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dequir:
4 Nigerians in a top notch match, which other African country can produce that?

Our brothers from LGBTQ+ flag country.

Little wonder ther hate us.

Max dowman abeg I stake one more goal,..

With this win we have sent a statement not only to man city but to Athletico Madrid ..


Come on guys we can do this.

Sccarrr:
We scored 4 goals in the first half..one was cancelled....we no hear dem talk now o😹😉

Na God I take beg una, na on Tuesday we need most of this goals pass

FT. Arsenal really tried now to athletico then West ham

Arsenal still on course for the Double 🏆🏆

If this man starts a religion ....I am joining ♥️
It's crazy how much energy, resilience, passion ,total dedication he brings to every game...no doubt our best player of the season.

IT'S NOT DONE

Lukuluku69:
Arsenal win.

Any win.

1-0
2-1
3-2
2-0
3-1
3-0

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Any win and hoping Everton remove Manchester City two front teeth on Monday night

👍

3-0

Good one.

On to Tuesday night before that >>>>>>>

Everton please do your thing on Monday night

Kalulu44:
Na God I take beg una, na on Tuesday we need most of this goals pass

make una calm down....we got u😹

Reference:
Missed opportunity by the Gunners to load the stats.
It will matter.

Oga nothing missed. 3 goals and u dey still complain, they have a critical match with athletico on Tuesday so reserving their strength should be important

Flangelo12:
How far?

Fulham out, remains Crystal Palace and Westham. One of them must pull out Arsenal's teeth

Azazyel:
Arsenal fans. You guys have started making mouth again abi. I remember when the gap between arsenal and city was at least 7pts and you were certain the league belonged to your team. Trust me you would definitely witness the goals that would turn it into a goal difference affair. The most difficult teams to face right now are relegation threatened teams cos they are party spoilers and I believe arsenal would soon face one of them. Just pray that City stumbles on the way cos if not, the story go long

Well, good luck to City, they can as well try to manage 4 clashes in 12 days first, FA Cup final inclusive.

AwokenVawulence:
Oga nothing missed. 3 goals and u dey still complain, they have a critical match with athletico on Tuesday so reserving their strength should be important

We all know Arsenal the Elephant can never ever win a UCL match. They should have concentrated their strength on winning this like 5-0 but after first half they relaxed. City will play their two games like LIONS and they will come out with good goals.

geoworldedu:
Fulham out, remains Crystal Palace and Westham. One of them must pull out Arsenal's teeth

All of una go wait tire.

Drinkwater2026:
The right ques should be, can Arsenal win all their remaining EPL matches with good goal margins coz we all know what Man city is capable of.

west ham is arsenal problem

Lukuluku69:
3-0

Good one.

On to Tuesday night before that >>>>>>>

Everton please do your thing on Monday night

Everton will make City drop points on Monday. Y'all can take that to the bank.

omooba969:
All of una go wait tire.

That's how we waited for Elephant to crumble and it happened when Bournemouth and City arsewiped Elephant, only for PGMOL to start favouring Arsenal by letting Arsenal play two games before City to put pressure on City, but no lele. We've been here before.

geoworldedu:
We all know Arsenal the Elephant can never ever win a UCL match. They should have concentrated their strength on winning this like 5-0 but after first half they relaxed. City will play their two games like LIONS and they will come out with good goals.

You will come back to eat your words

ezegenigbonine:
In midfield, not in defence.
Play him in defence against athletico and curse him yourself

The last time...arsenal played athletico...he was also used in midfield...that guy is actually a midfielder ..Arteta better start using him in place of zubimendi

AwokenVawulence:
Oga nothing missed. 3 goals and u dey still complain, they have a critical match with athletico on Tuesday so reserving their strength should be important

The guy think say the title would be decided on GD.
Na by points man and Everton will begin that with City on Monday.

geoworldedu:
That's how we waited for Elephant to crumble and it happened when Bournemouth and City arsewiped Elephant, only for PGMOL to start favouring Arsenal by letting Arsenal play two games before City to put pressure on City, but no lele. We've been here before.

I see pains everywhere....so arsenal is supposed to skip their scheduled games because Man city is playing an FA cup semi final right ?...pls banter with knowledge of you want to banter

dequir:
4 Nigerians in a top notch match, which other African country can produce that?

Wow, this is amazing news.

What percentage of the earnings from the game is going to help Nigeria’s extreme poverty population and out of school children?

anonimi:
David Hundeyin
May 4, 2022


I want to sell a script to a Hollywood studio. The story is about a guy who owns a farm that constantly runs at a loss but never quite shuts down.

The farm is massive and underutilised, and the protagonist has all the opportunities in the world to improve its output and get a bumper harvest.

He has access to credit, machinery, free irrigation and gifts from neighbouring farmers, but all he ever does with these things is drink and smoke them away while his family suffers.

Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world

Apart from drinking, smoking and generally being utterly useless, his other pastime is to pump out children at an industrial rate. Needless to say, he takes no care of his children whatsoever, and many of them fail to survive childhood.

Those who do survive have to leave the farm and hire themselves out as hired labour to the neighbouring farmers, having picked up some survival skills from home.

With time, a number of them rise through the ranks and become senior managers, directors and even shareholders in these other farms while their father continues mismanaging his farm.

When good news about some of these successful children gets home, their father is filled with pride and joy, but when they end up on the wrong side of life, he acts as if he never knew them.

The successful ones make efforts to revamp their childhood home by sending back money and volunteering their skills and time, but all this guy ever wants to do is be a 62-year-old underachieving idiot carried through life by charity and luck.

Famzing” diaspora success is dishonest
I’m sure before the end of the second paragraph, you figured out whose story I was telling. The 62-year story of post-independence Nigeria — which the Hollywood studio would surely reject for being too sad with no redemption — is that of our fictional antihero.

Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world.

Remember how everyone from corporate brands to Abike Dabiri made a big song and dance about supporting Anthony Joshua the “Nigerian,” whose only chance to become someone in life came when his parents emigrated from Nigeria?

Remember how things turned when he somehow lost against that chubby Mexican dude whose name I can’t remember? Remember when the Super Falcons won the female AFCON title and received a congratulatory tweet from the president, only for them to have to stage a protest before being paid their camp allowances?

That’s what we do in Nigeria. We try to live vicariously through the achievements of people who have achieved great things under their own steam, simply because said people happen to be called ‘Ifeoma,’ ‘Efe’ and ‘Ayotunde.’

Even when Nigeria had absolutely nothing to do with said success, or in fact happened in spite of Nigeria, as with Divine Oduduru, we bask in the reflected glory of their personal achievements.

Sometimes when those people wear a Nigerian flag or post something about Wizkid or Jollof Rice on Instagram, we go crazy with the Nigerian flag emojis because oh my god, they identify with us!

This is not about being a Killjoy
Somehow, the complete failure of Nigeria and our complicity in its failure is more bearable when we point at Nigerian immigrants doing great things in life and say “I knew Femi before he started calling himself Anthony.

His father and I were classmates in Aiyetoro.” It is unclear how exactly this helps our situation but hey, it’s also unclear how chugging the amount of alcohol we do helps either.

Escapism is a key part of our culture, and anyone who dissents must be a non-Jollof-eating, vegetarian heretic, and possibly also an atheist.

Now while all this is painfully cringey to my eyes, some will also point out that Nigeria is not the only country that has a weird obsession with its diaspora population.

Even ‘first-world’ countries like Ireland continue to have deep emotional and economic connections to their diaspora, and in any case Nigerians proudly supporting Anthony Joshua or the NBA’s Giannis Ante…African-sounding-name is basically harmless fun. They’re not hurting anyone. Why be such a killjoy, David?

The reason this matters can be found in a quote that has been dubiously attributed to Russian President Vladmir Putin, where he describes Africa as the place where its diaspora does not invest in, but returns to only to die and be buried with their ancestors.

While there is no concrete evidence that Mr. Putin ever actually made that comment, the truth in it is painfully poignant.

For diaspora success to be meaningful to Nigeria, it must correlate to on-ground results in Nigeria. The example of Somalia shows that having a well-educated, globally successful diaspora while being an absolute basket case are both possible at the same time.

I’d imagine we do not aspire to be Somalia.

dominique:
It's good the way Arteta replaced Saka with Madueke as the 2nd half began, we not to keep our star boy fit and fresh for the remaining matches. I hope they get a suitable Declan rice replacement

At least we found out today why Gabriel Jesus and Madueke dey chop bench.
Only Skelly showed he deserves a start in the 11.
Zubi entered and everything just slowed down. Chai.

Ezmans:
west ham is arsenal problem

By the time we play West Ham we are already through to our 2nd time reaching champions league final in history by God's grace and that's the motivation we are going to use to destroy West Ham ..kindly watch out for rice.

geoworldedu:
That's how we waited for Elephant to crumble and it happened when Bournemouth and City arsewiped Elephant, only for PGMOL to start favouring Arsenal by letting Arsenal play two games before City to put pressure on City, but no lele. We've been here before.

Hahaha 😂, you closet lovers of Arsenal though. Now, una wan begin dey drag PGMOL too...lol

When we eventually win the EPL, una mind no go ever touch ground walahi.

Ezmans:
west ham is arsenal problem

Arsenal will thrash West Ham, we need this EPL title more than West Ham's PL survival.

Doyou2019:
Everton will make City drop points on Monday. Y'all can take that to the bank.

A draw in that game between Everton Vs City will be a massive boast for Arsenal going into the Semifinal clash against ATM.

omooba969:
Hahaha 😂, you closet lovers of Arsenal though. Now, una wan begin dey drag PGMOL too...lol

When we eventually win the EPL, una mind no go ever touch ground walahi.

Even if Una win EPL, plenty stuffs dey to taunt una

Champions league ----
Europa League -----
Conference league -----
Super Cup ------
Club World Cup ------

geoworldedu:
That's how we waited for Elephant to crumble and it happened when Bournemouth and City arsewiped Elephant, only for PGMOL to start favouring Arsenal by letting Arsenal play two games before City to put pressure on City, but no lele. We've been here before.

Ogbeni,you go explain tire o.😂

DarkJeddi:
Ogbeni,you go explain tire o.😂

No be Una first make me sabi wetin den dey call PGMOL ?

Bukola94:
NB: Not only win, they should try and be winning by three to four goals. City will win all their remaining games too with load of goals. I trust Pep , he will instruct the players to be scoring four to 6goals per match

City's fixtures are way tougher than Arsenal's.