That the Eagles have performed below par all through the 2010 World Cup/Nations Cup qualifiers so far is an understatement. It is a fact that many Nigerians have suffered or continue to suffer heartaches each time the team line out to play either at home or away.

Even as Nigerians nurse the hope of the Eagles picking the World Cup ticket ahead of rivals, Tunisia, football critic and former Chairman of the Gombe State Football Association, Alhaji Ahmed Shuaibu Gara-Gombe has said they don’t deserve to be at the event.

The 2009/2010 Premier League season though still young has so far proven to be a very tough one for Shooting Stars Sports Club of Ibadan. The Oluyole Warriors with a new management emerged from the lower division last season and were confident that they will take their pride of place in the elite division. With that huge expectation, they made some changes in the team and thought they were prepared for hostilities in the Premier League, but the surprise came early.

The AIT Footballer of the Year Awards has in its own little way thrown up a lot of small and big issues concerning football and how it should be appreciated. Some of the issues were raised during the event last Sunday in Abuja and today Sunshine Stars FC top executive, Mike Idoko has added to the issues. He believes, the award for Team of the Year, should have gone to his former club Warri Wolves FC of Delta State.

At long last, the new multi-million naira Benin Golf Clubhouse that took some 15 months to build is now up for commissioning. And come October 14, the Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomole, will be unveiling a five-star Clubhouse that is only second to the magnificent Clubouse of the Abuja IBB International Golf Club.

The news from Copenhagen early Friday morning that golf will return as an official Olympic sport at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (and will also be part of the 2020 games) traveled faster than Usain Bolt.

Peter Osaze Odemwingie is the last Eagle standing in a team full of World Cup ‘wannabes’. Players who want to shine like World Cup stars, but lack the commitment to drive their ambition to the limit.

AS Nigerians continue to wait with bathed breath for the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) to call for elections months after it was supposed to have been held, renowned handball and Softball & Baseball administrator, Major-General Ishola Williams has named someone he thinks is best suited to succeed the current President, Engineer Habu Gumel.

Former Eagles captain, Austin Jay Jay Okocha has declared that Tunisia will be beaten in Maputo by the Black Mambas in the last games of the 2010 World Cup qualifiers.

NOT so many people were happy when Samson Siasia agreed to tinker the Flying Eagles to the U-20 World Cup in Egypt. After a glorious outing that saw him lose to Lionel Messi-inspired Argentina 2-1 in 2005 in Holland and lost yet again to Argentina in 2008 at the Beijing Olympics, everybody agreed that at last, a Samson has finally come to judgement in our indigenous coaches. Nigerian fans hailed him as the next man to take over the job of coaching the Green Eagles.