I have always taken every opportunity to say that this country is so unique that you cannot find its like any where in the world.

I do not know whether you also saw him, tastefully dressed on cable tv, appealing to us to shun the green white green and put on the red,green and yellow colours of Ghana. “ blah….blah…. me and my peeps blah…. Blah…. Support Ghana blah ….blah …blah…”

After a tortuous four year qualification journey that climaxed with 32 teams qualifying for the grand showdown in south Africa, yesterday, the field was reduced to eight, the famous eight, one in which any of the teams therein can lay claim and rightly too, to the most prized diadem in world sports.

Saturday Ghana did Africa proud by qualifying for the quarter final of the first ever world cup on African soil. Saturday, Africa, nay the world celebrated what was considered a welcome development in a world cup that has so far yielded tears for a continent that pulled out all the stops to guarantee a hitch free hosting.

Saturday Ghana did Africa proud by qualifying for the quarter final of the first ever world cup on African soil. Saturday, Africa, nay the world celebrated what was considered a welcome development in a world cup that has so far yielded tears for a continent that pulled out all the stops to guarantee a hitch free hosting.

Calabar has become a sweet experience for the Athletics Federation of Nigeria and Mobil Producing Nigeria, operators of the NNPC/MPN Joint Venture.

This is the first World Cup on African soil. Some say given the organizational bar raised by the South Africans, perhaps it will take South Africa again to host the next one. This is Africa’s World Cup and there has been a lot of efforts to make it an ‘African World Cup.’

The die is cast. We do not care whether we prepared well or not. All we are asking for is that the Argentines should be brought on.

Today, the greatest sports show on earth, with due respect to the Olympic Games, will kick off at the impressive 94,700 seating African Calabash Soccer City stadium that FIFA president Joseph Blatter has described as one of the best in the world. If the Fifa president himself can say that, then you better believe it .

When I started this column Thursday morning the working topic was ‘On and off the field’
On and off the field, for me was a need to remind us that though performances on the field could be key, off the field bungling could cost a team dear.