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Grassroots football clubs resume action with Super 8 tournament on the horizon in Delta State

January, and it’s that time of the year when young football players dust their shin guards, clean their boots and hit the road on endurance runs as they look to shake...... Read more Solskjaer makes strong case for permanent Man Utd job; Emery and Ozil playing Mourinho and Pogba

Mauricio Pochettino, the man who Manchester United bigwigs are pining for to take over the managerial job of the Red Devils, came face-to-face against the man in temporary charge of the...... Read more Bendel Insurance resurgence into NPFL, Lobi, Rangers, Super Falcons Friendlies!

You may have read last week’s article on this page on NFF’s purported corruption that is still trending as at the time of piecing this week’s column together. As usual, I...... Read more How Insurance secured long-held promotion dream with young grassroots players who bleed Bendel

“God does not call the qualified, he qualifies the called.” Christian folks like this saying. Arguments about its ethical soundness aside, it simply implies that sometimes the ones thought to be...... Read more NFF’s attempts to recall Victor Moses should be strictly for a testimonial

Reports recently have it that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is making behind the scenes attempts to ‘persuade’ Chelsea’s Victor Moses (who has effectively been estranged from the Blues first team...... Read more Corruption in NFF: Has the bubble finally burst?

Honestly speaking, if what has been trending on the activities of the executive committee board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is true, then it is safe to say again that...... Read more Remembering Slain Uzama as Iduoriyekemwen tasks youths not to be used for violence

It was a beehive of football activities all over the country as grassroots and community football teams held their annual ‘End of Year’ football matches. in Benin City Edo State, a...... Read more Liverpool, Spurs, City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Man Utd: What the big boys need for 2019

Happy new year to you. It’s 2019. Get ready to be used to it now. It’s the time for new year resolutions and everyone makes a resolution that would make him...... Read more Farewell to 2018, Year of Few Achievements and Plenty of Solomon Dalung Blunders

The year 2018 is on its way as history and it witnessed, as usual, the good, the bad and the ugly as sports got its full dose of the battered economy...... Read more Grassroots football coach blasts Pogba for allegedly celebrating Mourinho’s sack, says some of his own players have treated him similarly

Manchester United are back to winning ways with two back-to-back wins in the English Premier League under new manager and former player Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. On Boxing Day United hammered visiting Huddersfield...... Read more Father played with Pele, uncle died in the pitch in Sudan. Teenager John Idahor determined to continue family's football rollercoaster journey in a successful way as he shines in Turkey

Talk of one who is from a thoroughbred football family and 18-year old John Idahor, the Bayrampasa Altintepsispor of Turkey suave attacking midfielder fits the bill. Idahor's playing style has received rave reviews...... Read more AFCON 2019: Thumbs Up for Nigeria / Egypt Proposed Friendly

I have decided to give deaf ears to those armchair critics who of course I have described often on this page as idlers of the first order. If you read us...... Read more Ine Stars win IB Champions Cup

Ine Stars have won the IB Champions Cup competition for top grassroots football clubs. In a pulsating final match played at the Crescent Sports Complex in Benin City, Edo State, on...... Read more Mourinho: The Real Specialist in Failure

Some years ago, former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger responded to a most brutal insult from Jose Mourinho, then Chelsea manager who had labelled him “specialist in failure”, by saying: “I’m embarrassed...... Read more Non-Payment of Super Falcons 2016 Bonuses: Dalung’s Right Revelation, Wrong Audience, Execution

The curtain for very colourless National Sports Festival ever was drawn last weekend with Rivers State emerging as the overall winner of the national Sports summit. If you watched what was...... Read more Ojioma appointed Chairman of Electoral Committee of Nigeria’s players intermediary body

The Football Intermediaries Association of Nigeria (FIAN) has named Chucks Ojioma as the chairman of the electoral Committee for the forthcoming elections into some sensitive positions of the association. The positions...... Read more Sarrismo comes of age in premiership; Benin Warriors downed in IB Cup opening day

Chelsea’s manager Maurismo Sarri celebrated the final whistle of his club’s 2-0 drubbing of high-flying Manchester City in a calm way. No fist pumping, no chest beating and no hand in...... Read more Nigeria’s Women World Cup Group: Dennerby, Falcons on Trial

If you are among the school of thought that believes the entire hen is home to roost, you may not be totally wrong. The France 2019 World Women cup draws paired...... Read more IB Champions Cup: Golden Eaglets Star Oluwatimilehin, heavyweight grassroots clubs hit Benin City for huge football tournament

Fasten your seat belts, visit Benin City if you’re not already there, for top grassroots clubs that have the next big Isaac Success, Kelechi Iheanacho, Wilfred Ndidi et al would be...... Read more Premier League talking points: Emery’s tactical unpredictability and endangered Kante

What a dramatic Derby Sunday in the English Premier League. Three traditionally key fixtures proved true to historical type as Chelsea vs Fulham, Arsenal vs Tottenham and Liverpool vs Everton matches...... Read more Super Falcons: Dennerby Must Work Hard, Wake Up!

Heads or tails, I join the numerous fans of the Super Falcons to congratulate the squad for yet another feather in their cap. The Nigerian senior Women football team, against the...... Read more Bizzare: How player heard of his own death

When Ballybrack FC of Ireland told the Leinster Senior League that LaFuente had died in a traffic accident, one of their matches was postponed and others were preceded by a minute’s...... Read more Man United may have to poach Poch soon

Just contrast the overriding feelings at two venerable stadia in England after about 90 minutes each of Premier League action last weekend. At Old Trafford, the home of the great (or...... Read more Super Eagles Midfield Dilemma: Victor Ikpeba’s Critical Observation, Call!

Congratulations to the Super Falcons and true to predictions and type qualified from its group in her onward journey to defend the trophy she won in Cameroun two years ago. The Nigerian...... Read more From GRASSroots to GRACE: Former Amateur star Ebube Duru speaks about winning Premier League with Lobi and how he faced Athletico Madrid with no fear

For those who follow football at the grassroots level in Nigeria – especially in Nigeria – where the game at level is bedeviled by hardship that young players go through as...... Read more