Football can be a very emotional sport. When you play or indeed watch the sport, the memories of these emotions can last a lifetime. We remember the last-ditch tackle, clearance or save that rescued the game, the eye-catching dribble, but most of all the goal. Boy, do we love goals. No other emotion can rival seeing the ball in the...

Moise Kean was the most recent recipient of racist abuse in football. In this instance however, his manager and teammate seem to think he owned part of the blame.

No doubt goal celebrations are a huge part of football which is why it is so popular. They are a good way to express the emotions a player is overwhelmed by after he or she scores a goal. Sometimes these celebrations are unplanned and the players just go with the flow. Other times, players not only plan extensive celebration...

In case you not aware, the African Women's Cup of Nations is on right now and here are a few things that have happened; The hosts, Ghana have bowed out and the final group stage matches for Group A were played yesterday. Cameroon topped the group with 7 points, Mali came close with 6 points, Ghana having won just one...

Football is a game of contrasting, yet complimentary circumstances, whether one looks at it from the perspective of an individual player, a team or an entire league system. Teams rise and fall, golden, trophy-laden eras make way for barren, trophy-less runs. Players come and go, and even in their active years, players attain varying levels of prominence before the...

There's a short list of managers about whom we can say the Manchester United managerial job is too big for, the only names on that list are arguably Wilf McGuinness, Frank O'Farrell, David Moyes and now, Jose Mourinho.   United are too big for Jose Mourinho. Just like Real Madrid.   Yes, he's had successes – though you might argue they were only achieved through...

It's 3 pm on a Saturday afternoon, and you know you should be doing something. Something of utmost importance to your existence and yet, at the moment, you’re sorely pressed because you can’t remember what it is. So you surf both the couch and Television channels and then boom, it suddenly hits you! You should be watching club football. You should...

In the past season, we saw the reigning champions Chelsea FC fall so hard they couldn’t even qualify for the UEFA Champions League.  Combined with Conte’s mumblings (justifiable and understandable), it eventually cost him his job, summing the performance of the London clubs in general last season. The City of Manchester, on the other hand, experienced better fortunes claiming the...

Arsenal has not gotten the kind of start that they wanted for the new season and will like to pick up points against Chelsea to kick-start their seasons.

  As the 2019 elections in Nigeria draw ominously closer,  a very familiar pattern in the political landscape is visible. Rising clearly and nauseatingly is the cloud of defection, claims and counterclaims, unwholesome coalitions and spectacular buffoonery. We have been here before.   As the English premier league AKA, the best league in the world kicked off this weekend in Jose Mourinho's...