QUOTE(olumide @ Oct 11 2005, 01:17 AM)
1.What makes my comments childish and yours relevant.
2.you seem to want to override every single response written in Africa thread with your own thoughts and opinions. Zambia have not made the world cup ever. Not one time. They have not won the ANC either. So Im saying who are you to poke fun at anyone elses football program. Especially those who have been to the world cup three times before. Cant say I see anything wrong with that. Because its the truth.
3. I know you watch these forum but does that does not give you the right to criticize me. It is late now I will rest
1. What makes your comments childish? The assertion that just because Zambia have never been to the WC deprives me of any legitimacy to comment about Africa's WC representatives. I mean how much more ridiculous can one's reasoning be?
2. Wrong again. What I am doing is challenging some of the comments that have been made about (in particular) your country's failure to make it to Germany next year. And I'm doing this with facts. Nigeria failed to beat Angola BOTH home and away. FACT. The so called big teams have achieved nothing from their perrenial appearances in past WCs. FACT. (with the exception of Cameroon in 1990, Senegal also did it last time out, but they were not an African power by then). I may be giving my opinions as you've put it, but I'm basing them on the facts on the ground.
3. I'm not criticising
you. I'm simply challenging your views with the facts on the ground. If you can't handle that, too bad.
I have nothing against Nigeria as a team and I know they can lay a credible claim to be Africa's best. But it pissess me off for people like you to SEEMINGLY IMPLY that Nigeria's failure to qualify for Germany is due to some injustice (i.e. head to head rule). Rather than critically examining the underlying reasons why Nigeria are in this position, you choose to cry foul like some 6-year old who's just had his toy stolen. For the last time, Nigeria haven't qualified because they failed to beat Angola at home. Simple as.