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agbola:
Its in moments like these i wonder why i am a real fan

Haaa haa haaa. . . That's the only statement that caught my eyes!

I have a blue shirt for you sweety!

Thank you Initiator. Someone says something positive at last. 

@ Bolaoni

I've been telling him the same thing, but he refused.

Let's leave Jose to his work. He knows what the best formation to use at any given time is. That's what he is paid for.

Oh my dayz. . .

Mukina, why art thou thiefing my picture?

Go and bring your own and leave my picture alone! Haaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Sharaaap! That's my pic! OLE OLE OLE OLE!


Post your own!

I'm still trying to get a picture of the machine. When I do, I'll post it.

Mukina, if I spank that your ass ehn! Picture thief thief!

It's not, he's an ENGLISH player for pete's sake! This is the Prem.

Wormy, Election == Pre-election + Post-election!

Geez Wormy, have some faith in the country now. . .  

Besides, let's trust uncle Yar Adua a bit. Since he declared his assets yesterday, it might be a sign of good things to come.  

Wormy, nawa for you o. It is an 'anti election Rigging' Machine.

Didn't you read the article?

I'm sure there would be provisions for the Press to monitor the results from the Machine. That's if Yar Adua adopts it anyway!

Geez, the guy said 'anti-rigging', so we need to ask him what provisions he has made for that!

Jackal:
Bes' believe it, ANDERSON will light up the Premiership next season!

Noted!

Wormy, I wish I could say I understand your post, but unfortunately, I don't. 

The guy said 'Anti-Rigging' machine. That means rigging won't be possible, so what art thou talking about?

Methinks a machine like this is desperately needed in our electoral system.      I'm sure you'll all agree. 

A Nigerian businessman based in the United Kingdom, Mr. Ben Aghanya, has invented a machine that can prevent election rigging and foster the growth of democracy in Nigeria.

Demonstrating the invention to newsmen in Enugu on Thursday, Aghanya said he designed the machine to prevent a recurrence of the malpractices that characterised the last general election in the country.

According to him, the machine, christened Electro -Mechanical Voting System, relies on internally-connected 12 volts DC power and battery , making it independent of electricity supply.

He explained that EMVS was designed to eliminate the catalogue of problems associated with electoral systems in Nigeria, assuring that the machine could reduce electoral fraud to the barest minimum.

Aghanya, who is the Managing Director of Ajacin Engineering Limited, stated that he was motivated to go into research for the production of the machine by what he described as the anomaly in the nation‘s electoral system.

He said, ” I have taken part in past elections in Nigeria and I have witnessed anomalies but nobody has come out with a solution . I was particularly not happy with the way Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, was rigged out in the state in 2003. ”

Hilighting the attributes of his invention, he said that the machine has a memory which can store evidence of polling exercise for as long as possible, stressing that the essential parts are tamper-proof, a safeguard against the manipulation of evidence.

Aghanya said, ” The EMVS is secure for the following reasons: More than one person is required to control the voting process - minimizing rigging or connivance . All essential system units are locked . The machine has memory which can be stored as evidence as long as possible.”

He called on the Federal Government and the Independent National Electoral Commission to discard the old manual balloting system and adopt the machine, promising to mass produce it locally in order to provide employment for many Nigerians.

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200706293273046

Whatever in the world are you guys talking about?

Make una no fight o! Y'all are supposed to be cracking your ribs!

There is a discussion going on about who is the best manager. Not in names (we all know who that would be) but rather about the managerial qualifications.

It is an interesting thing to ponder upon. Is the manager with a playing career in the background better than the more "nerdy" manager that has no obvious football skills himself?

I do not propose to find a fixed answer, but I do for certain see a very strong trend and shift to a much better manager than yesteryears. A manager that simply put has a greater influence on the game of football. So for this discussion, manager and coach are the same thing. Footballer manager is the guy that played the game on a high level himself, and the non-footballer manager is the one that never reached those levels or proved himself as a footballer.

I believe the difference and the emergence of the non-footballer manager started in Germany. As far as I know, the Germans were the first to introduce football management as a school subject and they require extensive training and schooling of the managers today at University level. Today even UEFA have similar demands and most managers go through several levels of training before becoming certified. This opened up the field for those who loved football but could not play themselves. A new generation of managers.

The tradition, especially in England and Italy, has been for about a hundred years that virtually only ex-footballers ever became managers. Still it is very common and a reason why so many titles have been invented as these managers do not comply with demands for training and education. Technical director is the usual one in Italy when a player gets to be a manager without being certified.

We at Chelsea sure are an example of this. We have had so many footballers as managers that it constitutes almost all of our history. Hollins, Webb, McCreadie, Gullit, Hoddle, Vialli to mention but a few.

With the exception of Vialli few of them left their mark in history. And Vialli was severely impaired when he tried to bench his former playing mates. Even the god Zola is supposed to have objected to him.

In England it is almost a job benefit for the great players to become managers in their clubs as a thank you after they put their boots on the shelf. I will not mention clubs, but one very recently opted to change from a tootballer manager to a non-footballer manager.

I do not want to slag that old tradition, some have turned out decent. But just because one person could kick the ball well, it has nothing to do with being a decent manager. There has not really been a good footballer manager for many years.

The few footballer managers that come through today are better suited for national team duty such as Jürgen Klinsmann. The demands are different for that kind of manager. Others are footballers that hardly were of the greatest talent but had a feeling for the game. Like Phil Scolari, Sir Alex,

Footballers themselves usually hail the footballer manager. In my opinion because that means they will get away with their bad habits of boozing, eating badly, slackIng in practise. Football today is a totally new world than that of 10-15 years ago.

A good footballer is paid 40-100,000 pounds a week. Ten years ago that was a yearly salary. That means that they should not get away with any short cuts. They have to live and breathe Chelsea 47 weeks a year. No gaffs, No Jody Morris, no gambling, no bad habits. We pay for you, we have high demands and for that kind of money our players fecking have to live up to it. There is no more room for players we loved for their attitude, like Best, Gascoigne, Osgood. We pay, you play.

The new managers understand this. The old do not.

That means we have new criteria for managers too. We demand more from them, we give them more credit than before. The old way direct from the playing field to management will probably be extinct in 20 years, even in England.

Managers today make more money. As deserved in some cases

I`d venture to say that the last great footballer manager is Sir Alex Ferguson. And he was not much more than an average player. There might be one or two exceptions to come through.

The future of the manager belongs to those of us that could not play but love and understand the game. In my days it was a no-go to be a manager if you did not play first. But is has now changed. The football lovers, the enthusiasts, the theorists, the thinkers, the ones that are burning to evolve football are coming. And most importantly the ones that understand the psychology of the group.

The José Mourinho`s of this world.

Look around. Who are the best managers in the world. You will all put down some common names.

I dare to put down names like JM, Sir Alex, Ottmar Hitzfeldt, Fabio Capello, Carlo Ancelotti, Roberto Mancini, Phil Scolari, Guus Hiddink, Arsene Wenger, Tubby Benitez, Juande Ramos, Gerard Houllier, Sven Göran Eriksson etc etc.

Notice something? The only one that made much of an impression as a player is Roberto Mancini and he is a bit too fresh to management to be evaluated properly. JM has proven himself over and over again with a no-money team such as Porto as well as with Chelsea. So that discussion is over for everyone, except the ignorant of this world.

The investment in a good manager is much bigger now. It simply can not be the whim of the club owner to hire and fire. To be honest, the manager has evolved to be the most important person in every organisation. Players come and go, but Sir Alex stays. And proves himself over and over again. With Aberdeen, after a slow six year start with United he has done so many times now. And United have proved that staying with a good manager is worth everything, when you find the right one for your club. As will JM when Chelsea has ironed out what the responsibility of the manager and those of the club are. If you get the best you fecking hold on to him. That is how simple it is.

There have been many successfull player managers. Cruyff, Rijkaard, Robson, Zoff, Laudrup - but almost none of them has proven to be good in more than one circumstance that suited them. They have been one-club managers.

Management should not be a reetirement gift to popular players. Our own god Zola has realised that and is very humble about learning the craft of management first. In five years we will know if he is as great as a manager as a player. Not before. And if not, he could always be our technical director. He will always have something to give to football and Chelsea.


http://www.chelsea.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=71280

@ Viee

Sweetie, I'm a secret agent.  

Dason, what about Joe cole and Arjen Robben? 

kitaun:
@Razorr

am not surprised at your renaming this thread after u lamented to me privately that u were in shock

Kitaun, if you tell any other lie about me, I would post your picture in that other thread!   I'm sure you don't know i have your pic!     
I'm an SSS agent sweety!     

Ofcourse. That's what I said yesterday. It would be a dream come true for Drogba.

romeo:
hmm aqui tengo hermanos por dios, como vais chicos?

please Razor no vex, like they said it's the COPA espiritu

Speak Anglais abeg.

Sharrappp! You who's always accusing people of being ugly, let's see your picture as well!

Retracted

I-man, shut up and post your own!