Category: Football

This is the closing chapter of my 2018 World Cup report. It encapsulates my unique experience. As is wont every 4 years I look at the World Cup through a special lens, the product of all my years covering the...

By the time you are reading this, I shall be in Russia. For the next month, every other activity on the planet shall be put on temporary hold. Meanwhile, last Thursday night, on the very first day of the world’s...

The ‘Chief Justice’ of Nigerian football, distinguished legal luminary and Member of the Order of the Niger, Chief Adokie Amiesimaka, was the one who called me up and reminded me it was 38 years to the day on March 22...

At the start, I did not like him at all. And I was not alone that did not like his face in Ibadan in those days in the 1970s when I first met him. Indeed, a whole army of supporters...

(This conversation took place some 24 years ago. It was never published in print. Rashidi returned forcefully into my life last week in a most bizarre circumstance. I believe he wanted his memory to be kept alive. Hence this, transcribed...