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  • So Guys, Here’s Why Most Girls Can’t Really Get Into The Football Hype

    1. So you can sit down and watch 20 guys run around and kick a ball for one hour, but watching Jenifa’s Diary with us is too much work?

    2. So is this fantasy football thing like Predict and Win Money? because we are not understanding again oh

    3. At least that one is better than that Football Manager game with those dots, who else almost booked deliverance from this game for their baes?

    4. What even is an offside?

    5. Is it not to just kick ball and go? Which one is aggregate score again? When it’s not further maths

    6. Please oh, we are not the ones that said your team should allow flogging of 5-1, don’t take your anger out on us, please please

    7. Lowkey, the only time we actually care about your team is when we steal your jerseys to flex with

    Boyin Plumptre

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  • If Your Boyfriend Loves Football More Than You, This Is For You.

    If Your Boyfriend Loves Football More Than You, This Is For You.

    1. When you have to organise date nights around football matches.

    2. When you joke about his favourite player and he starts crying.

    3. When his team loses a match so the rest of the day he gives you attitude.

    4. When he spends the time he isn’t watching football, playing football or FIFA games.

    5. When your brother supports a rival team and him and your boyfriend are always arguing about it.

    6. When he sees anything that has to do with his team in public.

    7. When his favourite player is moving to another team, he’s like:

    8. When you watch a match with him and start asking too many questions.

    9. Then the next time you watch together, he feels you’re not enthusiastic enough.

    10. When you complain about how much time he spends playing football games and he says his games don’t complain about how much time he spends with you.

    Jola Ayeye

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  • This Nigerian Footballer Balanced A Ball On His Head And Cycled 64 Miles In Lagos

    This Nigerian Footballer Balanced A Ball On His Head And Cycled 64 Miles In Lagos

    First of all, we are happy something good is coming out of Nigeria. Since the Recession wahala, there’s been very little to laugh or even joke about.

    Now, one of us is very likely going to make the Guinness World Records for carrying a football on his head and cycling 64 miles.

    His name is Harrison Chinedu, and no one has carried out this amazing feat before, so there’s really no World Record to break.

    I mean he rode from the outskirts of Lagos, all the way to Surulere, dodged countless potholes and numerous bad drivers! This is actually insanely awesome!

    Guinness World Record people, why have you not put his name in the book already?

    If you guys don’t put it, we will fight you!

    Shola

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  • Jay-Jay Okocha Has been Rapping Before We Could Say ‘Hip-Hop’ And We Have Proof

    1. Jay Jay Okocha is without any doubt, one of the biggest Nigerian football legends. His skills on the football pitch are too memorable to be forgotten.

    2. But you can imagine our surprise when this video of him rapping surfaced on the internet.

    3. The single, ‘I I Am Am Jay Jay’ was released in 1994 and of course it had to be about football.

    4. We’re wondering why Uncle Jay Jay never talks about his brief music career sha. Low hits, maybe? We’ll let you be he judge. What do you think of this song? Share your thoughts in the comments section.

    Maryam

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  • Watford FC Dragged Man-U Into The Ground And The Banter Was Too Epic

    On September 18th, Watford FC humiliated Man-U and beat them (3-1) like a thief in Idumota market.

    But that’s not why we’re here sha! The God of banter blessed us and the trolling was out of this world.

    https://twitter.com/adegbiji/status/777494461525950464

    It was such a yama yama match!

    Eh ya! After making mouth at the beginning of the season.

    Just look at what Man-U spent 89 million Pounds on:

    Money has wasted o, hay God!

    At least some of us can do everything.

    Three words for Man-U, R.I.P!

    Daddy Mou might just be Arsene Wenger part 2.

    Because he’s just sharing points for everybody.

    https://twitter.com/TrollFootball/status/777493426866491392

    Instead of Ferguson to just copy Uncle Mugabe and hold Man-U to his chest.

    https://twitter.com/vanessah_kei/status/777492539540635652

    Instead of them to just carry their matter to church.

    Man-U fans should just chop this ela in peace.

    See, let’s give all glory to the god of banter once again!

    https://twitter.com/dejazimako007/status/776870334360420353

    Maryam

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  • Nigeria’s U-23 Team Has Won The Country’s Only Medal in Rio

    Nigeria’s U-23 Team Has Won The Country’s Only Medal in Rio
    You remember how difficult the U-23 had it in the first week of the Olympics, don’t you? From cancelled flights to tales of being kicked out of their hotel rooms, this team had basically seen it all.

    The U-23 team finally clinched a medal in the Rio 2016 Olympics and we still can’t believe it.

    The team faced Honduras in a battle for the Bronze title after loosing 2-0 to Germany in the semi-finals.

    The Nigerian team dominated the game for the first 80 minutes with 3 goals from Sadiq Umar and Aminu Umar.

    We seriously thought we had the bronze in the bag until Anthony Lozano and Marcelo Pereira won 2 goals for Team Honduras in the final 20 minutes.

    This was us when we saw they had added 4 minutes of extra time to the game.

    Mercifully, the whistle was blown and Team Nigeria WON!

    Nigeria’s football bronze was the only medal the country managed to clinch in Rio. A tiny step-up from the London 2012 Summer Olympics performance where we had zero medals.

    Nigeria is the first African country to have completed a sweep of Olympic medals: Atlanta ’96 Gold, Beijing ’08 Silver and now Rio ’16 Bronze.

    Meanwhile, the Japanese plastic surgeon who promised the team a whooping $390,000 if they won actually came through!

    And get this, this good Samaritan actually traveled down to Brazil from Tokyo, to cheer the boys during their game against Honduras.

    Takasu said he was deeply moved by the Dream team’s financial challenges and extremely resilient spirit.

    His actions are in sharp contrast to that of Nigerian billionaires, who were not able to assist Nigerian athletes, after the government had shown little or no support for them.

    Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man promised the Super Eagles $1 million after their 2013 African Cup of Nations win, but the money has not been disbursed to date.

    As Tokyo 2020 closes in, we hope there’ll be a complete overhaul of the Nigerian Sports ministries and its agencies, so real heroes like these can be properly motivated and compensated.

    Shola

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  • 13 Classic Pictures Of Pele, The Football Legend

    13 Classic Pictures Of Pele, The Football Legend
    In the football world, the name of Brazilian football legend, Edson Arantes do Nascimiento,  who was named after inventor, Thomas Edison, will never cease to be mentioned. Almost 60 years after making his first appearance in Nigeria during the famous ceasefire of the Nigerian civil war, Pele will be in Nigeria for a series of football events, happening in Lagos later in 2016. Although he was earlier scheduled to visit Nigeria on August 11, his trip was postponed due to reports of his ill health on August 5.

    To celebrate the arrival of this legend, here are 13 iconic pictures of the amazing Pele:

    1. When he was just a little boy.

    2. When he shed tears of joy after winning the first World Cup for Brazil in 1958.

    3. When he became the youngest winner of a World Cup at 17.

    4. During his first visit to Nigeria during the civil war.

    5. That time his team carried him up high after Brazil won the World Cup yet again in 1970.

    6. Pele sharing a hug with the incredible Mohammed Ali in 1977.

    7. This picture was taken at the famous football match he played during the civil war in Nigeria.

    8. When he delivered the most effortless bicycle kick we’ve ever seen in 1968.

    9. This picture of two of the greatest Brazilian footballers ever.

    10. He was basically chilling with his medals like a bad guy.

    11. That time his team mates celebrated his 1000-goal count in 1969.

    12. When he had to leave the pitch after getting injured during a match against Portugal in 1966.

    13. This adorable picture of him playing football with children on the beach.

    We wish him a speedy recovery so he can come and visit us soon!

    Maryam

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  • Everything That Happens To Nigerians That Bet On Football

    Everything That Happens To Nigerians That Bet On Football

    When all your guys suddenly started betting and you were just looking at them like:

    See your lives.

    Then your account balance finally made you swallow your pride.

    Hay God!

    You, doing permutation and combination before placing your very first bet.

    No time.

    You, after your first straight bet clicked.

    It has started.

    You, adding “Data analytics and Forecast Expert” to your CV after your second bet clicked.

    I sabi the work.

    You and Live Score:

    Your new bestfriend.

    Whenever your first game spoils your slip.

    CHAI!

    Whenever you hear gist of people that used N100 to win 3 million.

    Let’s hear word.

    When you go and place 10 slips praying that at least one will enter.

    Baba God, do it for your child.

    You, watching all of them cast one by one.

    Why me?

    How you look at the team that still managed to mess up your double chance bet:

    So useless.

    When you finally place one high risk bet but you swear you’ve picked a winner.

    This is my time.

    You, wondering whether you should tell your guys or chill and chop alone.

    Nah! Them no born me with anybody.

    You, looking at your expected winnings when none of your games have casted.

    My testimony is loading.

    When your slip is remaining just one game.

    God, hear me oh!

    You, calculating what you will use all that money to buy.

    I will ball sha.

    When by half-time it’s still 1-1 and you put straight win.

    What is this?

    When you refresh Live Score and 86th minute nothing has changed.

    My enemies want to shame me.

    Then 93rd minute, your village witches allow the other team score.

    I’m dead.

    You swear you’ll never bet again, but Bet9ja and Nairabet are there looking at you like:

    You’ll be back.

    Daniel Orubo

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  • Olajumoke And Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy Have A Lot More In Common Than You’d Think

    Olajumoke And Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy Have A Lot More In Common Than You’d Think
    Like Olajumoke, many successful people of today didn’t have a rosy background but ended up with a miraculous breakthrough.

    She began her hustle in Iree, Osun state as a hairdresser. She later moved to Lagos and began selling bread to support her family.

    Just like Leicester City forward, Jamie Vardy. Although he didn’t sell bread, he also “started from the bottom”.

    When he was 16, Jamie tried to make his dreams as a footballer come true. He was rejected by Sheffield Wednesday because he was too small and wasn’t the kind of footballer they wanted.

    However, he joined Stockbridge Park where he was paid 30 pounds a week, and worked as a carbon factory worker just to make ends meet.

    Although he was earning roughly 850 pounds a week by the time he was signed to Leicester City, the team still didn’t stand a chance of winning the league by the time he joined.

    Jamie Vardy’s team survived relegation in 2015 and with his help, miraculously won the league.

    Just like how the God of Olajumoke came through for her only months after she came to Lagos…

    That photobomb brought Olajumoke endorsements, a luxury apartment and of course, money!

    Jamie is also cashing in roughly 80,000 pounds a week (as of early 2016) which is a lot considering where he came from.

    And just like Olajumoke…

    Vardy doesn’t joke with his family.

    They’re both awesome and inspiring! Carry on jare!

    Maryam

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  • Nigerians Remember Super Eagles Legend, Rashidi Yekini

    Nigerians Remember Super Eagles Legend, Rashidi Yekini
    It has been four years since Nigeria’s football legend, Rashidi Yekini passed away but his greatness on the pitch will never be forgotten.

    Yekini died at 48 after a suffering from a brief illness in 2012 and was buried in Kwara state.

    He scored the Super Eagle’s first ever World Cup goal at the 1994 Tournament in USA.

    Even in death, he still holds the record as the highest goal scorer for the Super Eagles with 37 goals and was the first Nigerian to be voted as African Player Of The Year in 1994.

    On May 4, the 4th anniversary of his death, his former colleague, Sunday Oliseh, and other Nigerians paid tribute to him on Twitter.

    They remembered his goal scoring feats.

    His dedication to the game.

    And how he scored a hat trick at 39.

    People like him deserve better treatment from the government.

    https://twitter.com/ebuka_akara/status/727844337321676801

    Legends like Rashidi Yekini should be officially recognised for their impact and influence on the country. We hope football bodies in Nigeria ensure proper recognition and celebration of Nigerian football legends.

    Maryam

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