Football is the most popular sport on planet earth. In Nigeria, football is worshipped and played by a lot of people including me.
Most people are ardent followers of the English Premier League & support teams like Manchester United (Red Devils), Arsenal (Gunners), Chelsea (Blues) & Liverpool (Reds). People roam the streets every weekend to have a glimpse of their team in action on TV. The speed at which premier league football is engulfing Nigerians and the world at large is alarming. You’d see people wearing belts, jerseys, watches, caps, boxers, pants etc just to represent their clubs. Na Chelsea fans do am pass sha. Okada & kabu-kabu drivers are not left out; they decorate their bikes & buses with stickers of their favourite clubs.
I can still recollect back then in 2001 when it was all about Arsenal & Man United, the EPL was less popular, hence there was no news of violence even when these two football heavyweights clashed but now, the story is quite the opposite.
Alas! After the UEFA Champions League final in Rome (May 2009) where Manchester United was trounced, outclassed, outplayed, annihilated, humiliated & taught the game of football by the Numero Uno club in the world at the moment, FC Barcelona, an angry fan in Port Harcourt , Nigeria drove his bus into a crowd of people leaving six people dead &two wounded in the process.
My questions remain “Is this rage worth it? Dem sabi u? Dem dey pay you? These players collect a specified amount of money at the end of every week, match bonus after every match & an extra bonus for taking part in a competition like the UEFA Champions League yet na we dey kill ourselves over nothing.
How do we cure ourselves of this madness abeg?
Random Thoughts Of A Nigerian Youth 
no be small matter o………the problem tends to lie in the inability to know what is a priority……….football is for happiness not for war……even the players do not show the rage shown by their supporters….imagine! People paid for the job do it gently while people who spend to see it the job done kill themselves because of the inability to think through what they are doing…anyway most people fail to know what to take to heart as everything matters to them especially things that do not actually matter.
Football is fun, the best but I see no reason for cases of deaths reported after a football match because the team that lose a game will be alive forever season to season while the fighting groups keep dying.
I believe that the only way to cure the madness is for football teams to encourage awareness among supporters to also have a spirit of sportsmanship not just the players.
Anyway, I prefer playing o…..which team wan buy me jare? hehehehe gbaba boolu jor………….onye egwu! lol
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no be small matter o………the problem tends to lie in the inability to know what is a priority……….football is for happiness not for war……even the players do not show the rage shown by their supporters….imagine! People paid for the job do it gently while people who spend to see it the job done kill themselves because of the inability to think through what they are doing…anyway most people fail to know what to take to heart as everything matters to them especially things that do not actually matter.
Football is fun, the best but I see no reason for cases of deaths reported after a football match because the team that lose a game will be alive forever season to season while the fighting groups keep dying.
I believe that the only way to cure the madness is for football teams to encourage awareness among supporters to also have a spirit of sportsmanship not just the players.
Anyway, I prefer playing o…..which team wan buy me jare? hehehehe gbaba boolu jor………….onye egwu! lol
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Lol. U have said it all. Rangers and Lobi stars are looking for place for their title run-in. Are you interested?
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hahahahahahaa i know u will say such…….i am o once the management and the pay is worth it….i aint interested in full time soccer na hahahahaha
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I meant players in my last reply…you can still sign a contract to play only home matches for either of them
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