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.