Morning devotions in Nigerian households were the original breeding ground for indirect jabs.
Your mum will be praying for you in presence of everyone and randomly say, “Father remove every spirit of laziness, stubbornness and wasted potential from his life,” and suddenly you’re wondering when you offended her.
You can buy referees, you can fix matches, you can hide agent fees, you can breach all FFP rules but you can't buy either loyalty or respect because they are not given. THEY ARE EARNED
Ye tells the crowd at his Turkey concert that he broke the record for the largest ticketed stadium event in history, with 118,000 tickets sold 👀
“I just want to tell y’all, we just broke the record of 118,000, largest stadium performance of all time.”
“My relationship with my club began the same way it does for most football fans: before I was old enough to understand what I was getting myself into. When I was nine, my uncle introduced me to a team with a cannon on its shirt, a grizzled captain named Tony Adams, and players like Nwankwo Kanu who had been born in Africa but now lived somewhere else, just like me. Arsenal felt familiar before I even understood why.
“And then there was the manager, a man who I initially thought had been named after the club and then believed that somehow the club must have been named after him. Arsene Wenger may have struggled with his raincoat, but rarely with his orchestra. The football his teams played sang.
“But what was once the nostalgia of the past has become the beauty of the present.
“We won. We are champions of England. And we are just one game away from being crowned champions of Europe too.”
@ZohranKMamdani, mayor of New York City, writes for The Athletic on what Arsenal means to him.
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