Alabi Samuel BigSamm

[Olawale Adigun @SportsAdigun]

Ikorodu City wan rage bait me this morning with that nonsense they did yesterday. But let me allow.
You could Famz the Politician, then suddenly you had a brain fart moment and realised his audience were taking advantage of it, which is not even true.
What happened to trying to help to grow the league by attracting people like him.
The club's state Governor as a matter of fact postponed your biggest Derby in decades because of a political prayer meeting, not one post expressing angst especially for a "privately run club".
To make matters worse, the DJ Spinall who has been told to spin this for the club is making a mess of it.
At the end, we all know what we're doing....

Let's all enjoy our Lifestyle this week!!!

[Alabi Samuel BigSamm @BiggestSamm]

@HIZZYJOE06 @grok what is the name of this movie

[Buchi Laba @Buchi_Laba]

Who da fvck are you to tell Jimi Disu to shut up! I Have seen disrespect but this is the Height! Nonsense!!!

[Ojora Babatunde @ojbsports]

Esther Okoronkwo faces racist abuse on Instagram after alleging Marriott Hotel staff in Casablanca stole money from Super Falcons players’ rooms.

This is completely unacceptable. No player should be subjected to racist abuse for speaking out about a serious allegation.

CAF and LOC must take this matter seriously, investigate the abuse, and ensure players are protected from discrimination and hate.

[Alabi Samuel BigSamm @BiggestSamm]

@22abdsalamJnr @9ja_Ballers Pls Fc Robo's case is different because they run a league team

[Alabi Samuel BigSamm @BiggestSamm]

@QualityQuadry Pls, how can we watch the match

[Alabi Samuel BigSamm @BiggestSamm]

@NGSuperEagles I can’t find the scorer on the team starting 11

[Alabi Samuel BigSamm @BiggestSamm]

@NGSuperEagles Where can we watch the match

[Alabi Samuel BigSamm @BiggestSamm]

@official_esclub Where can we watch the match

[Alabi Samuel BigSamm @BiggestSamm]

@MrCharlesky Send details

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Wholesome 🥰

[Sofascore Football @Sofascore]

🇪🇬 | Farewell to a King

Most goals in the Premier League since Mohamed Salah joined Liverpool:

🥇 191 – Mohamed Salah
🥈 135 – Harry Kane

Most assists in the Premier League since Mohamed Salah joined Liverpool:

🥇 93 – Mohamed Salah
🥈 91 – Kevin De Bruyne

Most goal involvements in the Premier League since Mohamed Salah joined Liverpool:

🥇 284 – Mohamed Salah
🥈 173 – Heung-min Son

It's been an absolute pleasure, Mo! 🫡

[Squawka @Squawka]

Mohamed Salah for Liverpool across all competitions:

◉ 442 games
◉ 257 goals
◉ 120 assists

🏆🏆 Premier League
🏆🏆 EFL Cup
🏆 FA Cup
🏆 Champions League
🏆 UEFA Super Cup
🏆 FIFA Club World Cup
🏆 Community Shield

🏅🏅🏅🏅 Premier League Golden Boot
🏅🏅🏅 PFA Player’s POTS
🏅🏅🏅 FWA Footballer of the Year
🏅🏅 Premier League POTS
🏅🏅 Premier League Playmaker Award
🏅 Puskas Award

The Reds’ all-time top goalscorer in the Premier League, the player with the joint-most Premier League assists for Liverpool alongside Steven Gerrard and the player with the most goals + assists ever recorded in a 38-game Premier League season.

The Egyptian King, a Liverpool legend. 👑

[Premier League @premierleague]

An emotional moment in front of the Kop for Mohamed Salah 🥺

[Super Eagles Supporters Club @official_esclub]

WHERE WILL THE NEXT SUPER EAGLES COME FROM 🤔💭

Yesterday, Alex Iwobi turned 30. One of our most dependable players, has entered a new decade.
Moses Simon is 30. Paul Onuachu is 31. Wilfred Ndidi is 29. Ademola Lookman is 28. Victor Osimhen is 27, and so the list goes on for the majority of our best players, they are all ageing together at the same time.
So when these players are gone, who comes next?

Our Golden Eaglets and Flying Eagles used to be among the best in the world, winning five U17 World Cup titles, producing Osimhen, Iheanacho, Kenneth Omeruo, Chukwueze and others who graduated straight into the Super Eagles. But look at us now. Nigeria is no longer feared at U17 or U20 level. Our grassroots football is in disarray. The street football, the school competitions, the inter-house sports, the local leagues where these talents used to be discovered are all dying. And when the pipeline dries up at youth level, the senior team eventually suffers.

Then there is our NPFL. Remember Sunday Mba? A player taken straight from the Nigerian league who became the hero of AFCON 2013. But at AFCON 2025, not a single NPFL player made Eric Chelle’s squad, this is not a good look for the league and you cannot blame the coach. The standard of our local league leave a lot to be desired. It is good however good to know that Coach Eric Chelle is beginning to pay more attention to our local players especially with the upcoming unity cup, but this must not end here, we must develop a clear pathway for our local players to play at the highest level for our Super Eagles.

So what is our only remaining option? Foreign based players of Nigerian descent. And thank God for them, because they have carried this team on their backs. But even that pipeline is under threat. Michael Olise plays for France. Bukayo Saka, England. Eberechi Eze also England. These are just a drop in the ocean when compared to the pool of Nigeria talents abroad who could wear the green-white-green, but whom we lost, but that isn’t even the point. We still have loads and loads of foreign based players who can represent us. But how do we bring them here, what exactly do we use to convince the next generation of foreign-born Nigerian players to choose Nigeria? Is it our league? Is it our facilities? Is it the promise of a World Cup? Is it the money?, what edge do we have over other, European countries to have a player, say William Osula chose to play for us, especially when they also get call ups from other nations senior national teams.
This is a wake-up call. The federation must fix our grassroots. Our NPFL must be revived to reduce over dependence on foreign bred players.
And we must develop a serious strategy to attract foreign-born players of Nigerian descent, otherwise people like Iwobi who chose to play for us years ago will not take same decision if the circumstances presented itself today.

[Obong Colin NOT Collins @ColinUdoh]

There are a number of points I would like to make on this CAF Appeals Committee ruling.

First, let’s clear the air on this Senegal leaving the pitch for 15 minutes argument. There is nothing in the CAF Afcon Regulations that specifically state how much time a team may be off the pitch for them to forfeit the game.
Second, there is nothing in the IFAB Laws of the Game addressing a team walking off and/abandoning a game.

With those pieces of housekeeping done, let’s look at the actual regulations. And I will focus on Art 82 as it is the main crux of the issue. Art 84 is simply the sanction for violation.

ARTICLE 82
If, for any reason whatsoever, a team withdraws from the competition or does not report for a match, or refuses to play or LEAVES THE GROUND before the regular end of the match without the authorisation of the referee, it shall be considered looser and shall be eliminated for good from the current competition. The same shall apply for the teams previously disqualified by decision of CAF.

There are two offenses here that Senegal MAY have committed. The first is “refusing to play” the second is “leaves the ground”

REFUSING TO PLAY
It could be argued by the language of the Regulation that that does not apply to Senegal because by starting and playing the game, they did not “refuse to play”.
Looking at the chronology of the wording, it starts with

- withdraws from the competition
- does not report for a match
- refuses to play
- leaves the ground

The progression is clear:
- not appearing for the competition
- appearing but not showing up to play
- showing up but refusing to play
- and then leaving after

If we go by the letter and progression there, then we can say that the only one that applies to Senegal is the last one.

If the language had been “refuses to continue play”, with the operative word there being “continue” that might present a stronger case.
But this might just be me splitting hairs.

Now to the “leaves the ground” part. There are 16 mentions of “field” or “field of play” in these AFCON Regulations in reference to the pitch. Here are two examples:

ART 16.20.2
The match is restarted with the same players on the FIELD and with the same substitutes available when the match was interrupted;

ART 42.3
A player expelled from the FIELD by the referee is automatically suspended for the following match in the framework of the same competition, without prejudice to other sanctions that might be imposed upon him subsequently.

Mentions of ground always refer to the venue, not the pitch. This distinction was clearly not accidental.

Senegal may have left the field, but they did not leave the ground. So if we follow that argument, then we can see that there would have been no reason for the game to be abandoned as Senegal did not leave the ground. Only the field.

Clear distinction

Finally, we go to the outcome of the game and the authority of the referee to determine the result

LAW 5
The decisions of the referee regarding facts connected with play, including
whether or not a goal is scored and the result of the match, are final. The
decisions of the referee, and all other match officials, must always be respected.

“The referee may not change a restart decision on realising that it is incorrect or on the advice of another match official IF PLAY HAS RESTARTED or if play has restarted or the referee has signalled the end of the first or second half (including extra time) and left the field of play or abandoned the match.

Clearly, even if we agree that the referee made a mistake in not abandoning the game, the fact that they completed the second half, and played two additional periods of extra time before coming to a result, precludes anything else.

The referee restarted the game, it was played to a conclusion and there was a result.

Senegal won. Morocco lost.

C’est finis

QED

[🇳🇬 Super Eagles @NGSuperEagles]

We stand with Ademola Lookman
@Alookman_

[Center for Food Safety and Agricultural Research @cefsarintl]

Don’t be fooled, GMOs are not about feeding us. They’re about owning us.

If we lose our seeds, we lose our freedom. This is a new kind of colonization, and it must be stopped.

Join the campaign. #SayNoToGMOs

#BanGMOS #RejectGMOs #gmos #StopGmos

[NGSuper_Falcons @NGSuper_Falcons]

CHAMPIONS OF AFRICA FOR THE 10TH TIME! 🏆🇳🇬

Tell your neighbors, tell the world — the Super Falcons reign supreme again!

#MissionX #SoarSuperFalcons #WAFCON2024 #Champions #MORNGA

[Soar Africa! @SSE_NGA]

Super Falcons with a dramatic second-half turnaround to win #WAFCON2024!