Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year ✅
United Players' Player of the Year ✅
FWA Footballer of the Year ✅
Premier League Player of the Season ✅
That's our Bruno 🐐
Typically a player who provides Bruno’s output comes with a lot of demands. Usually they are your best player, demanding certain position on the pitch, not tracking back all game to conserve energy, demanding to plan the pressing scheme to their low work rate etc. Bruno is different.
Bruno Fernandes is an absolute unicorn. Don’t think any midfielder is ahead of him for output. Yet, he works his socks off on the pitch. He would be making 60 yard runs back in the 85th minute to stop counter attacks. Then making another lung bursting run in the 90th minute to finish one of our counter attacks. Man is an absolute machine. Mostly injury free while his work rate is amongst the best in the whole league.
In addition to that, read about his off pitch behavior, and you will find that he is the perfect leader and ambassador for the club. Guides every young player. Players keep on talking about him even after leaving the club. Friends with many senior players. Helps the club affairs off the pitch as well. I don’t even know how he has this much time on his hands to be honest.
Absolutely one of a kind, @B_Fernandes8. One of the best players in United history. One of the best captains United have ever had. One of the best players of his generation. Football royalty for me.
I was heading home yesterday when a little girl selling plantains pleaded with me to buy from her. I decided to get two sets, and when it was time to make payment, she asked me to transfer the money to the woman selling beside her. As I was doing that, I told her to pack the plantains for me. After completing the transfer, I thanked them and left, only to get home and realize she had removed one plantain from each set.
A similar thing happened when I accompanied my aunt to the market, but that time, the seller was an elderly woman. I was on my phone while my aunt was trying to withdraw cash to pay, and when the woman thought no one was watching, she sneakily cut off one plantain from the bunch. I let her know I saw her and asked her to add it back.
I didn’t think I needed any level of vigilance when buying from a child.
Now I wonder if this is what people mean when they brag about being "streetwise" in this state. This isn’t being smart; it is THEFT. And when the young and old begin to see deceit as a skill, it says a lot about where we’re headed as a society.
Consistent with its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognize the State of Palestine.
I will make this solemn announcement before the United Nations General Assembly this coming September.
The urgent priority today is to end the war in Gaza and to bring relief to the civilian population.
Peace is possible.
We need an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages, and massive humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza. We must also ensure the demilitarization of Hamas, secure and rebuild Gaza. And finally, we must build the State of Palestine, guarantee its viability, and ensure that by accepting its demilitarization and fully recognizing Israel, it contributes to the security of all in the region.
There is no alternative.
The French people want peace in the Middle East. It is our responsibility — as French citizens, alongside Israelis, Palestinians, and our European and international partners — to prove that peace is possible.
In light of the commitments made to me by the President of the Palestinian Authority, I have written to him to express my determination to move forward.
Trust, clarity, and resolve.
We will achieve peace.
Former President Muhammadu Buhari was arguably the luckiest Nigerian of our time, perhaps of all time. While former President Olusegun Obasanjo holds the record for the longest opportunity ever given to a Nigerian to lead the nation, closely followed by Buhari, what the latter enjoyed was a peculiar form of affection that will continue to intrigue generations of historians. That adoration did not come by accident.
Even Buhari’s critics recognised that his popularity was no myth. He stood apart because he differed from others who held the same office or even lesser ones. He was demonstrably frugal. If he had pursued the primitive accumulation of wealth that defined many of his peers, he would easily have been among the wealthiest of them all.
He was, like all of us, a flawed man, and was criticised for his transgressions. But his watch is over. So, to describe as punishment the long life of someone who lived into his eighties, especially by those half or a quarter his age, is an exercise in irony. It suggests that those of us who might die younger were the less favoured by God.
This is not to gaslight those who feel they have something to say. Every citizen reserves the right to remember a public figure in a manner shaped by their experience. But just as we cannot dictate memory, neither can we impose empathy. Some people were raised on a different moral code, one that allows families the space to grieve, one that recognises that death, no matter how polarising the life that preceded it, is a pause that invites us to reflect on our own impermanence.
The choice to show kindness, even to those with whom we once disagreed, is not hypocrisy. It is what defines our humanity. It is what separates us from lesser creatures, a moral sense of duty to honour life, even in its silence. May Allah forgive his shortcoming, and repose his soul.
"رَبَّنَا آتِنَا مِن لَّدُنكَ رَحْمَةً وَهَيِّئْ لَنَا مِنْ أَمْرِنَا رَشَدًا"
Rabbana atina min-ladunka rahmatan wahayyi' lana min amrina rashada(n)
"Our Lord! Bestow on us mercy from Yourself, and facilitate for us our affair in the right way!"
[Al-Kahf 18:10]
Man, that smile when your kid sees you is everything. The feeling is out of this world. Alhamdulillah ala kulli hal
May God bless, provide and protect them for us. And those that don’t have yet (and want) I pray the get to experience this feeling in sha Allah