₦airaland Forum

ritchboy:
Aaron Ramsey is a beast! Good Lord he made Fletcher look like a poor man's Olofinjana
I'm looking forward to seeing Wilshere fit. . . He's 17 yet he's the most naturally gifted player England have.

dayokanu:
Who cares how competitive you are if you cant play CL knockout stages

edoyad:
Man yoo started to become a global power post 99, after Cantona had left and Kenyon (mixed with fate and posh Spice) systematically handled the Becks phenomenon.

About the 4 slots allocated to England in Europe, hope you know that even France with only one CL has 3 slots ? The competitiveness of the league is the deciding factor not the reason you're stating. FIFA are the ones who use that standard in allocating slots to Continents not UEFA.

BinghiNya:
4play nice one. I had highlighted such in the past but people didn't pay any attention.

edoyad:
Dayo, do you know Bundesliga with 18 teams has 3 slots ? How do you explain that if It's not the league's competitiveness ?
If we go by what you guys are saying then France would have only one slot being that they have never really won the tourney.

FBS:
NFA/NFF don't have the balls to fire Amodu 'cos they have to find a reason and except they go radical, we may be stuck with Shaibu.

Under normal circumstances, one would expect the coach that got them through the qualification to take them to the WC but kai with Amodu, we will get thunked. In and OUT!

Guus Hiddink is the man for the job if russia fail to progress.

FBS:
Sauron, I completely agree with you that Amodu ain't no "good" coach and I think I said this earlier.
The problem is Juande Ramos gets fired faster than anything.  Felipe Scolari?  
LvG may be on his way out of naziMunchen!
So you see, yes we need a very good coach with his mind on the job and not just to make money. Someone with Nigeria in his heart! If only we could get Jose M. He has Africa in his blood.  
Question is WHO?

And more importantly, the core of our team should be home based.

edoyad:
You cannot honestly tell me that you believe SAF is primarily responsible for the Success of EPL ?
There're are many more factors that go into the league's success and i'd personally even commend Kenyon above SAF any day if we Zero it down to Man yoo's success alone

FBS:
Youngbest, I also agree with you 100% but from the look of things, none of the TOP coaches/managers are available. Heck, we don't want another Berti Vogts!

edoyad:
FACT : Since Alex Ferguson started coaching in England - Inspite of the so called stars He's introduced to the England squad, they have not reached the Final of any major tournament and are not even a respected footballing side anymore.
So of what use are the so called stars he has brought into the English game ?

mukina2:
Baggy looong time

yesss CIV is going to the World cup

dayokanu:
Looks like Martins has improved since he got to the Bundesliga

dayokanu:
Abeg o. Make Klose no come take Yobo and Nwanerri break World cup goalscoring records

Did we really qualify or is this some form of April fool?

Even though I lost money betting that Tunisia would win I still happy.

They berate and banish Sir Alex Ferguson for a stupid comment about a slightly chubby referee and cravenly ignore all the good the Manchester United manager has done, all the glory he has brought to English football, all the talent he has helped mould for the cause of St George.
So who do you want influencing football? Pen-pushers or Treble-winners?

Ferguson's verdict on Alan Wiley's fitness was undoubtedly insulting and iniquitous. Referees, even those like Wiley slightly lacking sleekness, deserve respect. The alternative is mayhem in the opinion-forming playgrounds of the Premier League and subsequent anarchy in the UK schoolyards.
Those brought up to bow at the altar of "the referee is always right even when he is blatantly wrong'' cannot tolerate Ferguson's stance.

The belittling of officials is a widespread modern curse that needs combating.
Even Fabio Capello ambushed the referee in the tunnel in Dnepropetrovsk, raging about decisions against England, using language that would make Ferguson blush. Did the FA call Capello to account? No chance.

"As the senior statesman Fergie should be setting an example,'' reflected an England supporter. "A lot of young managers look up to him, but any other manager probably would not have been punished so harshly. The FA have got to be more consistent really. Players abuse the officials weekly.'' And escape.

The case against Ferguson lacks perspective.
It is like hounding Barack Obama for double-parking outside the White House. The FA must see the bigger picture with Ferguson.
This is an individual whose managerial feats have been worth tens of millions of pounds to his rivals, raising the Premier League's coefficient to permit a fourth side into the Champions League.

At the risk of straying further into Monty Python territory, what has Ferguson ever done for English football? Well, this is a leader of men who has built on David Moyes's fine work at Everton to nurture Wayne Rooney into England's one saving grace.
This is the club boss who could supply more than half of England's starting XI in Ben Foster, Wes Brown, Rio Ferdinand, Michael Carrick, Owen Hargreaves and Rooney, let alone cultivating Ravel Morrison as a potential gem for 2014.

Better than Kieran Gibbs and Jack Wilshere, certainly up there with Jack Rodwell, if Morrison does emerge as the pre-eminent English footballer of his generation, it will be because of a certain Scot's shrewd guidance.
I can't remember the last time the FA acknowledged Ferguson's role in shaping England's present or future.

Crassly imitating a scene from Swift, Lilliputian no-names attempt to bring down a giant of the game. The cast of pygmies includes Alan Leighton, a rep from referees' union Prospect, an unknown organisation in football until its pushy principal began piggybacking on Ferguson's fame.
Apparently, Prospect represents referees. So Leighton will know that Ferguson was the first manager to inquire after Mark Halsey's health.

It is the inconsistency of individuals such as Leighton that is particularly galling. Ferguson makes a mistake and gets pilloried.
Leighton's members make shocking errors, ignoring beach-balls and bad challenges, yet the Prospect chief stays silent.
The FA seems to have been swayed by a union man stamping his feet and spouting off on the airwaves. Football would be better place if a wise owl such as Ferguson, for all his acerbic outbursts, was advising the FA and its hordes of amateurs on how to run the game.

In a land where many FA types just worry about guaranteeing their free tickets to Wembley every year, Ferguson plots how to take his team there again and again. Ferguson contributes so much to the game that the FA fails to note.
England's most important player, Rooney, rallied to his manager's defence yesterday, detailing why Ferguson should be cherished.
"First of all the trophies he's won,'' began Rooney, "and the type of football he wants you to play – attacking football all the time.
Sometimes you feel you can't do it but he keeps you going. At his age [67], he still wants to win all the time. That's incredible to see.''

Ferguson should show more respect to referees – and football should show more respect to Ferguson.

benlay:
i said it that cynics would celebrate more. Congrats to all Nigerians that believed that we would make it and to others, stay with your own next time

No2Atheism:
na the referee make nigeria qualify . . . if i was the tunisians i would investigate the referee.

the referee did everything humanly possible to make those men score . . .

otokx:
AMODU should be left alone to finish what he has started

FBS:
hehehe    . LOLLLLLLL I love this country and simply refused to give up. Hey, it's footie.
The second half got my heart pumping at a dangerous 4000km/h. Even at 2-2, I knew it wasn't over!

Looks like Amodu got the message from AF.  

Damn, it will be party ALL OVER NAIJA TONIGHT!

Sweet T:
Our second goal was not off side, the ball bounced off the bar and it was active btw Nigerians and Kenyans.

dayokanu:
This is a bad dream, Soon I would wake up to the reality but Lemme enjoy the dream why it last

I pinch myself and it hurts.


Someone tell me I am not dreaming. Nigeria qualifies??

           

skynylaw:
OUR SECOND GOAL WAS ROBING,  thaz off side

FBS:
A bleeding cracking nerve shredding second half performance!

Obagoal proved he still got it.

Mikel played one of his best matches (if not the best) for the SE today.

Osaze. . .did he thing and deserves to go the SA 2010.

The rest . . .well, sha, they tried. They team played "better" in the second half.

To all those who believed even when the chips were down, I say Congrats.

To those, who . . .well  you know yourselves. I have nothing to say to you.  

SA 2010! Here we come.

Krayola:
NAIJA HAS QUALIFIED!!!!  

Congrats everyone!! Hope we have a good showing in SA!!  Na to go buy ticket  

buffead:
goallllllllllllllllllll

rasputinn:
@ Sharon

Don't embark on any killing spree(except of course your targets will be those crooks at the NFA/NFF)

FBS:
Sauron, wetin AF talk?    

Krayola:
Oya all una mountain of fire people abeg make una start to dey bind and loose and destroy. . . we need all the fire we can get in that 2nd half. This one don pass TB Joshua power  

FBS:
Are we playing with 9 men?  

FBS:
Patriotism is contagious!  

By the way, what formation are we playing?

debosky:
Apart from Odemwingie, the rest of the Nigerian attack is useless.

PS - there's no midfield either!

Oh - Yobo almost concedes a penalty by shoving the Kenyan off the ball.

azeeza:
@sauron
TB Joshua says you will go to South Africa next summer.

is it with the way they are playing now?

honeric01:
no goal!!!

Krayola:
If we win and Tunisia draws do we qualify?

scantee:
good odewinge

buffead:
dere is no tension in da game at all ,  dis is disgracefull

Krayola:
hhahah See as Kenya dey use naija do display