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THERE are some special moments, in life and in football, made only for some special magicians and there are some special moments which only these special magicians can make. When time appears to stand still, the world watches in complete disbelief and everything else doesn’t appear to matter at all. Where these great magicians, with […]
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TWENTY years ago, George Tillman released his movie, a biopic of the Notorious B.I.G. — the life and times of an extremely fat boy from Brooklyn, New York, who became the king of rap music. The boy they teased at school because of his weight and dark features, who later, as a man, turned all […]
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SO, where do we start in this pilgrimage into a fascinating world of controversy — a goal scored by a ball-boy in Brazil, another scored by a referee in Turkey or the one scored by a ghost in the Gambia in the 2005 CAF Under-17 Championships final? Since we watch a lot of English football, […]
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SOMEWHERE in the media blitz that accompanied the horror of a plane crash which killed 157 people in Ethiopia this week, I read the touching story of a newly-wed Indian who perished just minutes after texting her husband. Shaika Garg had tied the knot three months earlier to Soumya Battacharya, after a three-year romance that […]
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IN September 1971, John Lennon dragged the world into fantasyland using the charm of a remarkable song that remains a benchmark for both creativity and positivity in the music industry to execute his mission. Never before, and never since, has a song of such simplicity provided such ferocity in wooing the world to embark on […]
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FORTY years ago, a huge and colourful army of 50 000 people poured into Rufaro, not to watch a classic football showdown, but to celebrate the high-profile wedding of singer Zexie Manatsa and his wife Stella. The event was such a huge box office hit among the residents of the capital.
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ON Tuesday, a nice guy who loved football, and like all good fellows supported Manchester United, died — shot in cold blood in the latest terror attack to hit Nairobi. James Oduor, commonly known as “Odu Cobra,” was a fine Kenyan blogger who founded Wadau TV and had a passion for grassroots football. He was […]
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FOUR months have passed since l last penned this blog — good riddance to utter rubbish to some and a lengthy unbearable absence of a familiar voice for others. Probably a welcome break from mediocrity for some and, certainly, a frustrating period for others who have become religious followers of all the crazy stuff I […]
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SHARUKO ON SATURTAY THE giant grain silos at Lion’s Den – where a fiery explosion this week killed five people and sent shock waves throughout this little community – always provided a reminder that it was time for us to turn right. It meant branching from the main highway, which had taken us from Harare […]
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EARLIER this week, something hugely significant happened in the world of music when the King of Pop, Michael Jackson’s smash-hit album “Thriller,” was finally toppled from its position as the best-selling musical album of-all-time.
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EVERYTHING has a beginning and an ending — after all, every bird that flies has to land at some point, every plane in the sky has to touch down and every human being, just like all the animals, has to die one day.
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THE last time Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium hosted such a huge contingent of English fans was exactly 10 years ago and about 20 000 of them remained in this arena, long after the match had ended, to celebrate a massive victory for their beloved football team.
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HE walked with the majesty of a Warrior and the indomitable force of a Beast — his boy in his left hand and his girl in his right hand, to be greeted by a thunderous sound of thousands of delirious fans packed inside Bloemfontein’s Toyota Stadium. A proud family dressed in the green-and-gold colours of […]
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ONE of the refreshing dominant themes from the messages posted by the Warriors, who were in South Africa for the COSAFA Cup, has been their praise for God for having been there with them when it mattered, most during an adventure where heaven and hell collided. A campaign where they were dragged to the gates […]
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THEY say true Manchester United fans should never see anything good about Liverpool and they are probably right — those vile chants mocking our players who perished in the Munich air crash in 1958 are as toxic as they are sickening. But we are not saints either because, in our retaliation, we lost the class […]