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Fani i thought you get sense, anyway for your mind you cant be arrest again. Ok Watch it. you no go shut your mouth and go to you house. |
That thing is not a recent pix, FFK should be in the hospital, the only time they visit our hospital becos his passport has been sized. Fani my man stay put is not over. I know from now nothing will concern you with any PDP rally to avoid trouble. |
obanikoro! obanikoro!! i wont call you again. i know you are a nice crook, please come back and settle with nigaz |
But wait oooooo, what is Obanikoro doing outside Nigeria? |
gbemmy2k10:are you saying there was No rigging? Liars |
dino is in hot soup already. i dont know how it will happen but ask me, it will happen. |
jagugu88li:lol, sorry i was talking to the driver |
GoodDieYoung:bros please educate us on how to demolish buildings. i wonder what people take to come here and start vomiting trash |
SeverusSnape:Is there any award for LIKES? JUST ASKING. please one should be given to severusSnape. He always vomit TRASH. again TRASH |
you must be on gum to be saying you will not do it again. |
Dino check your time, Call her on phone and do the needful. i know you are a wise man. |
they will wake up and realise they are dreaming. |
STARGREEN:brother buhari they are confessing. you are the one CONFUSING us now when you said Nothing like free money. |
henryagori:senior mumu |
willywasco:How does leaking information to journalist concern impeachment. Nigerianpilot una dey try |
No be only impeach na coup. next....... |
check if you insulted buhari when he was having the same problem |
This was the first European Championship to
feature 24 teams. It won't be the last, but it
should be.
It pains me to say that. Allowing more of Europe
to participate in the continent's grandest
tournament seems like a good and inclusive
thing at first glance, especially in divisive times
like these. If we want to spread the joy of the
game we love, we need to be the opposite of
football's dismissive snobs. We need to make
room for more accents and more styles; we need
to sow the seeds for bigger dreams.
And if this tournament were a ranking of fans,
the so-called minnows won every game they
played. In the midst of terrorist fears and a
French summer seemingly destined to be devoid
of sun, they provided much-needed spirit in every
city buoyed by their happy presence. The Irish
and the Northern Irish? Fabulous. The Welsh?
Lovely as always. The Icelandic? Maybe the best
of the bunch.
But the football? The actual tournament? The
kindest adjective I can think of: forgettable. The
least kind: dismal. I attended 15 matches. I
really enjoyed four of them. Only two, Wales 3-1
Belgium and Italy 2-0 Spain, were beyond good.
They were beautiful. (I wasn't in the stands for
Italy vs. Germany, which was also great.) Most
of the rest were middling to bad; that's in large
part to this tournament's expanded format and
the play it encouraged.
A group stage that eliminates only eight of 24
teams is, pretty obviously, ridiculous. Never mind
the third-place weirdness that saw poor Albania
having to wait around to find out they were
done. Teams knew they had a decent chance of
advancing if they managed a single win. In fact,
the way the seeding broke down, winning
sometimes hurt. Germany were rewarded for
topping their group with knockout games against
Italy and France. Any tournament structure that
provides a built-in disincentive to win needs to
be quickly dismantled.
The group stage also made plain the disparity
between the teams with real title hopes and
those who were in France as a polite courtesy.
The record books show that Ukraine participated,
but I have no recollection of them. Russia and
their Ultras were a stain on and off the pitch.
(Can't wait for that World Cup!) Northern Ireland
didn't belong on the same patch of grass as
Germany; God love them, but they even had to
park the bus against... Wales? The early stages
of this Euro seemed like a merciless prolonging
of the inevitable, the grind of endless
preparations. It turned us all into sous chefs.
The knockout rounds were meant to provide
relief and reward. For the most part they didn't,
especially the Euros' inaugural round of 16. That
gave us three dirges, three lopsided matches,
one shock result but not an especially great
game and a single worthy contest, which
occurred only because it featured two world
powers meeting too early in the tournament.
But by far the biggest condemnation of these
Euros is the team that won it: Portugal.
It's time for me to get something off my chest.
Portugal the side -- not the country, not the
people, but the 23 men who represented them --
were awful. I don't think I've ever
loathed watching a football team as much as I
do them. (You're off the hook, Paraguay .) They
were cynical and unsporting and suffocating and
the flat-out bottom of international football. They
were Greece in 2004 without the underdog's
spirit. Greece had to play the way they did.
Portugal didn't. Given a choice between beauty
and brute tactics, between victory and doing just
enough to get by, they chose the lesser option
every single time.
They advanced out of the groups after draws
with Iceland, Austria, and Hungary, and the one
against Hungary they barely managed. They had
the easiest group, and they finished third in it.
They finished 15th out of the 16 teams to
advance and they only nipped Northern Ireland
on goals scored. Portugal's goal differential was
fittingly, forebodingly, zero.
Their round of 16 game against Croatia was, on
paper, a premier match-up. It turned out to be
the most punishing single match of the
tournament . Neither team recorded a shot on
target until the 117th minute. I thought Italy and
Sweden's near-stalemate in the group stage
would be the dullest game I'd see. Not so,
because I had to watch Portugal. I had to watch
them again and again.
They had to choke Poland into penalties in a
quarterfinal that felt like being confined to a wet
basement. They had a three-minute offensive
burst against a depleted Wales in their semifinal,
good enough -- "Portugal: We're Good Enough!"
-- for their single win in regulation. And in
Sunday's final, extra time was as inevitable as
the descending night. If anybody bothers to
remember that match, Cristiano Ronaldo's injury
will be the thing that sticks. It was a game when
the giant moth on his face could steal the
spotlight instead of being drawn to it.
I still can't believe you can win Euro by winning
once in 90 minutes. I have a friend who
somehow likes Portugal and said, "They didn't
lose, either." But we did. So did football.
My great fear is that other teams will see what
Portugal did here and seek to emulate them, that
their "style" of play will become as insidious as
pollution. I've written before that one way to
counter that tendency is to bring back the
Golden Goal while also removing the coward's
out of penalties. Another way is to make
tournaments harder, not softer. Yes, Greece did
what Greece did but that tournament has always
been considered an anomaly, an unfortunate
fluke. Now, with a second such win in 12 years,
it's becoming more like the frightening norm.
This tournament should give permanent pause to
FIFA's recent talk of a 40-team World Cup.
(We're already going to have Qatar playing three
lucky somebodies in 2022.) And UEFA's
continent-wide iteration of its championship in
2020 should be the last of the 24-team Euros.
Reversion is an ugly word with often ugly
connotations, but it's not nearly as ugly as
football played at its watered-down, hopeless
worst.
Congratulations, Portugal. Enjoy your title. The
rest of us will be over here, putting an asterisk
next to it and doing everything we can to make
sure it will never happen again. by chris jones |
gentility16:i did not attend anything. mean while i have been getting the same kind of message everytime at the same venue. So na scam. |
golor:part of that road is not complete, i mean around that EKE NDIAWA community. maybe the contractors has swallowed that part money. |
SouthernBreeze:MR EDO POLITICS inform us |
aresssa:not even hand written, na typing. they are not serious |
eaglejay13:BORN AND BROUGHT UP! do you even know what is policy? you talk like all this guys that stand in news paper stand to argue to hunger. |
eaglejay13:please make sure you delete this rubbish you wrote here. my dear friend stop thinking and talking like all this village councilors without election. |
attackgat:Okorocha betrayed his people by joining APC. please who is the people and is your name people? ATTACKGAT vomitting rubbish like politicians. |
[quote author=eaglejay13 post=47251855]There's nothing like free education in Imo. Rochas reduced the number of Imolites getting admission into Imsu and accepted more people from other states, increased the school fees, then used it to cover up. What's the use of giving free education that only a selected few will benefit from. The free education by Rochas is a hoax and a scam. [/quote someone talked about primary to university, and you picked only university. fine, let me ask you what of primary and secondary. |
eaglejay13:please give us all the policies that has favoured muslism and notherners. infact WHO ARE YOU? |
Ndlistic:PMD Must be on weed when they said this rubbish. my fellow nairalanders are they talking about their state or country. which means that APC led governmnent in Edo state is doing well. |
then what stops her from swearing in Ogah. you should be telling us why you did not swear in the governor not this crap you are talking here. people shouting rule of law to take its place will also be here condemning Ogah forget how they use to talk about EFCC not charging people to court. |
Before you make sily comment check the source of the news first, then ask yourself if this man is out of EFCC prison to be making such statement. FAYOSE and co working with media to kill this investigation. |
I love PDP, they are talking about court other and bias. Nothing like he did not take our yam. is ovious that he stole our yam good people of Nigeria. let his vomiting start now |
Is it five hundred or nine hundred? fake one indeed, who was doing the counting? Do you know how many people that stays in that local government? moving from APC TO PDP does not matter. Wait until voting starts. PDP promise be like when GEJ told us he heard no shoes. |