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barackohandso:
Why this thread come dry na? It's only half time

we are loosing and you want an active thread?

Titto93:
Mr. Buhari turned the nation into a slave plantation, and forbade the
slaves from any discussion of their enslavement—especially a return to
democracy. He favored the north over the south, dividing rather than
unifying Nigeria after the convulsions of the 1967-70 Biafran War. He
lent support to the introduction of Sharia law in the North—a major
source of strife and disharmony.
Mr. Buhari’s brutal military dictatorship was overthrown in 1985. Mr.
Dasuki played a key role. Dictators do not forget. Fast forward to today.
After celebrating fairness, due process, and the rule of law last July to
win the good will of the United States, Mr. Buhari returned to Nigeria to
mock all three in a vendetta against the Dasuki, the immediate past
National Security Adviser.
He placed Mr. Dasuki under house arrest. He confiscated his passport.
He charged him with firearms and money laundering violations. He
sought a secret trial to prevent independent scrutiny.
He opposed Mr. Dasuki’s pretrial application to the Federal High Court
sitting in Abuja for permission to receive urgent medical treatment for
cancer in London, but it was nonetheless granted.
Justice Adeniyi Ademola explained that an accused is presumed innocent
before trial, and that a citizen’s health is paramount before the law. Mr.
Buhari was ordered to release Mr. Dasuki’s international passport.
Mr. Buhari defied the order. He put Mr. Dasuki’s house under siege, a
microcosm of the Bosnian Serb siege of Sarajevo. Mr. Dasuki returned to
court. Justice Ademola reaffirmed his order, asserting “My own orders
will not be flouted.”
Mr. Buhari has not yet budged. As a military dictator in 1985, he
similarly seized the international passport of Chief Obafemi Awolowo to
thwart his travel for medical treatment, which caused his death in 1987.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Much is riding on Mr. Dasuki’s case. If Mr. Buhari flouts Justice
Ademola’s order with impunity, judicial independence will be fatally
compromised and Nigeria’s embryonic democratic dispensation will be
stillborn. The judiciary is the only branch capable of checking limitless
executive power—the bane of Africa.
Members of Nigeria’s National Assembly and Senate have been reduced
to playing the roles of extras in cinematic extravaganzas.
Further, President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration accepted a
peaceful transfer of power to President Buhari, a laudable landmark in
African politics. If Mr. Buhari is permitted with impunity to destroy his
political opponents like Mr. Dasuki with tyrannical methods, peaceful
transfers of power everywhere on the Continent will become problematic.
The incumbents’ risk of political and personal impalement at the hands
of their would-be successors will be too high.
The United States should be insisting on independent human rights
observers to monitor Mr. Dasuki’s prosecution and trial, and demanding
that Mr. Buhari honor his vow to follow due process and the rule of law.
The stakes are too high to remain silent.

source:www.gossipmill.com/2015/11/revealed-how-buhari-killed-awolowo-in-1987-washington-times/

you had to change it to a gossip mill link.
shows how desperate you are

Titto93:
source: www.m.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/18/bruce-fein-nigerian-president-buhari-dupes-us/

see link masking?
smh for liers like you

prinzfavian:
Real madrid 1 - 3 Barcelona.

scantee:
Barca all the way! With or without messi we must knack madrid akpako

for record purposes.

Griffon:
Guys who's fit to play Barca and who's not?

I'm going for a Madrid win but I wish to know first how enhanced my chances are.

if you are inquiring based on bettingchances.
its anybodies game

sorry cant help

scantee:
Dry thread. Usbcable how u de bro longest time

thank you.

RuuDie:
James is just recovered from injury.

where u dey alll these dayz

CFCfan:
GOAL!!!
Osimhen

Finally

We play Sevilla tonight.
No Navas
No Marcelo
Lets go there

^^^
get a life will you.
many folks except juveniles still ruminate over such talks.
camps have long been made. those supporting messi see no reason jumping the fence likewise those supporting CR.

In the mean time;

https://33.media.tumblr.com/f3e4e6ef4661de1155148ff42d151646/tumblr_nm4770vbYg1un9jt0o2_500.gif

I dedicate the above to peps that reason normally Barca folks inclusive. why bicker over 22 millionares running round the pitch for 1 and half hours.
@above take note

barackohandso:
Ehn! Ghen Ghen!!! Somebody iyaf vex

on the contrary am just amazed as to how much he posts about CR.
I hardly see him post same amount of info about messi.
Its like a Jew knowing more of the bible than the Talmud itself.
Or a Christian reading more of the Quran than the Bible.

Mr Alade and My Maths teacher.
Seeing them alone makes you run like crazy

bykebyke:
This is in his head only please.

seems you have no job than to stalk the guy.
I bet you know less about Messi than you know more about CR.
yet you shout to the heavens that Messi is your hero.

Get a life or go learn more of your hero and stop chasing shadows around someone who dont know you exist.

[size=20pt]Cristiano Ronaldo film captures giant ego and strange, lonely world of being CR7[/size]

s a snapshot of what life must be like for Cristiano Ronaldo, there is one clip in the new film Ronaldo when his godson is being baptised and there is a small gathering around the font. The baby’s head has just been wet when the priest looks over to the tanned guy with the gelled hair and whips out a mobile phone. “Any chance of a quick selfie?” he wants to know.

Then there is the moment Portugal’s team are training at Estádio Moisés Lucarelli in São Paulo during the last World Cup and a sobbing girl breaks the cordon to run across the pitch in a desperate attempt to reach her hero. She is shaking, crying, close to hysteria and caught by one of the security guards. It is The Beatles at Shea Stadium all over again. Ronaldo hugs her and she looks as if she might pass out. “He knows I exist,” she wails, when a television reporter stops her a few moments later. What did he say? “He asked me to stay calm and stop crying.” And what did you say back? “I asked him to follow me on Twitter.”

It must be suffocating at times even if, for the most part, Ronaldo gives the impression that fame is his comfort blanket. The film is a remarkable vanity project and, even more than before, it is difficult not to come away with the feeling that Ronaldo must shout his own name during sex. He and his agent, Jorge Mendes, appear to have a relationship of mutual worship. Mendes, Ronaldo says, is “the best, the Cristiano Ronaldo of agents” and it is difficult to keep count of the number of times they get lost in each other’s eyes, reminding one another of their success and wealth and shiny brilliance.

Mendes – sharp black suit, Rolex, phone almost permanently to his ear – seems almost as hung up about Ronaldo winning the Ballon d’Or as CR7 himself. It is a 24-7, twitching obsession, on both their parts, given far more relevance throughout the film than Real Madrid’s Décima or anything else, and it is a telling moment when Mendes and one of his associates can be heard muttering darkly from one of the Bernabéu’s executive boxes about the possibility “the other guy might destroy everything”.

That other guy is Lionel Messi, cast in a slightly villainous Ivan Drago-style role that he probably does not deserve. “It’s a card inside an envelope that can change so much,” Ronaldo says of the Ballon d’Or, describing what it is like being expected to fake a smile on behalf of his old adversary. “To see Messi win four in a row was difficult for me. After he won the second and third I thought to myself: ‘I’m not coming here again.’” Watching this film, it becomes clear just how difficult it must be for Gareth Bale, signing for Madrid as the most expensive player in history, to deal with that planet-sized ego.

Other scenes are strategically laced with soft-focus Hello! magazine-style moments where Ronaldo can be seen playing with his son, Cristiano Jr, or dropping him off at school, but there is not always a great deal of charm elsewhere. Muhammad Ali and Brian Clough had great humour to go with all the braggadocio. Ronaldo’s style is not so attractive. “I’m not going to lie to you,” he says, explaining why he went to the World Cup with an injury. “If we had two or three Cristiano Ronaldos in the team I would feel more comfortable. But we don’t.”

A touch of humility every now and then would make Ronaldo much more appealing. Equally, he is as good as he is because of the way he is and a documentary of this nature, filmed over 14 months in his company, does show the enormous strains that come with the territory.

At one point his mother, Dolores, is filmed inside a chemist’s handing in a prescription for sedatives because she can barely take the stress of watching him play. Ronaldo rings and asks if she has taken her tranquillisers yet, as if he is quite used to it. “Its quite complicated to be the mother of a player who needs to win,” Dolores explains. “I suffer a lot.” When he is playing in the World Cup she asks for her flip-flops and then walks up the hill rather than watch with the rest of the family.
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It is this insight into the inner circle that reminds us it has not been straightforward for Ronaldo, and not just because of the fact he left his family in Madeira at the age of 12 to join Sporting Lisbon, with his first pimples on his forehead and braces on his teeth. Hugo, his older brother, now runs Museu CR7, the Ronaldo museum, in Funchal but, at 20, was spiralling into alcoholism. Hugo says it could have been him who played football. Instead, he worked in construction, and he says everyone drank in that game, particularly as he was used to seeing his father, Dinis, knocking it back every night. It isn’t in the film but Dinis and Hugo resorted to selling Ronaldo’s Manchester United shirts so they could pay for more booze.

Dinis, we learn, was never the same after being called up to fight in the Portuguese colonial war in Angola. He came back “very angry”, Dolores explains. His head was filled with images of the war and though she says he always cared for his children she also says she became “his victim”. Dinis drank himself into an early grave, dying in 2005 when Ronaldo was 19. “He was drunk nearly every day and when that happens it became hard to have a conversation,” his younger son recalls. “I didn’t get to know my father for real.”

As for Cristiano Jr, possibly the star of the film, Ronaldo explains that he always wanted “my successor” without going into any other details. His son is five, already doing sit-ups and still working on his pronunciation of “Lamborghini”, and Dolores takes care of him while Ronaldo is away. The mother? It’s anyone’s guess. “People speculate that it was with this girl or the other or a surrogate mother,” Ronaldo says. “I’ve never told anybody and I never will.” How a man in his position has managed to keep it secret is remarkable and, unorthodox as it might be, fair play to him.

These parts are fascinating and, at times, Ronaldo comes across as so lonely it is a good job he enjoys his own company so much. “In football I don’t have a lot of friends. People I really trust? Not many. Most of the time I’m alone. I consider myself an isolated person.” It pains him that his father is not around to see his success but Mendes, he says, is like a father and a brother rolled into one. In Guillem Balagué’s new book about Ronaldo he writes how, to feed the competitive beast, the player’s entourage quickly came to realise “they must keep criticism at a distance, or control it, create the narrative and keep him on his pedestal”. Mendes is always there to fluff that ego and tell him he is better than Messi, and everybody else. It is far more than just the usual player-agent relationship.
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Here, too, is the revelation that there was very nearly no Cristiano Ronaldo either. “He was an unwanted child,” Dolores explains. She considered an abortion and, on a neighbour’s advice, drank boiled black beer before running until she was on the verge of fainting, hoping to force a miscarriage. It didn’t work – and she seems pretty happy about that.

Thirty years on, the film – released on Monday and put together by the people behind Senna – does at least help us understand Ronaldo some more and the incredible drive that is needed to reach the top of his profession. It is not Ronaldo’s talent that stands out the most. It is his competitive courage, his absolute refusal to believe anyone can possibly outdo him and a level of self-obsession that makes one wonder how he will cope now he is approaching the age – two years older than Messi – when the powers gradually start to decline.

In recent years, he says, he and Messi have started talking to one another in a way they never did previously, asking about each other’s families and other polite small-talk. “I’ve started seeing him as a person, not a rival,” he says. “But we are always busting our balls to see who is better.”

[size=15pt] Ronaldo, film review: A revealing and often surprising documentary [/size]

Exec-produced by Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees (the team behind Amy), this is a revealing and often surprising documentary portrait of Portuguese footballing superstar, Cristiano Ronaldo. The film follows Ronaldo through the 2014 season, which ended with him competing while injured at the World Cup, and then into the 2015 season.

The footballer lives like a Roman emperor and has a fleet of expensive cars. His rivalry with Lionel Messi for the Ballon d'Or award is intense in the extreme. At the ceremony itself, both behave like self-obsessed divas. He is sometimes given to speaking in sporting clichés. "Winning – that is the most important to me. It is as simple as that," he declares early on.

However, this is probably the most insightful film about the life of a footballer off the pitch since Vikash Dhorasoo's Substitute. What emerges is the isolation that Ronaldo endures ("most of the time I am alone" and the discipline that he needs to show: not just in training or playing but in dealing with the fans who swarm around him every time he sets foot in public, asking for autographs and photos.

Ronaldo is unashamed about his vanity, describing it as an essential part of his success. Although he allows the cameras full access to his home in Madrid, which he shares with his young son, he is very guarded about his relationship with his alcoholic father, who died a decade ago but whose portrait hangs prominently in his sitting room. He won't reveal the identity of his son's mother, either.

His own mother is in awe of him but that doesn't stop her from revealing that he was an unwanted child. The sportsman, who left his home in Madeira aged 12 to pursue the dream of becoming a footballer in Lisbon, makes it clear that his wealth and status didn't come without considerable personal cost.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/ronaldo-film-review-a-revealing-and-often-surprising-documentary-a6723436.html

pelvicky:
PSG home and away.... celta Vigo.....sevila....Barcelona


Madrid in soup!!!!!

you were saying?

scantee:
Useless cavani

shizzy7:
[b] NIGERIA 3- BRAZIL O condo.....
Yeah, Nigeria understood their tactics..

yu beat me to it.

I was looking for his post ear;ie to quote him.

Understanding the tactics with no purpose for goal.

Nellybii:
Congratulations to all soccer loving Nigerians.
Between, your moniker got me cracking. What about USB port lol

dunno if there is any usbport in NL.

safarigirl:
my purpose on this thread is to counter arguments by these mofos. Na wetin I dey always come here come do.

some people think the rest of us are like them, they're stuck in 2007 and they must be redirected to 2015

they prefer to believe the lies or they just like the world of delusional mentality.
just because they are old dont mean everybody (our players) lies like they did

Nellybii:
have you watched their matches?
Mention any club where anyone of them plays? You are a typical African. Self defeatism is in the gene. These boys are real under 17 just like the Iheanacho group. One of them is my cousin. His father is not yet 43. So please stop saying what you don't know so that God won't punish you.

we are used to being told lies so when someone says the truth nobody believes him

cornel00:
up eaglets its 3 now,meanwhile one hausa idiot beside me is complaining that igbos dominate the u17 team

tell him he is a confirmed idiot

Adikam:
Note:this is not a fiction nor joke.

In the beggining of july i woke-up one morning & say is this going to happen?.cos my dreams sometimes come to pass.

i told my dad a chelsea fan that they did'not win any 3 of thier opening matches it was 2 draws & loosing 1 he laugh &said its one of those nightmares.

In the dream
chelsea finished 8th in league possition & scores a total of 43 goals mostly from defenders & midfielders.

Falcao only manage to score 2 league goals.diego costa recieve a straight red card &later was giving 4 match ban.Abramovich threaten to sack mourinho after arsenal thrash them in that dream...

Then he(mourinho)later won 3 straight matches & was in 5th possition bt after that he recall 2 laon players in january but chelsea continue to fall.

mourinho later sack assistant coach in febuary & apoint someone.he later had an open interview & said that the damage has been done if the owner want him to live he will acept it & move to french giant.

Note:am not wishing cfc bad season but seing them in 16th possition shows it might come to pass.

for posterity sake I will do the quoting so you dont change it in future.

bykebyke:
Food For Thought

hopefuly one day you don't die when Ronaldo finally retires from football.

you nowadays do nothing other than fantasize and romanticize about Ronaldo.

klexycole:
What Did You Mean By UNDERSTANDING OF THE GAME
They Are World No1 Doesn't Mean They Understand The Game More Than Us,We Keep Improving With Every Match We Play.However, Coach Amunike Understands The Game Better Than The Boys And He Will Do Everything To Make The Boys Do The Right Thing.Just Fold Your Arms And Watch Us Do The Magic Once More.

Instead Of Criticizing, Why Not Support Them??
It Pays!

MY BLOOD IS GREEN...YOURS??

he doesn't have one

thats why he is pessimistic and negative

pelvicky:
it shall not be well with did las Palmas stupid defence

Olopa ewo nti epe

ViVaMadrid:
I think kroos should rest even marcelo... We need another LB becos Arbeloa and Nacho are useless, i will rather play Rafa Benitez as LB than play Arbeloa

marceloa has no replacement.
Arbeloa is useless sorry worse than useless at the moment

A full week without a Champions League game or any international friendlies seemed a great chance for Los Blancos to recover some of their injured players, but once again Rafa Benítez will have to work hard to choose a good lineup to face Las Palmas. Keylor the Panther Navas has been left out of the squad list because of soreness, and Sergio Ramos, who featured in Balaídos last week, will not play in order to avoid unnecessary risks.

But the current leaders in La Liga must not make excuses and get a victory tomorrow to keep the leadership before receiving Paris Saint-Germain in a fate-defining game in the Champions League. Pepe is back and Kovacic is fully recovered, and so coach Benítez might even have a chance to rest some of his midfielders in a game that seems, a priori, quite easy for Los Blancos.

That's precisely what it is, a game that Los Blancos must win against a rival that everyone will, probably, wrongly consider to be quite easy. It is true that Las Palmas have only managed to win six points in nine games in La Liga and that they are trying to build a new project under coach Quique Setién after Herrera was fired, but one should also take into account that they put Atlético de Madrid, Barcelona and Celta in trouble. A team with so talented players as Viera, Mesa or, especially, Araújo upfront must be taken into consideration, and Real Madrid's defenders will need to be focused in order not to suffer.

Because if things don't go well and Las Palmas' strikers get their chances, Navas will not be there to save us. Kiko Casilla, who was signed, in theory, to be De Gea's backup, has not had a chance yet to take the starting spot from Keylor and, although tomorrow's game is quite unlikely to make Benítez change his mind, will for sure want to make an impression. Hopefully Real Madrid's strikers will settle the game soon enough and we won't have to see Real Madrid's goalkeeper on screen a lot.
Projected lineups

Real Madrid: Casilla; Danilo, Pepe, Varane, Marcelo; Casemiro, Kroos, Kovacic, Isco; Jesé, Ronaldo.

Las Palmas: Varas; Simón, Bigas, Artiles, Garrido; Vicente, El Zhar, Tana, Mesa, Viera; Araújo.

bykebyke:
Interestingly...The conspiracy is happening already

how?
which match did we win controversially

barcelona has already played at least 7 penalties (your usual argument) while we have played only one.
cant recall barcelona conceeding any while we have conceeded 2 already.

All thanks to The Rock of Gibraltar that saved both penalties

bykebyke:
Ask Diego Simeone

Diego Simeone is not an authority but a party here. Hence another conspiracy

barackohandso:
Still not the answer I'm expecting. Surely you can take a count for just 10 years. It's not hard. For Atleti I know it's 10


Oh you mean political club of the century of course I know the capital of Spain is madrid. anything to stay on top and relevant

waHALA madrid

try winning it first