What do you expect? When gold rusts, what do you expect other metals to do? And to booth, their match bonus is 4,000 blooming US dollars! A nation without priorities.

The party is over and rightly so.

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Result: Senegal 2-1 Nigeria Senegal go through to their first Nations Cup final.

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Now BiafraNigerians can go back and ask Mr Obasanjo and friends why they'll continue to die like chicken in the land of their ancestors.

The football was a huge distraction which Abachanjo loves to exploit to keep his fickle-minded country men occupied while he carries on with his caricature in the name of leadership. It(soccer tournaments) has become the opium of the Biafranigrian masses as mad Sani Abacha found out during his evil reign.

Now we'll go back to real life issues.

Let's put our house in other before thinking of blooming recreation.

Last line: The "super" Eagles went to Mali with a very high rating like our "Giant of Africa". Like their president, they are widely travelled and sadly like their president they have failed to deliver. Like Pele rightly said the teams that lost to BiafraNigeria did so out of awe for their intimidating CV. They are the same countries who think BiafraNigeria is a big strong brother. It is now a matter of public record that when any of these small nations gird their loins and look BiafraNigeria in the eyes, they've always emerged victorious. Ask the Liberians about Ecomog or Sierra Leone for that matter. Now that the fun is over, you'll see that there is no such beast as "Nigeria". I recall after the Lagos final disaster against Cameroun 2 years ago, a Yoruba handle took out a page in Vangaurd Sports section to question Nwankwo Kanu's(Igbo boy) competence as a footballer.
Expect to read more of that in the fallout of this present abysmal outing. In my own thinking the Eagles had it coming and it is a good riddance to a bad rubbish

My sympathy to Austin Okocha whose house was blown up while he was out in that boiling temperature doing obasanjo's bidding. My brother, take your family on a well deserved holiday in romantic Paris or somewhere else. BiafraNigeria as presently constituted is a crying sham and you'd be a sadist(apologies to Achebe) to camp out in Lagos(the second most dangerous city in the world after Beirute when their was war in Beirute).

You guys hit the nail at the head. The operative terms are "awe" and "fluke". The bubble was meant to burst and like all bubbles it has. And BTW,first class air tickets do not win tournaments. The gall of losing to a 10-man Senegalese side!

And before they take Kanu, JayJay et al. (who owe them no allegiance, BTW) to the cleaners, the clueless Amodu whose only qualification is his supposed tribal origin, should go first. How Chairman Chukwu must be laughing his head off.

We like to deceive ourselves. Its one thing to use men close to thirty or even in their thirties to win U-17 tournaments but to be fielding men in their forties and passing them off as twenty plus is sheer self deceit. I recall vividly when these men were already playing clubside soccer. How come they are still in their twenties, some odd 15 yeras plus down the road?

Anyway, time to get back to the brasstacks and begin to get the buffoon in Aso Rock to account.

Hope you're keeping well?
My apologies for getting back this late: I'd switched off and crashed after my entry last night.

Here's the link to the Okocha story: