Category: Football

I shall be in Ibadan next week. Why should that be news? Well, it really should not be, but it is. Going to Ibadan, for me, has become a burden of some sort. For what I did in Ibadan, for...

Had I known that he shared the same birthday as one of the greatest football players in the history of the game, I would not have been wondering for years about where Rashidi got his prodigious goal-scoring ability from. How...

Which secondary school has produced the highest number of players for the Green/Super Eagles in Nigeria’s history?  This is a Million-Dollar poser that I have been trying to solve in the past 48 hours. The process has been an experience I must...

This is fŕom 1967 or 1968. St. Murumba College, Jos. My class constituted all of the school's first XI football team. How did that happen?

I am tired of the endless lamentation. I would not have touched the subject again had Osasu Obayiuwana not called me up from his holiday in California, two days ago, to rant and rave about the state of Nigerian football...

Hello Mathematical7.com readers, The second international windows break is here and our focus will switch from European club action to European Championship (Euro 2020) qualifying series.

I have never found it more difficult to write about football in all the years of my writing than I do now. Suddenly, after so many decades of living in denial and in hope, I am about to give up...