No one could have pre-written the script of what happened Wednesday night. I count myself lucky to be alive to have watched one of the most amazing football matches I have ever seen. History was made when FC Barcelona upturned...
Featured, Football, Sports Development
Television and Sports – like tea and sugar!
Last Thursday night was very historic in the annals of sports development in Nigeria. A television programme set out on an ambitious adventure to do what has never been done before - use a media platform to drive an agenda...
Featured, Football
Barcelona, oh Barcelona, what have you done?
I am yet to wake up from the nightmare of last Tuesday night. A friend called me up on Wednesday morning and asked if the earth was still revolving round the sun. That’s when I knew I was not...
Featured, Football
The travails of Arsene Wenger!
I like him. He talks football with the authority of a person that thoroughly understands the subject. Arsene Wenger may be in trouble – big trouble! Evening has surely started to set for the great French football tactician. In the...
Featured, Football, Sports Development
The Indomitable Lions are back.
Watch out Africa, the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon are back. The team is back, big time, and better. Their victory last Sunday was no fluke. It was well fought for and well earned. They may not have played...
Football, Sports Development
Afcon 2017, Nigeria and World Cup 2018!
Permit me to digress a little! Two things have come to the fore since watching the semi-final match that produced Cameroon. The first is that we can start to glimpse a new course in the Group of Death for the...
Football, Sports Development
Egypt and Cameroon ignite AFCON 2017!
I am writing this on Thursday night, a few minutes after watching The Indomitable Lions shoot down the Black Stars from their mountaintop of illusion. The Ghanaian players will wake up in the morning feeling they have had a nightmare....
Football, General
Kunle Awesu ressurrects!
I hope my Christian friends do not find my choice of the word above offensive or blasphemous. I had a mysterious re-connection with a friend that I last saw some 40 years ago. About a week ago, I opened my...
Featured, Football, Sports Development
A New Year, a new FIFA and a new World Cup!
Things are happening very fast in 2017. Two weeks into the New Year the biggest news in football comes out of Zurich. FIFA finally approved its president, Giovanni Infantino’s proposal to expand the World Cup from 36 countries to 48!...
Football, Sports Development
The World Cup – Africa’s turn again!
One week into 2017 permit me to repeat a story I have told a few times before in several media in the past 13 years. I am doing so again only because I watched an interview on CNN of Gianni...
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