Talk:F.C. Nania

Soapboxing removed from article
I have removed the section that follows from the article, as it appears to be soapboxing. Cheers! bd2412 T 15:34, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

"how we can be so unintelligent about our corruption and expect the world not not to notice, and then turn around and act indignant when the western press label us corrupt and dishonest is beyond me. honestly.

most of you will never have heard of Abedi Pele, but back in the 1990s he was perhaps the leading ghanaian football player. he's retired now, and he runs a football club, called Sekondi Nania. well, last season his team needed to win a crucial game to gain promotion from the second division of ghana's football league, to its premier division. his team were locked in contest with the Cape Coast Great Mariners, another team, with which they were tied on points. basically, one team needed to move upwards at the expense of the other.

so it was crunch time. both teams were playing other teams, and needed to win at all cost. what do you do in such situations? why, you dig deep and motivate the players. you find a winning strategy and employ it. you promise the players a naked massage by 7 beautiful maidens each if they produced the win. you offer to kill cows for their whole villages; you promise them chieftaincy titles and luxury bicycles (this is the ghanaian second division, mind). you promise and pledge. heck, you offer to wed your daughter to the highest goal scorer or something (i'm just kidding, please put down the knife!)

what you don't do of course is attempt to fix the results of the game by bribing your opponents. and if you decide to go that route, you would at least be intelligent about it. afterall, the italians and french have shown us that noone is above match-fixing these days. and even they got caught, which shows the wisdom involved in such options anyway.

what you definitely do NOT do is act out a masquerade that ridicules the intelligence of your entire nation. somehow or the other, that's what Sekondi Nania FC and Cape Coast Great Mariners decided to do. on match day, they both managed to produce Rugby Football scorelines; Sekondi Nania FC beat Okwawu United 31-0 (yes, they scored 31 goals in 90 minutes) and Cape Coast Great Mariners thrashed Mighty Jets 28-0 (yes, 59 goals in one day). how stupid did they think everyone watching was? i reckon they must have decided to re-enact what happened that faithful day at Rugby school, and allowed their players to hand deliver the ball to the goal-line, never mind using feet and such skill. its up to you to figure out the right combination of field goals and tries that would have produced both scorelines. i'll offer you an incentive: if you get it right, i will offer you the hand of my goat in marriage.

i promise i didn't make this one up, the results are here; and there's a nice little story here as well. so why do we then get angry when they call us thieves and fraudsters? why, when what this really proves is that some people are so unintelligent that they can assume that noone will notice when they act the fool in public. the ghanaian FA have since acted, and handed out bans and fines. but i think that's inadequate. sometimes there is a case for corporal punishment of grown men. all the people involved should have been frog-marched and then flogged, before being made to lie down in stinky, smelly poo for a whole day. then they should have been told to stand in front of a black-board on national tv, to write the following lines: "i will never assume that everyone is as stupid as me again. i confess that i am a retarded dolt with zilch common-sense." over and over until the board was full. then its back to the yard for another day of filling buckets from a distant tap with only a tablespoon.

these are the sort of men who make it hard for you to be nigerian or ghanaian in today's world. this is on a par with a governor whose state budget runs into the billions of naira monthly, but who has nothing to show in the way of achievements after 8 whole years in office. the minister who tried to pass off a 3 million naira project as a 300 million naira job is no better. and why, in a nation of phds, lawyers, doctors, professors, nobel prize winners and a bunch of over-educated international professional elite (chei, see big english!) is the president of the house of representatives a hairdresser? and you wonder why our country has not gone very far in 47 years of trying. *"