.

Chienex24:
Oga rest! You just wan argue!!! Football is 10x more popular than basketball due to his stated facts. You be person wey go reach Brazil still argue with them about football and basketball popularity. Rest jare!!!