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Lampard; impatience or not ready?

 

"Football? Bloody hell!" - Sir Alex Ferguson. 

At the beginning of the 2020/2021 English Premier League season, the top EPL clubs that had their club legend as Managers were Chelsea (Frank Lampard), Manchester United (Olé Gunar Solskjaer) and Arsenal (Mikel Arteta). Eight games in, nobody had the slightest incline that the first casualty among the top six will be club legend and record goal scorer, Lampard, but here we are.

Forty long and weird days without football

It's been 40 days without football. Forty strange days. The last professional football game we saw was Europa League match that saw Rangers fall to Bayern Leverkusen 1-3 at the Ibrox Stadium on Thursday, 12th March.
For many of us football is life. We eat, breathe and live football. Try therefore to imagine how we have survived forty long days without the beautiful game.

El Classico as we know it.

An El classico without Crisitian Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. The first in a while.
Before you begin to wonder, yes, obviously Cristiano watched from the stands as a guest. Messi? It can be said he didn't play. We have come to measure Leo with the lofty standard he'd set over the years. Same standard is what we didn't see yesterday night hence the first sentence.

Desert Foxes stop the Eagles mid flight

First off, it is important to note that the better side won the game. Again, Super Eagles gave thier best. In every game of football one side must emerge victorious. The side that take their chances will win.
Through out the AFCON 2019, Algeria has been the most impressive side. They have played as a solid unit under the leadership of Manager, Djamel Belmadi and Captain Riyadh Mahrez who is still fresh from winning the EPL with Manchester City.

Joy in Nigeria as Super Eagles beat Bafana Bafana.

The game commenced in a slow pace with each team being cautious. Rohr started a full fire attack line of Ighalo, Musa and Chukwueze. While Ighalo wasn't afforded space by the South African central defence, Musa and Chukwueze ran the flanks like their homes tormenting the South African defence.
It paid off in the 27th minute when a square pass from Iwobi after an exchange with Musa was met by Chukwueze who needed a second tap to take it past Williams for Nigeria's first.

Their next victim? Pogba.

The hypocrisy of English football press when it comes to football(ers) is mind boggling. We've had cases where they exhibit a basket full of rotten bias in relation to foreign players. It may not be the case but it all looks like they gather and decide to embark on a smear campaign against a foreign player. One player at a time, their latest victim is Paul Pogba.