๐๐๐! Breidis Prescott knocked out Amir Khan in 51 seconds ๐คฏ
โช 15 years ago today, one of the biggest shocks in modern British boxing history ๐ณ
The most expensive sports event in history
80,000 fans. $11,000 average ticket price. That's the World Cup Final in America featuring Messi!
Thank you Jerry from @ZoomexOfficial for showing me this crazy world. My first and last World Cup match in 2026!
Leo Messiโs letter to all Argentinians the night before the World Cup Final. ๐ฉต๐ค๐
โThe most beautiful thing about all these years was ๐ง๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ, ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ซ๐ ๐ฃ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐๐ฒโ.
โSharing day-to-day life with this group, competing together, picking ourselves up in the difficult moments, and ๐๐ง๐ฃ๐จ๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฉโ.
โThanks to each one of my teammates, to the coaching staff, and to all the great people who work every day to keep this National Team as a ๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฒโ.
โWhatever happens tomorrow, this group has already written ๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ง๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐๐ญ and that no one will be able to eraseโ.
โ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐, ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โ.
Pay attention to the pronouns. "We" "Us" "This group"... And he has 8 goals and 4 assists alone ohhh ๐๐๐
There's a reason Bruno Fernandez and co would rather not win the world cup at all than win it with Homelander... 2 weeks later he'll be on Piers Morgan reminding the world how "he" won it all by himself...
Lionel Messi now has 1๏ธโฃ2๏ธโฃ World Cup assists, more than anyone else
Lionel Messi has 2๏ธโฃ1๏ธโฃ World Cup goals, more than anyone else
The GOAT discussion is no longer a discussion ๐
โPosterity will judge our generation for entertaining the faux comparison between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as though it were a genuine rivalry.โ
Mehn, at some point, even if you donโt like him, you have to admit that Messi is the greatest football player in history. This guy is not real at all.
If you meet any supposed football fan who places any footballer ahead of Lionel Messi, donโt engage it. It would amount to debating whether the earth is flat or spherical.
I was so poor in Mathematics that I was nicknamed "I don't know Math (sic)" in Class 6 because I gave that as answer to my teacher when he asked me a question in class.
JSS 1-3, same story.
I think I had P7 in it in Junior WAEC.
SS 1-2, similar story.
Then in January 1999, second term into SS2, with GCE staring me in the face, I attended a private lesson. The teacher taught me Factorization and I realized I got it. His explanation was spot on.
For the first time in my life, I understood a math topic clearly.
Then I went back to JSS 1 math texbook for personal study and finished it within a week. Then moved to JSS 2 and finished it within 2 weeks. Then JSS 3 math, then SS1, then SS2.
Then to GCE past questions.
I sat for GCE in August 1999 or so during holiday after SSS2 and made a B2.
Then WAEC in SSS3 in May 2000 and got B2 again (felt bad for this because I wanted A1).
Meanwhile, I saw that many of my school mates in Science classes (who did Further Math) did not even have B2 that I had in Math in WAEC and that prompted me to enrol for another private lesson in Further Math. "If I could score higher in Math than many science students that did Further math, I should be able to do Further math too".
I practiced a couple of topics in Further Math - Calculus, Partial Fraction etc - while waiting for OAU to resume, knowing I would need Mathematics to do well in Economics that I got admission for.
Math soon became my favourite subject. Needless to say I had A in all but one of the Math courses I did from Year 1 to graduation in Ife.
From being poor in Math to it becoming my best subject, it was a comeback I never saw coming. A turnaround that contributed largely to who I am today (my eventual grade in Economics helped largely by my scores in Math courses).
In 2022, 23 years after, I searched for and reconnected with the private teacher that saved me in SS 2 in 1999.