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#TimeNoDey HCOONa Matata

[Derek @RxDerek]

Absolutely nothing said here!!!...

[- @NotPaneen]

Chelsea plan to announce Lacroix today, they also are fine with announcing him tomorrow. However this does not rule out an opportunity for him to be announced a day later. (@CFCAccountable) #CFC

[Derek @RxDerek]

@PacoBoyEdem This halftime show is so unnecessary!!!

[Derek @RxDerek]

@codaigh10 If he so much as draws this game, he deserves the sack.

[Derek @RxDerek]

Nah Tuchel will be sacked!

[Colin Millar @Millar_Colin]

Mad how this World Cup had Carlo Ancelotti, Thomas Tuchel, Mauricio Pochettino and Julian Nagelsmann teams all blaze out while the final is between two teams managed by guys whose professional club management experience *combined* is 11 games at Alaves 15 years ago.

[Derek @RxDerek]

We should optimize for a guy who wants out at the least issue. I'm genuinely happy the club doesn't make decisions based of ITK opinions.

[ExpectedChelsea @ExpectedChelsea]

The answer is obvious, but might be hard for Chelsea fans to digest.

The club messed up Enzo by signing Caicedo. Both are good players individually, but they're not a good pair.

As a club, we should've optimized for Enzo, but we didn't.

[Derek @RxDerek]

@rtspykes @knw_kelvin 😂😂😂😂

[Derek @RxDerek]

What is happening at Newcastle?...

[David Ornstein @David_Ornstein]

🚨 EXCL: Aston Villa in process of finalising move to sign Johan Manzambi from Freiburg. Newcastle United had agreement with #SCF but #NUFC lacked player approval. 20yo Swiss midfielder wants #AVFC & deal now accelerating towards conclusion @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/UTfbtXcSaH

[Derek @RxDerek]

@BalkanEmpire08 Oh cut this crap! Check his TL and YouTube. 90% of what he puts out is negativity. He blammed Blueco severely for sacking Maresca and when the truth comes out, he posts the lamest excuse of an apology. All he spews out is pessimism!!!

[Derek @RxDerek]

@rtspykes A pure hater @rtspykes !!! 😂😂😂

[Fentuo Tahiru Fentuo @Fentuo_]

https://t.co/mswGeWHzO7

[Gye Nyame-The African Warrior @kbd_warrior_su]

You can draw a straight line from how the GFA operates to how Ghana is governed. Get money, pretend to do something, waste the money, and then pray and hope that somehow everything works out.

[Derek @RxDerek]

You're making a lot of sense...

[Enoch Δ @agyeitah]

Totally missed your response.

But this isn’t about pride, @garyalsmith. It’s about false narratives being given the time of day.

Underdogs lose leads to favourites. Everywhere. In every confederation.

When Japan lost a 2–0 lead to Belgium, people praised Belgium, gave Japan some slack and moved on. Nobody indicted Asian football.

Croatia scored first and lost yesterday.

It’s football.

But I find the way you build this supposed 30-year pattern strange.

Your most obvious pull was Nigeria in 1994. So I went back and checked the actual data.

All of it.

Since 1970, African teams have taken the lead in 79 World Cup matches.

They won 44, drew 21 and lost 14.

That means African teams avoided defeat 82.3% of the time after taking the lead.

Even in this tournament, the full picture is different from the story being told.

Yes, Côte d’Ivoire led and lost to Germany. DR Congo led and lost to England. Senegal led and lost to Belgium.

But Morocco led and drew with Brazil.

Egypt led and drew with Belgium and Iran.

Cape Verde led and drew with Uruguay.

Algeria led and drew with Austria.

South Africa led and beat South Korea.

Côte d’Ivoire led and won two games.

Egypt led and beat New Zealand.

Senegal led and beat Iraq.

Ghana led and beat Panama.

Algeria led and beat Jordan.

So African teams have led 15 times in this tournament: 7 wins, 5 draws and 3 losses.

That is not a continental pathology.

That is football.

And if this were an African problem, Africa should at least be uniquely bad at it.

We aren’t.

From 1970 to 2022, African teams lost 17.2% of World Cup matches after taking the lead.

AFC teams lost 20%.

CONCACAF teams lost 23.4%.

Even if we start from 1994, your 30-year window, it is CAF 16.4%, AFC 20% and CONCACAF 22.9%.

So where exactly is this unmistakable African pattern?

You have built a continental theory from a few painful games spread across decades.

To do that, you have to ignore Algeria holding against West Germany in ’82.

Cameroon repeatedly holding in ’90.

Nigeria seeing off Spain in ’98.

Ghana killing games in ’06.

And just four years ago, African teams led nine times at the 2022 World Cup and didn’t lose once.

Cameroon held against Brazil.

Tunisia held against France.

Morocco held against Belgium, Canada and Portugal.

That was four years ago. Not 30.

And before someone says these numbers are inflated by games against weaker opposition, let’s narrow the sample further.

Let’s look only at games where African teams took the lead against European and South American opposition.

Since 1970, it has happened 53 times.

African teams won 27.

Drew 14.

Lost 12.

That is a 77.4% non-loss rate after taking the lead against the two historically strongest footballing regions in the world.

So what you have identified is not a pattern.

It is a highlight reel of pain with the denominator deleted.

Yes, the collapses were real. Senegal’s was bad. DR Congo’s was bad. Côte d’Ivoire’s was bad.

But Japan’s against Belgium was bad too.

Croatia scored first and lost.

Spain’s collapse against Nigeria in 1998 was spectacular.

The difference is that those failures were attributed to the people who actually oversaw them: the players, the coach, the team.

Nobody said, “Croatia blew a lead, so Europeans lack concentration.”

Nobody built an Asian theory from Japan doing it more than once.

As for the coaches you cite, Thiaw was diagnosing Senegal’s game management.

That was his team in a game his team blew.

Senegal is a team.

Africa is a continent.

A coach owning his own failure is accountability. Stretching it into a verdict on 54 countries is your addition, not his.

And that is my pushback.

You may be coming from a place of good intentions. But Africa, and I must say this to you as an African, is diverse.

Sometimes coaches make bad decisions. Sometimes players panic. Sometimes underdogs sit too deep. Sometimes the better team comes back.

Sometimes a team just blows a lead.

[Stoichkov @akwasi_stoich]

Ghanaians don't want to pay D-levy but the government didn't focus on attitude. They engineered a way to get us to pay it.

However, for floods, they want to focus on attitude instead of engineering a solution.

Be there wai

[Derek @RxDerek]

Amad Diallo!!!!

[Derek @RxDerek]

What a goal!!!!!

[Derek @RxDerek]

@Call_me_jewelz High time we started shaming these greedy vendors.

[Derek @RxDerek]

Minimalism is the way to go.

[KODUAH @koduahtweets]

a city with this poor drainage system has no business having properties being sold at $150k +

[Derek @RxDerek]

@Paapakwame 😂😂😂

[Derek @RxDerek]

Hmmmm gimme a min make i check this info plus the boys. There might be more to this...

[Paapakwame @Paapakwame]

Once upon a time I dated this girl who lived in teshie but worked at ridge ….at a point I had a deal with a taxi driver and he will pick her up from home in the morning to work and bring her back in the evening…this went on for like a year….eeeeiii in the end e still cast…. Not saying it’s the same thing with arsenal fans but if u know u know…#thingswedoforlove