Joebie:
Everyone or most of us understand that formula.. And no one said we lost points from either of those games. However, the tool is out there on Fifa's website, and anyone can use it. e no be like exam when dem say make person no use calculator. So before you calculate and confuse yourself, let's go back to the main point again. You stand by your word abi? Okay, so when will Nigeria be 25th in the World like you earlier said?
We can definitely bookmark your post again..

neighy:
for this I want germany in the final..
Please dont even try begging me
We have to teach Mr Low a lesson
#StraightFace

neighy:
for this I want germany in the final..
Please dont even try begging me
We have to teach Mr Low a lesson
#StraightFace

nelszx:


Seconded
We must teach this Loëw a lesson
We must beat them blue-black

tbaba1234:


I am Nigerian but i also think Morocco is probably the best equipped at the moment...

junnyjake:




Thank you!

It's never 1 + 1 = 2. A lot of other parameters are in play.

We tried explaining to the young man, but he was all high on the excitement of the win. Him bubble go don burst by now.

Had we qualified for those 2 AFCON editions we missed, we'd have had the opportunity to build on our position as 36th (not too sure)

realpoacher:


I repeat and stand by my earlier position. From my calculations deducted from FIFA website, the Algerian and Argentina matches added points to us. Algeria's result was in positive not negative. The reason why we dropped was from the weight of our four year rankings. Our fourth year in particular in this regards. Fifa score you 1 match point for a draw times 2.5 for the competition weight, I wonder where you guys keep bringing the -Ives from in draw matches when in actual sense the -ive we experienced is from our fourth
year dead rankings multiplied by 0.2

kingphilip:
happy birthday thegoodjoe

may this day forward bring forth greater happiness

Loogan:


Happy birthday man, many more years.
One of the things I admire about you is how you go to great lengths to defend our players even in thier bad times, that's shows deep loyalty. I also like your positivity but word of advice try not to go through long arguments or get emotional on peoples opinions, you have to know no matter how right you think you are Nigerians are egoistic and would not always agree with your points because they feel they are as right as you do. Make your point and don't be upset when you are tagged defender of iheanacho, you have a right to your opinion.
When the players you believe in MAKES IT you get to rub it in thier doubters faces. Peace.

bishop88:

Happy birthday thegoodjoe. May the good lord enlarge your coast..more wisdom and increase..

Napoleon55:
i think say thegoodjoe be Yoruba man .
happy birthday to u thegoodjoe,n many more years to come.
is there going to b fish?

ykalhaji:
Happy Born day to the one the only TheGoodJoe. Wishing you prosperity, joy, success, long life and good health. More pimping to your swagger. Please catch some fun today on our behalf.

tbaba1234:
In other news, my wife and i gave birth to a beautiful baby girl yesterday evening. (About Midnight 9ja time) Mum and baby are good. Alhamdulillah.

tbaba1234:
In other news, my wife and i gave birth to a beautiful baby girl yesterday evening. (About Midnight 9ja time) Mum and baby are good. Alhamdulillah.

tbaba1234:
In other news, my wife and i gave birth to a beautiful baby girl yesterday evening. (About Midnight 9ja time) Mum and baby are good. Alhamdulillah.

Icon79:
So I was just thinking last night how a country like Poland (and to some extent Portugal) played and manipulated the FIFA ranking game to find themselves in the pot 1. This something we could discuss here and make some recommendations to the NFF regarding the 2022 World Cup. I mean, Poland has shown that you can game the system and that's not cheating .... it's called gaining a competitive edge

Anyway, let's put on our thinking caps on and come up with ways we can make FIFA ranking work for the Super Eagles going forward.

Mickael2, Junnyjake, Kog45, MetalJigsaw, elyte89, Icon4s, Mujtahida, tbaba1234, Joebie, goodjoe, Taliban, forgiveness, komekn, ChrisKels, Chrismario, kennysville, kingphilip, soetanoreoluwa, safarigirl, chrisooblog, optional1, Napoleon55, realpoacher, jotey, sontoly, Daejoyoung, nelszx, etc.


O pari

goldfish80:


There is no need to adjust my earlier post. This information about our infamous 4-1 victory over Argentina being fixed have been in the public domain for years.
The truth is that proving a game is fixed is difficult, However, a study of betting patterns could actually indicate a game is fixed.
Here's a report from the UK telegraph about the game :

[b] In the same year, Fifa said it was trying to speak to a Niger referee who officiated in a match between Nigeria and Argentina. Nigeria won 4-1, after unusual betting patterns indicated it had been targeted by match-fixers. Nigeria was leading the game 4-0 until Ibrahim Chaibou awarded Argentina a penalty for handball in the eighth minute of injury time.
This was despite the fourth official having indicated just five minutes of extra time were due. Television replays showed the ball had hit a Nigerian player’s shin.
While the score was 4-0, a huge amount of money in the Asian gambling markets had been bet on a fifth goal being scored.
“There had been some crazy moves on the in-running market early in the game,” said Matthew Benham of SmartOdds, an online betting firm.
“With 86 minutes played, the odds for over 4.50 (a fifth goal to be scored) were absolutely insane. The market was effectively saying it was odds against that there would be no more goals.
“It is hard to get an exact figure for how much would have been bet to force that kind of swing, but we are certainly talking hundreds of thousands, possibly more than £1 million.[/b]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/10918404/Football-match-fixing-Referees-guilty-of-fixing-final-scores-in-high-stakes-games.html

As a matter of fact, the Nigerien ref who officiated that match have been suspected of being involved in match fixing in the past. He once awarded 3 controversial penalties in a game...

Mr Chaibou has been involved in controversial games before. He was in charge of a match in Sept when Bahrain beat a fake Togo team 3-0, which is also being investigated for potential match-fixing. The game was organised by Raj Perumal.
In 2010, he awarded three controversial penalties as South Africa beat Guatemala 5-0 in a World Cup warm-up.

I like calling a spade a spade. If it looks like monkey, jumps like monkey, it's definitely a monkey.
Football is not a clean sports after all. If proper investigation should be carried out, the Gabonese ref who awarded the penalty To Algeria must have been compromised by Asian betting cartels.

Remember our friendly game against Scotland? Where Austin Ejide deliberately parried the ball into his net? That's another pointer to match fixing....
the replay is still on youtube

Recall Sam Sodje's testimony on BBC on how betting syndicates compromise African players? Even in world cup games....

As much as we want to gloat that we beat Argentina in the said game, I'm afraid my conscience won't permit me to celebrate such a dirty looking victory.

cc enomakos

Joebie:
Actually 39 caps

Icon79:
So I was just thinking last night how a country like Poland (and to some extent Portugal) played and manipulated the FIFA ranking game to find themselves in the pot 1. This something we could discuss here and make some recommendations to the NFF regarding the 2022 World Cup. I mean, Poland has shown that you can game the system and that's not cheating .... it's called gaining a competitive edge

Anyway, let's put on our thinking caps on and come up with ways we can make FIFA ranking work for the Super Eagles going forward.

Mickael2, Junnyjake, Kog45, MetalJigsaw, elyte89, Icon4s, Mujtahida, tbaba1234, Joebie, goodjoe, Taliban, forgiveness, komekn, ChrisKels, Chrismario, kennysville, kingphilip, soetanoreoluwa, safarigirl, chrisooblog, optional1, Napoleon55, realpoacher, jotey, sontoly, Daejoyoung, nelszx, etc.


O pari

kingphilip:
congratulations to your family sir

may she and the whole family have cause to celebrate successes much more than y'all have ever imagined

TheGoodJoe:


There is growth when competing against those ahead of you. No guarantee Shehu Abdullahi will play regularly for Everton but what is sure is that he will improve training with Liverpool more than Everton. In turn becoming a better and more important player.

Icon4s:


Thank you. We didn't even make the last 2 editions of the AFCON. The rankings are done over a 4 year period not just 2017.

tbaba1234:


Thank you sir..

Kakamorufu:
I saw these designs on twitter. Wish we can get Nike to make these.