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Sharuko on Saturday WE call him the Smiling Assassin and Knowledge Musona, the ultimate sniper whose infectious smile usually cheers the spirits of our national game and whose goals always script success stories for our Warriors, scored twice in the Belgian Cup on Wednesday night.
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Sharuko on Saturday MY social media platforms are an explosive interactive arena, but I have to agree they have never exploded, as far as I can remember, as much as they have been raging this week in the wake of that farcical decision to try and nullify Christian Epoupa Ntouba’s red card.
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Sharuko on Saturday WE didn’t know it back then, being mere toddlers who were totally reliant on the comfort of their mothers to survive the first year of our introduction into this world, after nine months of being shielded away from its brutality, in the bellies of these very special people.
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Sharuko on Saturday IN the summer of 2001, Manchester United were celebrating winning a SEVENTH title in NINE seasons with only Blackburn, in ’95, and Arsenal in ’98, the only clubs to break the Red Devils’ ruthless monopoly in the English Premiership championship race.
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Sharuko on Saturday ON Tuesday, a massive global football party, which has been in the making for a quarter-of-a-century, finally exploded into life — complete with historical fireworks — as the world celebrated the day the English Premiership turned 25.
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I HAVE always had a romantic attachment to the English Premiership because, more than being just a blood-and-thunder theatre of football attrition, its fascinating adventure provides me with a tracker of my journey in the trenches of this profession. Long before it became this multi-billion dollar industry, where one of its clubs can now afford to […]
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LIKE BALOTELLI AT OLD TRAFFORD SIX YEARS AGO, WE SHOULD ASK: ‘WHY ALWAYS US?’ NO one excreted as much venom as we did in the painful soul-searching exercise that followed our first experience of dealing with the intensity of the pain that comes with seeing a CHAN qualifying adventure being ended prematurely before reaching the […]
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Sharuko on Saturday ON November 13, 1861, an American priest, Reverend M R Watkinson sent a letter to the United States Treasury, petitioning the department to add a powerful statement that recognised “Almighty God in some form on our coins’’.
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Sharuko on Saturday IT was a relatively short drive, from Harare’s Central Business District to Highlands and on Monday nights, the madness that usually characterises the traffic jungle of our capital would have long died down, replaced by the intoxicating beauty of a city at peace with itself.
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Sharuko on Saturday FOR a fleeting moment, he somehow out-sprinted Lloyd Mutasa, which was itself as huge a personal achievement as the one that had sent his emotions exploding and igniting this fiery fire inside him to run in that fading winter sunshine.
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Sharuko on Saturday THE cover photo on Ovidy Karuru’s Facebook page isn’t about him being presented with one of the numerous man-of-the-match awards he has won at the 2017 COSAFA Castle Cup where his Warriors’ second coming has been as explosive as it has been very, very beautiful.
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Sharuko On Saturday EXACTLY 50 years ago, on May 25, 1967, Scottish giants Celtic made history when they became the first British club to be crowned champions of Europe after beating Italian powerhouse Inter Milan 2-1 in the final in Lisbon.
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SHARUKO ON SATURDAY ONE of my enduring passion has always been reading, a love affair that probably was started by my late father, back in the days he used to spend hours teaching me how to read and write before I had even enrolled for my first grade.
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THE last time the Warriors were home on Nations Cup duty, they were given a raw deal by the Public Address announcer who somehow didn’t trigger a massive National Sports Stadium outdoor party by broadcasting the news that we had finally ended our 10-year wait to qualify for the 2017 AFCON finals. That was exactly […]
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SHARUKO ON SATURDAY TIME indeed flies and on Monday a year would have passed since that glorious afternoon when our Warriors finally ended a decade-long wait for another dance with continental football aristocracy.