Omolayo Joshua

Dad, husband, plant scientist, scholar

[Omolayo Joshua @JoshuaPhocus]

1. BSc. with First class 🇳🇬
2. MSc. with Distinction 🇬🇧
3. Ph.D. with CGPA of 4.0/4.0 and 7 first-authored papers 🇺🇸

[Landa @landahq]

What is your academic IDAN moment?

[Omolayo Joshua @JoshuaPhocus]

@tobyasky Crystal Palace won’t get anything less than £50m, even though he’s 30 already.

[E @Ellis_]

It’s not too late for the rest of you to admit that Messi is the greatest of all time and appreciate him at this World Cup btw.

I done it at the World Cup 2022 after spending years lying because of club allegiances.

[TobyWrites @tobyasky]

I’ve said it years ago.

What you should say is RONALDO IS MY FAVORITE. That is very okay.

In no world is Ronaldo a better player than Messi, no world.

The thing is that you know it, but you’re too shy to admit because you’ve been a Ronaldo-stan for years. Show maturity.

[TobyWrites @tobyasky]

Messi hat trick

My God.

What am I watching.

God I am grateful for bringing me to this world in this generation. I witnessed the start of Messi and his whole career. My God

[Omolayo Joshua @JoshuaPhocus]

@tobyasky Dem don count this one now 😁

[Omolayo Joshua @JoshuaPhocus]

@tobyasky @tobyasky Waiting for your comments about Elijah Just who had a brace

[Omolayo Joshua @JoshuaPhocus]

@tobyasky None of them are winning.

[Omolayo Joshua @JoshuaPhocus]

@SgtShow01 @SirDavidBent @longthing_ynwa Na you get the building now…stairs and elevator na for poor man pikin 🤣

[Omolayo Joshua @JoshuaPhocus]

@SgtShow01 Ehen…I think they’ll top their group and be drawn against a team that finished 3rd in o the groups.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Happy birthday, Kai ❤️

[Sgt Show @SgtShow01]

I recently decided to let go of the contract I had with the folks doing my lawn (cutting my grass).

It cost $80 a month, and they cut it at a medium height 2x a month, but it grew so fast.

So I did the Nigerian in me, got my own lawn care tools, and started doing it myself.
It’s a form of exercise for me now!
And now I save $1,000 a year.

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

2️⃣ days to go.

Lionel Messi is the only player to win two #FIFAWorldCup adidas Golden Ball awards 🏆🏆

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Topping off an incredible campaign 😮‍💨

David Raya is your Player of the Month for May 🥇

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

A sea of red ❤️

[Premier League @premierleague]

One week on from a Premier League party on the streets of north London ❤️

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

This time last week...

[Sxnti @PeakSxnti]

Arsenal friends and foes from 2025/2026 season.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In 2012, Chelsea finished sixth in England and fired their manager in March. They still won the Champions League, the biggest prize in club football. The team that finished first in England that year, Manchester City, did not even make it out of the group stage.

Guardiola is pointing at exactly that gap. A league title takes 38 games against everyone else, home and away, over nine months. You cannot win it by accident. The Champions League trophy comes down to a handful of knockout games in spring. Football is a low-scoring sport, so one goal can decide who advances. Over a single match, the score barely tells you which team was better. Your best player limps off in April, a referee waves away a clear penalty, a shootout goes against you, and nine months of work disappears. Chelsea won that 2012 final on penalties, in Bayern Munich's own stadium, while sitting sixth in their own country.

His own career says the same thing. Across Spain, Germany, and England, Guardiola has won the league title twelve times. He has won the Champions League three times, and twelve years passed between his second and his third. For most of that stretch he had the best team in Europe and still went home early, beaten by the same thing he is describing.

Barcelona under Hansi Flick is the latest example. They have won the Spanish league two years running and won every major trophy in Spain the season before. Then Inter knocked them out of Europe, 7-6 across two games. The next year they lost to an Atletico Madrid side sitting twenty-two points beneath them in the league. Over a full season, Barcelona were clearly the better team. Over two nights, they lost.

A league title means you were the best team in the country for nine months. A Champions League run means you got through a few nights in spring without anything going wrong. Guardiola is asking people not to confuse the two.

[Omolayo Joshua @JoshuaPhocus]

@nanaba_scorpee Germany
Brazil
England
Portugal