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A leader should feel privileged to serve to entitled to rule

[Ab. @olaoluwajedalo]

Believing someone stole N210 trillion is an IQ test, if you ask me.

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@tobyasky @Floyd_Narcisse The government are Kenyans?

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A religion that entrenches misogyny

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@effxzzzyy @effizzzyy Waybill choke

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@Phatbabeluuu Education is on cruise control.

Piss poor leadership

[olodumare lokan enthusiast @560Good]

Gumbody

[Pulse Nigeria @PulseNigeria247]

"Team Nigeria" at the 2026 World Cup. 🇳🇬

Here are all the players of Nigerian descent currently representing other countries at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

[olodumare lokan enthusiast @560Good]

@ElijahTrillionz @Emarged lol

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Emperor no get off time

[• @gnf_ogo]

He’s already telling him his rules and regulations

[• @gnf_ogo]

He’s already telling him his rules and regulations

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@sxdiqcarter_ The spammer

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@Hikidking @dudubody Isn’t life itself a performance

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@BF1899_ @ReshadRahman_ lol

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@tobyasky It’s about the coach

[Solace Chukwu @TheOddSolace]

I have an abiding annoyance with how the idea of 'pragmatism' is spoken of in football.

In the proper sense, pragmatism is contextual and rational, based upon an appraisal of not just the problem but also the tools/resources/circumstances available. As such, what is pragmatic for one may not be so for another. If I have an urgent meeting and the means to arrive at it via helicopter, it would not be pragmatic for me to take the bus and expose myself to the whims of Lagos traffic; for an individual of more modest means and/or without a similar time constraint, pragmatism would necessitate the opposite.

Pragmatism is doing a cold, logical appraisal of the tools at your disposal and thereby coming up with a problem-solving framework that best maximises them. Apply this to football: pragmatism, in a nutshell, is to identify your team's strengths (and/or weaknesses) relative to the opposition, and build a tactical system that platforms and/or mitigates them, thereby giving you the most logical route to success. And because the aim of football is to both score and prevent concession, that system must balance both the mitigation of weakness and the platforming of strength in order to be complete.

The direction in which that balance tilts depends on the dynamic at play: when facing an opponent with inferior resources, the latter should be privileged over the former to a degree reflective of the disparity, and vice versa in the opposite case. If, comparatively speaking, you boast greater attacking riches than your adversary, to be pragmatic is to attack, to assert and impose your will. (We even, subconsciously, have a concept of this: in 2002 when France, boasting the top scorers from the Premier League, Serie A and Ligue 1 limped out of the World Cup with two defeats in three, no one asked why they did not defend better. Instead, everyone asked how it was that they left Korea with a zero in the 'goals scored' column.)

What we saw from South Africa last night, and what is often labelled pragmatic, is a football that is defence-first, that seeks to contain regardless of competitive advantages. Bafana, with a squad heavily composed of a Mamelodi Sundowns side the world watched and admired at last summer's Club World Cup, were not so inferior to Mexico that they needed to abdicate all of their distinguishing characteristics. Yet, not only did they completely deny the possession-based approach that should have been their edge against the hosts, they sat in with a back five and were painfully passive out of possession.

That was not pragmatism. It was cowardice.

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@Peculiar_pearlC lol

Same quick think from both sides and you are playing victim

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@jorgeteneche @_alexrodrigz Read up man

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@danieIscouting He’s not the box defender they need. Thats a luxurious transfer

[Máfejópamí @VillageParrot]

I want to ask a question.

Do you “people” really think you will end up like Sophia Ugbeje or Temi Otedola?

I have very terrible news for you o.

The best man many of you will end up with, if you’re lucky, he’ll own a 2008 Toyota Corolla—that’s if you’re lucky.

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@tomisin_ms Might ke? Parties and food wastage are together now

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@arrakunrin Happened 3 times. That’s a good time girl now. You put her in her category from day 1. And keep the ball rolling