Toure: Why Kanu Was Never An Inspiration To Me At Arsenal 

Hahahaha @ CollinID

Now I understand your plight. Now I see where you are coming from and why your though processes are shaped the way they are. LMAO

Now let me school you a little:

Mechanical Engineers don’t repair cars they don’t even hold tools. Mechanical engineers design mechanical systems. Anything that moves with little or no human effort or any man-made product you see around you has an input (either at the design, fabrication or manufacturing stage) of a mechanical engineer. Your roadside mechanics are not engineers, they are not even technologists, they are craftsmen….at most technicians. And most of them pass through years of apprenticeship before the graduate (what they call freedom in local parlance). During their freedom, their Ogas give them a certificate…that certificate is their badge, it is their license to practice. Even so, the first years of their apprenticeship is usually spent learning the basics, names of tools, changing tyres, washing cars after they’ve been repaired, going to buy food for their masters…..not even fixing cars. So if you are trying to justify Yobo’s appointment with that analogy….you are very very wrong. Even you as a person will NEVER give your car to a mechanic that you know is inexperienced….unless you are ready to buy another one. Even the so-called experienced ones screw up people’s cars nowadays, not to talk of the inexperienced ones…LMAO. The ones that run away from their masters to startup their own workshop without ‘doing freedom’ how do they always end up…? I’ll leave you to answer that.
Pls juxtapose that with coaching. LMAO

Secondly, except it is a quack university or a fake university (like many of the private owned universities dotting the space back in Nigeria), there is no where in the world where a fresh graduate ( even if he has a first class 100/100 GPA) is employed in the position of an assistant lecturer. NO WHERE…go and get your facts right. You must have at least a Master’s degree or be close to having one before you can find yourself in that position. And you must have at least a Doctorate or a master’s degree with years of academic and research EXPERIENCE before you can become occupy the cadre of a full lecturer. Fresh graduates are only appointed as GRADUATE or TEACHING ASSISTANTs (more like 2nd assistant coach of the U17 national team) where their responsibilities are limited to just taking tutorials, invigilating tests, helping to record marks and other basic stuff. They are never given subjects to lecture, while they are given a timeframe to obtain their masters degree otherwise their graduate assistantship will be terminated. The academia is way too organized to be thought of in the same light as our clueless NFF. Even assistant lecturers (or junior lecturers as they are called is some countries) are only allowed to handle lower level subjects and mostly allowed to be students project co-supervisors (like U17 & U20 coaches) not higher levels/final years or post-grad lecturers or main project supervisors.

Appointing Yobo as the super eagles asst coach is like making a fresh graduate the Asst Dean of the faculty simply because he graduated with a first class……LMAO. that’s how ridiculous it is. What miracles do you expect him to perform….???

If Yobo likes, let him be in 15 world cups and win 25 nations cups….but even his mates who won world cups, won champions leagues, won major trophies, played for the biggest clubs under the best coaches all went back to classroom to learn coaching and didn’t use “yes-sir, yes-sir” to start their coaching careers from the top after obtaining their coaching badges. Even Kolo Toure our African brother with a more illustrious career than Yobo didn’t wait for CIV FA to sponsor him to coaching school or placate him with a national team job.

Those public drivers you see who learnt driving just by being conductors is the reason why driving on Nigerian roads are a hell today and why so many lives are lost daily. It’s the reason why Nigerian Nigerian roads are full of madmen behind driving wheels and why you have a higher chance of dying on a Nigerian road than dying of AIDS. In countries where you are properly trained before being licensed to drive, you get to an intersection where there is no traffic light or warden and you will not hear the sound of a hooting horn nor will you see a collision and yet traffic will still be flowing seamlessly.

Our animalistic ways of doing things and justifying them in Nigeria is the reason why we remain a shithole (apologies to Mr Trump) till today.

And talking about Mr Odegbami, he remains a national hero, I don’t know football more than him because I never played football to his level…but I know something as simple as the fact that just 100 caps as a footballer doesn’t in anyway qualify you as a national team coach unless qualified coaches have run out of supply in the country. If he himself could attest that just 15mins with Otto Gloria taught him what decades of professional football on the pitch didn’t teach him, then I wonder why he stooped so low to be used as a tool for the sham we witnessed over a month ago. He should have known that his good name is FAR BETTER THAN silver or gold.

And talking of my achievements in life, even though I never made it as a full fledged professional footballer, not because I wasn’t good (I played semi-pro as a goalkeeper while studying), I’ve made it to the peak of my profession, both in the academia and in industry. With all sense of humility and without trying to blow my trumpet nor boasting, CSN space would not be large enough to take my citations. If a sports media company chooses to appoint me as an editor today, it wouldn’t be solely because I have come to run my mouth on CSN 100 times. It will rather be because I have sat on the editorial boards of many publications (academic & secular), have being a researcher for close to two decades, played some appreciable level of organized sports (and still indirectly involved in the game) and have a good knowledge and history of the game of soccer globally.

And if it still pains you that Egypt has more than double the number of AFCONs Nigeria has and that Ighalo is one of 4 all time top scorers for Nigeria, pls look for the nearest beer parlour and drink away your sorrows.

It is because of misgivings like appointing someone who isn’t a coach to the highest coaching job in the land, non qualified drivers driving public buses and putting passengers lives at risk and quack technicians operating everywhere, yet Nigerians justifying it because it suits their sentiments, that Nigeria is at its worst state tody despite all we have. That is why we are still looking for somebody’s WAEC results up and down till today, yet we expect sound governance from him.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.