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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 Will Twitter users take over the job of a coach someday like Wenger fears? Likely!

Arsene Wenger is well-known for being a perspicatious man with a vast insight in the football game and the game of life itself. Inspite of this, or because of this, he...... Read more AFCON 2019: Super Eagles on the Move!

Like this page wrote last week on the Super Eagles AFCON second leg qualifier game between Nigeria and South Africa on their home soil, the result already known meant that the...... Read more Germany’s belief in young players bearing fruit in England’s stars Sancho and Neilson

The Whatsapp group messages between Jadon Sancho and Reiss Nelson have been pinging away all season. The England youngsters – both 18 – are plying their trade in the German Bundesliga...... Read more How Everton silenced Chelsea's Jorginho

Chelsea endured a frustrating Sunday afternoon home draw against a brave and tactically sound Everton side in the English Premier League, missing the chance to go top of the table for...... Read more Super Eagles, Falcons November 17 Date with History!

November 17, Super Eagles and the Super Falcons will be on parade for supremacy and it is believed that the players used as replacements would exploit this opportunity to announce themselves...... Read more Edo Deputy Governor makes history as player; grassroots stars deliver for Bendel, as Insurance beat 3SC to near promotion to Nigerian top flight league

One of Nigeria’s most storied and traditional football clubs, Bendel Insurance of Benin City, took one mighty step towards reclaiming its place in the top flight of Nigerian league football by...... Read more Goal-machine Pascal Durugbor's invitation to Flying Eagles a just reward for hardwork and quality

A few days ago Sweden-based Nigerian striker Pascal Durugbor received a pleasant news. The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) wrote to his third division club Vaxjo United informing them of the federation's need...... Read more NFF Reforms Committee: Paradise in Sight?

Unlike the confused bunch that join the bandwagon, I hardly follow that weather-beaten track as the many years in Journalism has thought me to look before leaping. The canons of the...... Read more Exciting Nigerian youngster Ighodaro Looking forward with excitement after joining South African top side Sundowns.

Etinosa Ighodaro is a young player with lots of potentials and many who have watched him in the grassroots of Nigerian football can attest to that. The youngster recently put pen...... Read more I need young, tall and well-built strikers, says agent who brokered Kenneth Omeruo’s move to Chelsea

He can be described as a man of style and substance both in the field of business and in football. Obinna Emelogu emerged firmly into the consciousness of the football fraternity...... Read more Rangers, Other Matters On My Mind

Dear readers, I will crave your indulgence to address or refer to Aiteo Cup as FA Cup to vividly capture the essence of what happened between Rangers International FC and Kano...... Read more Iwobi is top candidate for 'Young Player of the Season', as Chelsea show class in giving permission to their young Nigerian player Tomori to play against them in Carling Cup

When Arsenal's new head coach Unai Emery came on board many big changes were expected in the club. Among such changes was the the expected shuffling of the playing personel of...... Read more Losing Ronaldo should have elicited Real Madrid fraternity wearing black

I recently read an incisive piece in the current struggles that arguably football's greatest club side Real Madrid are going through.They are having a very dreadful run in the Spanish La...... Read more AFCON 2019: Glimmer of Hope for Nigeria

One has finally come to believe that many that have been parading themselves as Sports Journalists are really idlers of the first order. To be honest with you, I don’t engage...... Read more