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Sharuko on Saturday REMARKABLY, parts of their charade which, for a fleeting moment this week turned them into some obscure reality TV stars as their madness played out live on television, even managed to produce a show whose snippets were part of the menu for SuperSport’s Soccer Africa programme on Thursday night.
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Sharuko On Saturday ON February 4, 2013, Super Bowl XLVII — an American football showdown between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers — exploded into life in New Orleans with 108.7 million Americans tuning in to watch.
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SHARUKO ON SATURDAY THE striking irony of it all was that the boisterous party at the Camp Nou got underway the minute it became evident to the army of Barcelona fans that their dreams for a second straight home Champions League miracle had been shattered by an impregnable black-and-white Italian Wall.
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THE striking irony of it all was that the boisterous party at the Camp Nou got underway the minute it became evident to the army of Barcelona fans that their dreams for a second straight home Champions League miracle had been shattered by an impregnable black-and-white Italian Wall. Rather than abandon their players, after it […]
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WHETHER by design or default, the sporting gods had to make sure that the Democratic Republic of Congo would be a defining feature in this compelling tale — a football version of a titanic boxing showdown 43 years ago which is widely considered as the greatest sporting event of the 20th Century.
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Sharuko on Saturday IT might have taken us about two decades, but like true Warriors, we never lost hope and bided our time knowing that one fine day we would inflict revenge and embarrass a football emperor just when he was pleading for a retirement package wrapped in both decency and glittering golden ribbons.
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Sharuko on Saturday DONALD TRUMP has built a political career, which has taken him all the way to the White House, on a foundation in which he, among other things, finds it very fashionable to describe American political journalists as a bunch of very dishonest people.
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LIKE BIRDS OF THE SAME FEATHER, PASUWA AND RANIERI HAVE BEEN FLOCKING TOGETHER
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BUT EVEN IN THAT DARKNESS, THE MAGIC OF THIS ROONEY USED TO PROVIDE A SPARKLE OF DEFIANCE, THE RAINBOW OF PROMISE FOR A
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Sharuko On Saturday TWO days ago, I turned 47, just three years short of a Golden Jubilee when, God willing, I will complete the magical mark of half-a-century of years in this beautiful garden of the living.
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Sharuko on Saturday A lot of you folks were probably deep in your sleep in the early hours of Monday morning, having been drained by the drama of a classic 2017 Nations Cup final as another epic football thriller unfolded in Houston, Texas, complete with a spectacular live performance from Lady Gaga.
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Sharuko On Saturday FOR Ghanaian football legend, Sammy Kuffour, this was as good as it gets — an unpolished football diamond of immense beauty — a stunning gem clearly crying out for the big stage of Europe where it could be showcased. And crucially where its true value could be realised. Kuffour should know, after all he […]
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Sharuko on Saturday ON the long flight home from Abidjan, just hours after Dynamos’ quest for the immortality of becoming the first Zimbabwean football club to be crowned champions of Africa had wilted in the intensity of the Ivorian heat, Sunday Chidzambwa asked me to take a seat beside him to reflect on the events […]
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THE beauty, when it was paraded on that Sunday night under the glare of the Franceville moonlight, was something to behold, images so beautiful, so charming, so intoxicating it made all of us very, very proud to be members of this blessed nation of indomitable Warriors.
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IN a year’s time, God willing, I will mark the 20th anniversary of my first dance covering the Nations Cup finals — breaking new ground for local football writers when I landed in the Burkinabe capital of Ouagadougou in ’98.