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Welcome, EPL!

Welcome, EPL!

The 2010/2011 English Premier League season promises to live up to its billing •Chelsea players exult after winning the EPL last season. The English Premier League, EPL, is dubbed the longest and most interesting soap opera in the football world. Intriguing,...
Fabulous Falconets

Fabulous Falconets

Falconets of Nigeria bows to home side Germany in the final of the Under-20 Women’s World Cup, but Nigerians are deeply appreciative •Falconets Nku (left) tussles with a German player in the final. In a summer in which Nigerian football offered precious...
Worthy World Champions

Worthy World Champions

Spain, one of footballs’s most reliable failures, turns the corner by beating Holland to win its first World Cup •Skipper Iker Casillas and his teammates exult after their World Cup triumph. Few predictions for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa left...
The Ultimate Winner

The Ultimate Winner

Paul, the enigmatic psychic octopus ends the World Cup held in South Africa with an inexplicable unblemished record •Paul here picks Spain to beat the Netherlands. Spain may have won the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Yet it did not have a 100 per...
NFF Officials Did Not Set Good Example

NFF Officials Did Not Set Good Example

The Managing Director of Complete Communications, publishers of Complete Sports, Mumini Alao, who took a brief break to watch some matches at 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa spoke to TUNDE OYEDELE about the state of football in Nigeria •Mumini...
Lulu’s Stinking Glass HouseStinking

Lulu’s Stinking Glass HouseStinking

The controversial withdrawal of the Super Eagles from international football competitions by President Goodluck Jonathan has been reversed but the action continues to generate varied reactions • Lulu: Presided over a dirty NFF, yet desperate to sit...
The Problem With African Football

The Problem With African Football

Legendary French midfielder, Zinedine Zidane, tells TUNDE OYEDELE what he thinks is the problem of African football •Zinedine Zidane. How would you rate the performances of African teams at the 2010 World Cup? With the exception of Cameroun, Senegal...
Conned By Ticket Syndicates

Conned By Ticket Syndicates

Fans at the World Cup walk into traps set by ticket fraudsters Fans at the 2010 World Cup may have been thrilled at seeing their idols perform in flesh, but many are less than chuffed at falling victim of ticket scammers. Although FIFA has dissociated...
Flaks For Lagerback

Flaks For Lagerback

Lars Lagerback’s decision to come up with a 44-man provisional World Cup list draws flak Recently, Lars Lagerback, coach of the Super Eagles,  released a 44-man provisional list for the World Cup. Lagerback’s list elicited very few surprisies. The...
The World Cup Is Fascinating

The World Cup Is Fascinating

AS Monaco and Super Eagles midfield starlet, Lukman Haruna, tells TUNDE OYEDELE how he is finding the World Cup How do you feel playing at the World Cup? It’s fulfilling, very fulfilling for me because well over 44 players were listed before the...
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