Nkjee19

My sense of humor

[Nkjee19 @nkjee19]

@akomeahmessiah adɛn w’ani afira anaa?😂
Tackle bɛn na Romero ɛkɔ yɛ aa woka ma ayɛ huhuuhu saa no Eii

[WONTUMI SPORTS OFFICIAL @Wontumi_Sports]

#Wontumisportsbuffet : “The officiating was very poor and the referee wasn’t fair to Egypt at all” -Messiah.

[Nkjee19 @nkjee19]

Till now people think Stephen Appiah’s header crossed the line before Suarez blocked it with his hand.

[Quame Jnr @quame_jnr1]

Adey kae 2006, Brazil score we 3 clean goals but the whole country was convinced all the goals be offside
Emotions be some stupid thing eh😭😭😭

[Nkjee19 @nkjee19]

You’re a sports journalist and you’re emphatically saying you’ve never seen VAR go as far back in a sequence leading to a goal to disallow the goal? Ahh😂

[Gary Al-Smith @garyalsmith]

🚨 Quick thoughts: I was with delirious Argentine fans in the stands at full time, but...

I think Egypt can, rightly, feel cheated by inconsistent VAR calls — a blight on a truly wonderful (potential) World Cup classic.

[Nkjee19 @nkjee19]

@KayDee92868850 Oh now we are comparing to the 2022 final incident?🤣🤣

[Nkjee19 @nkjee19]

@KayDee92868850 You watch that and think it’s a penalty? Ahh asɛm bɛn ni🤣

[Nkjee19 @nkjee19]

@KayDee92868850 How is this not a foul?

[Nkjee19 @nkjee19]

@theyawofosu @rayganofficial What’s racist about the actions in the video?

[Nkjee19 @nkjee19]

They should sack him for not taking accountability for their inability to defend a 2 goal lead.
Wey nonsense chat this

[Gary Al-Smith @garyalsmith]

🚨 Egypt coach Hossam Hassan post-game:

"I will say what's on my mind regardless of consequence, this was clearly a rigged match and the whole world saw it. And I want to say one more thing: if they want [Argentina] to win so bad, why call everyone to come and participate?"

[Nkjee19 @nkjee19]

@quophy_kidd In your view that incident wasn’t checked because the ref wasn’t sent to screen or wetin??

[Nkjee19 @nkjee19]

Point to one dubious decision and let’s see how you’d explain using the rules of the game without sounding confused.

[Michael Akomeah @akomeahmessiah]

You can appreciate greatness and be honest about dubious decisions too…
The ref made it all about him

[Nkjee19 @nkjee19]

They all earned their place on merit.
Are you a teenager or something?

[Sarpong @dpksarpong]

we have to be clear on this: Abedi Ayew earned his place in the national team by merit. Dede Ayew arguably did. Jordan Ayew didn’t.

[Nkjee19 @nkjee19]

Gideon Mensah wayɛ mo aduro anaa?

[Jude Duncan @mensaduncan]

GIDEON MENSAH

THOMAS PARTEY

MARVIN SENAYA

JEROME OPOKU

we won’t forget 🙏🏾🇬🇭❤️

[Nkjee19 @nkjee19]

He is not the best in that Argentina XI

[EBL @EBL2017]

Lisandro Martinez.

The best centre half in the ENTIRE sport with the ball at his foot.

[Nkjee19 @nkjee19]

This is top tier

[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.

[Nkjee19 @nkjee19]

We still gonna parry😂

[Zionfelix @onua_zionfelix]

We caught up with fine babes n America, Charlie Dior and cohorts after the Croatia-Ghana game in Philadelphia

[Nkjee19 @nkjee19]

2011 Copa America winners.
Cavani brace against Portugal in 2018.
Falaa win against Ghana in 2022.

[ACCRA MAYOR 🥲🥷 @0panaa_1]

Ever since that Suárez handball against Ghana, Uruguay have known no peace. Next time they’ll know which country not to mess with. MORE POWDER 😂🔥

[Nkjee19 @nkjee19]

What are we looking at here?

[Nonfa KING @ajeezayGH]

Benjamin Asare’s Calmness in the Goal poles is really something special!!
That last save tho !!

[Nkjee19 @nkjee19]

@dcnwigwe @SebC__ Be serious abeg

[Nkjee19 @nkjee19]

Performative nonsense

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

🚨☎️ The moment when Marcos Senesi got a call from Lionel Scaloni.

What a video.