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pharod:
I am left footed and I was left handed when I was very young but my parents flogged and punished me until I started using my right hand for stuff. Now I'm ambidextrous.
As an "80s kid, it used to be one of my favorite games. Anybody born around then or early 90s must have played the cashew game. Except those that were locked up inside...

I play that cashew game die

pamcode:
Lol @ bolded. My Parents were liberal about the handedness thing. They made me feel special, at a time I assumed I was the only one left handed in the world until I read about it. It is always euphoric when I meet a leftie, even till now I can count on both hands the number of lefties I have met.

I grew up believing that left handed people are more intelligent than right handed ones...

And with my left hand, I can hit the bulls eye from any distance ..... I use to be a terror in cashew nut games. My peers then always avoid me like plague when it comes to cashew nut games because I dey always chop them finish..lol. Who played those games here?

iamoyindamola:
Yeah people discriminate alot, you will see elders telling you not to give them something with your left
In school, those religion fanatics will tell me only devil eat with the left hand and some other bullshit, I use right for swallow but left hand for spoon because it's a tool

The look on people's face when they see me eating with left ehhh.... Especially older people.

The thing dey make me feel highly uncomfortable to eat in public.

@bolded.... That has been our culture in this part of the world. It's disrespectful to give an older person something with left hand. Even though I'm a leftie, I don't try that: to give someone something with left hand.

Just like oyibo pikin fit call him papa by his first name. But here, who born you to call your papa 'John'

Na just culture.

afrodoc2:
No they are not. Already MichaelBukamzy and Chrisus have told Ibime that they are also left footed and right handed.

Go through all the left footed players you know and check their pics signing autographs or contracts you will see that more than half are right handed.

Finally the findings of research on this support my view. Close to 20% of footballers are left footed but just about 10% of footballers are left handed.
If you consider the fact that some of these left handed footballers are right footed you can easily see that left foot plus left hand combo is a rare combination.

Well I wouldn't argue this view. I haven't made research on it.

That means I'm part of the minority.

afrodoc2:
Your case is actually the norm. There are more right-handed left-footed players than left-handed left footed players.

Diego Maradona
Lionel Messi
Bobby Charlton
Rivelino
Roberto Carlos
Ryan Giggs
Robin Van Persie
Patrick Evra
Ashley Cole
Iker Casillas
David Silva
Adriano.

ALL left-footed and right-handed.

People like Robben, Cech who are both left-footed and left-handed are in the minority.

I am leftie both hand and foot.

I do virtually everything with my left hand. I remember I started learning how to eat with right hand at a young age because of the embarrassment I suffer each time people see me eating with left. But till now, I unconsciously eat with left sometimes...

I'll say people who are both left handed and left footed is the norm.

Roland17:
I think I am more upset about the timing of this news than anything! I mean I know there were conversations about him earlier in the season but to emphasize it now is just wrong! We have had 9 coaches in 6 years! think about that for a second. I don't like this one bit, we are in desperate need of stability with the team and now that we have a little bit of it in Pioli especially with recent results reflecting that stability, we are now looking to move on from Pioli and Maldini. I said this in one of my posts last year I think or early this year, we have made too many transitions in leadership/ coaching and it affected the team on the pitch. Pioli was never my preferred candidate but he has improved the team tremendously, far better than Montella, Giampaolo, Gattuso did.

I thought you are an Arsenal fan.

Ibime:
Funny I'm left footed but right handed. I'm yet to come across anyone with the same characteristics.

Really? I've not seen anyone with same characteristics.

Though I've seen left handed right footer...

BlueMann:
Well, i'm still a young chap so mine is relatively recent.
But I started supporting Chelsea because...


Blue is my favorite colour!

Sounds funny, but its true tho. Then I started watching the team, and i was most impressed with Lampard, Drogba, and Terry. They made me fall in love.

So the colour Blue made me start to follow Chelsea. But those guys made me fall in love.

Funny enough, red is my favorite colour.

sylvalord:
Are you fucking kidding me?

Lol... I don't know how else to explain that role.

donjazet:
Oboi, e don tay you begin watch ball oo.
1996 wey I still dey primary school.
Anyways, as everyone here knows already, na mourinho make me settle on Chelsea.
The mourinho of 2005 was a very different beast to what we have now.
There was something about his charisma and arrogance that rubbed off wrong on the establishment and to top it off, he was immensely successful. That moment the person you hate the most is winning directly in your face.
Another factor was the presence of black & African players in the team. A notable distinction between us and manunited then.

Anyways, when you say "leftie", apart from being left footed, do you also infer it politically?

The bolded is another factor that endeared me to the club more.

And when I say leftie I mean I use my left hand more than my right hand. It has absolutely nothing to do with politics. I am 1000% neutral politically.

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izzou:
[color=royalblue]I think the UCL is a common ground to compare. That's the biggest competition in Europe

Celtic have been carrying their league for the past four seasons. Going by your ideology, Ronny Deila, Brendan Rodgers and Neil Lennon are far far better than Sarri[/color]

Anyhow sha, both of them never lifted UCL so they both are in the same level if UCL is the yardstick.

But Sarri is a Europa winner. So?

sylvalord:
What da fucckk is an out-wide number 10?

He wears number 10 jersey and he plays out wide

seankafor:
I am/was a plastic fan when it comes to club football.

I once supported arsenal before decamping to Bolton and later Newcastle
Those days I take pen and paper to write down player's name and jersey number

But when it comes to national team, am die hard super eagles supporter

The last time I fiercely supported Nigeria team was Atlanta '96. Since that time till now, I watch them passively.

I even support U17 and U21 more nowadays.

OJURONGBE1:
Because both teams qualified to compete at the biggest league in Europe and if one goes all the way to the final, he would rank higher .

No.

There are coaches who went all the way and even won UCL but cannot be named among elite coaches. E.g our own Di Matteo. Also Avram Grant went all the way to the final and was a spot kick away from being a UCL winner. But can you name him as an elite coach?

My point is, compare Sarri and Pochettino in their individual performances in the league where they play week in week out season after season. There is where their philosophy/brand of football will show more.

The discussion started with Sarri being rubbished because of lack of achievement. I was the one who brought Pochettino into the discussion to show that 0 trophy don't make one a failure.

Ibime:
I'm a leftie same as you and settled on Chelsea same year (1997) for the same reason (Babayaro) although I had been leaning toward them that season already due to familiar players like Zola and Gullit. Also my grandad was a Chelsea fan and was asking us who we are going to support, that he supports Chelsea. My brothers picked Liverpool and Arsenal, I threw my hat into Chelsea the minute Babayaro signing was announced.

Wow!

See as goosebumps dey run through my body as I'm reading this.

My brother supports AC Milan. My mum was a Super Eagle supporter but diehard George Weah fan.

OJURONGBE1:
Good point but here's the thing Poch against all odds took Tottenham hotspurs to the champions league final and that feat deserves a lot of credit .
His team overturned defeat to Ajax and beat Manchester city on their way.
I don't think SS Napoli made it pass the Quarters all through his tenure.

PS : I was a fan of his style of play at Chelsea regardless of those heavy defeats.

Why is UCL a yardstick to compare both coaches? Why will you use a 13 match competition (that is if you make final o) instead of a 38 game league (where you must play all the teams twice) to compare coaches?

popizaino:
There is no way we going to compare league games like that cus napoli in England facing teams totteham has to face will end up behind Everton at best while totteham will do better than napoli in Italy facing the same opponents. So let's use UEFA competitions instead

At napoli's peak under sarri how did they dare compared to totteham?

And how did you come to that conclusion?

If you want to use UCL then look for Napoli vs Tottenham that is Sarri vs Pochettino.

BlueAngel444:
I thought u would have noticed Sarri didn't coach Napoli for 4 seasons, that 18/19 wasn't it last season where Sarri coached Chelsea?

Yea. My mistake. Thanks for the correction.

donjazet:
The person who created this thread on the front page now must have been here yesterday.

https://www.nairaland.com/5971541/why-when-did-start-supporting

I know that In Europe where football is cultural, many football fans support their clubs due to both their locale and most times heritage. But for us here, there must have been some unique reasons why we chose to support our club over others.

Ibime, timbros, hensben, nihilist, larride, blueraydick etc. What was your major reason for supporting Chelsea?

Celestine Babayaro.

I am a "leftie" (and left footed when playing ball) so I have this natural love for left footed players...

In Atlanta '96 my best player was Celestine Babayaro. And when, a year after our Dream Team victory, Chelsea signed Babayaro, I just start following the club.

Although in that late 90s, we don't have DSTV or other cable TV to follow premiership week in week out like today, I have this big bros that don't miss any edition of 'Complete Football International' and 'International Soccer Review' full colour glossy magazines. That is where I get all my updates and happenings in the world of football. NTA then have a program every Saturday evening "Weekend Sports".... I don't miss it for anything.

That was how my support for Chelsea started until gradually we started watching games live in big hotels that have cable TV...

OJURONGBE1:
I don't think he's biased .His comment was from an informed position.
How would you compare Pochettino to Sarri ?
Do you know what it takes to get to the final of the UEFA Champions league?
His team gave Leicester and Chelsea a good run towards the league championship in 2015 and 2016 with the array of young players he had at his disposal.
That's not a small feat.

Didn't Napoli give Juventus a good run all the 4 years Sarri spent there? If not that Juventus is in a class of their own in Italy, Napoli would have won at least one Serie A.

Pochettino in Tottenham....

14/15 season 5th
15/16 season 3rd
16/17 season 2nd
17/18 season 3rd
18/19 season 4th

Sarri in Napoli...

15/16 season 2nd
16/17 season 3rd
17/18 season 2nd
18/19 season 2nd

Please which of the two coaches did better?

No other team won the Serie A with Sarri in charge of Napoli, bar Juventus. And we know that Juventus are in the class of their own in Italy.

Don't rubbish someone because, maybe, you don't like his brand of football.

Edit: Sarri left Napoli 2018. He coached 3 seasons there actually.

popizaino:
I don't know how you rate coaches with teams but I rate coaches with their teams performance in big intensed games. losing to small teams for most big managers are expectional rather than the norm.so on this totteham faired better under pochettino than napoli did under sarri.

The last ucl madrid won only pochettino was able to beat them in 90mins.

What is your definition of big intense games? Let's start from there. Then we can compare Sarri's big intense games in Italy vs Pochettino's big intense games in England.

Greatihex:
where did you read from my post that goals are not important?

You are the one downgrading the importance of a good midfield and defense because you want to push the agenda of the ones who score the goals and those that got assists are they most important people in the team. That is what I'm trying to correct.

Let for people like you, Kante wouldn't have been recognised as our best player in 2017 title win, because he does not have any goals and assists that win titles according to you.

Salah scored 32 goals in 2018 yet he could not deliver a spoon for Liverpool, but you us to believe that some who scored 20 goals and another with 12 assist delivered a title.

See yourself nah.

I don tell you. Make una no dey use bogus terms for here.

Lion share. Na so both Salah and Mane take 22 goals last season with many lion share (according to you) yet nothing to show for it.

Make una no dey overhype this goal something for here.
Clean sheets/less goals conceded per match play as much role as goals in a title win.

OK.

Greatihex:
oh, it's now about the wins and no longer about goals and assists that Costa and Fabregas used to deliver the league?

Watch this.
0-0 is 1 point, but

3-4 is 0 point.

Oga, calm down.

Stop sounding ridiculous...

So more goals only end up in losing? You conviniently typed 3-4 forgetting 5-4, 7-6, 4-3 etc.... Abi.

If goals isn't important, I wonder how the wins will come about.

Fabregas and Costa delivered EPL to us doesn't mean that others were useless. It only means that their goals and assists played a major role (you can call it lion share) that season.

popizaino:
Tottenham were punching above their weight under poch its no brainer they were minutes away from lifting the league in 15/16 and making the UCL finals in 18/19 but Napoli was just there under sarri.

In the 4 years that Sarri spent in Napoli, he consistently came second in the league. Only once he came third.

This is Serie A that has the two Milan clubs and Roma, Lazio etc...

Only Juventus (And Roma once) top Sarri all through his stay in Napoli.

Are you telling me that Napoli was not punching above their weight?

Please stop being biased just to push your agenda going. Napoli (under Sarri) is in Italy what Tottenham (under Pochettino) is in England.

And what do you mean by the bolded in your comment? Tell me you were just joking... Which one is that they were minutes from lifting the league? Is it the league Leicester gave them 9 clear points? The league Tottenham finished third behind Arsenal? Which kind of ridiculous line did you type there?

donjazet:
The kind of news one comes across sometimes is quite dumb founding and stomach churning.
Just look at this.

https://www.nairaland.com/5971653/how-man-died-decayed-room

The story and accompanying picture doesn't match at all.

Greatihex:
goals win matches. Winning bring trophies. How many goals have City scored this season?

Oga, stop using bogus irritating words.

With how many wins?

If you don't score goals, how will you win a match? If you don't win matches, how will you win leagues?

Go and play conservative 0-0s and see where it will take you.

popizaino:
Mauricio pochettino is never a failure.just saying

Poch 0 trophy for Spurs...... Not a failure.

Sarri 0 trophies for Napoli... But you are pointing to his lack of achievements to drive home your point.

popizaino:
Tell us his achievement s with Napoli that he had all the time in the world to fully implement his style with ?

Is this fair?

Greatihex:
The way many of you people here use this word in terms of trophies annoys me.

What do you mean?

Na from bench Fabregas dey deliver trophy?


Where were Kante, Luiz, Hazard etc when Costa and Fabregas were delivering this trophy?

If you like interpret what I said there literally, e consign you.

Goals win matches. Winning bring trophies.

Both times we won EPL with Costa in the team, he was our highest goal scorer. Who assisted majority of his goals? Fabregas.

But, like I said earlier, interpret what I said whichever way you want, e no consign me.

popizaino:
Tell us his achievement s with Napoli that he had all the time in the world to fully implement his style with ?

Is Poch a failure? Just asking...

donjazet:
Many of us here just continue to be swayed by emotions and the typical short term memories that plague football fans.

ohh, today, christensen and zouma are now the better options, because of one game. While still forgetting that this same rudiger has been instrumental to the last 3 trophies we have won. Today, we praise his him, tomorrow we condemn him, just like you are doing right now for zouma and christensen, rather than clamour for a sustained stabilized partnership in our defense.

See how you guys are now rubbishing jorginho, the same player that was sought after by many top clubs like madrid and mancity. he was bought because the club keyed into the sarri project but unfortunately did not give the project time to materialize, as usual. Jorginho is a player highly proficient with the ball whose technique was immense. there is a reason guardiola chased after him vociferously. imagine guardiola having jorginho as a player.
Its just very unfortunate we dont have a system that would have best utilized jorginho's skills. he has already shown how immense he could be with a system suited to his ability, with napoli.

For those complaining about hudson, you guys are still easily forgetting how good hudson was with sarri before injuries derailed his progress. he was one of the most promising talent out there and bayern were ready to do anything to get him, he leveraged that situation to get a better deal, who wouldn't? but to start laying abuses at him when he hasnt even gotten enough chances yet to prove himself exposes that impatient mentality that we are famed for. This is exactly the same mistakes we made with KDB, salah, lukaku and other very good players who we have had. that impatience to do away with talented players who have current impediments. hudson is one for the future. save your bile for someone else.

lastly, fabregas might be washed up now due to aging legs,but make no mistake, he was one of the most creative players in europe at his peak.
fabregas and costa were the ultimate players responsible for our league win under mourinho lest you forget. its not fair to him to rubbish such an established player just because he began to dwindle at the twlight of his career.
we need to stop being soo quick and rash in our judgement. many fans are too quick to judge from emotions and that is wrong. enough said.

I wish I can like this post a thousand times.

Watch how fans will crucify this same Zouma tomorrow if he makes a single mistake.

Our impatience as fans here is something else!

Imagine! Fab4/Costa combination that delivered our last EPL trophy... Na the same Fabregas we dey rubbish here now. Na wao.

LegoxMetahuman:
new contract will mean bigger salary

atleast he will be demanding close to what kante is currently earning. collecting that for 3 years even if he doesnt play is a bad business.

could become another ozil situation.

2 years max is enough. if not, he can fhuck off.
he is not consistent anyway.

At his age and family status (he prefers to continue staying in London because of family), he won't push for a bigger salary.

His experience is really needed in a dressing room full of 19-23 year olds. Ziyech can learn a thing or two from him.

If Chelsea can table 2 years for him, what's the big deal in one more year?