I do not like football matches against Angola.

Since that fateful day of August 19, 1989, at the National Stadium in Lagos, when a match ended tragically with the death of Nigeria’s great and gifted midfield ‘general’  Samuel Okwaraji, I have not got over the depression that sets in whenever the Super Eagles are to play against the Palancas Negras of Angola.

Today, I find myself in an unusual situation. I am writing this on Thursday night. I cannot preview the match against Angola coming up on Friday because this would be published on Saturday. Unless I can predict the future, there is no way I can either do a preview or a review of that most important high-stakes’ match that will determine the fate of both countries.

I have a problem with Angola.

I never played against them throughout my career in the 1970s and 1980s.  They did not

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