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The hardest goodbye I have had to say... Rest In Peace, Dad Until we meet to part no more

Professional football players voting for Lionel Messi = Robbery. You paying to vote for Cristiano Ronaldo in some useless popularity poll = Deserved. 😭

I know I’ll end up writing about this properly one day. I keep seeing the same claim recycled online that “Ronaldo was a midfielder.” It always surprises me. Did you guys actually watch him, or has the line just been repeated so many times that it’s become accepted? I see it in arguments a lot. Ronaldo was never a midfielder and has never ever been a midfielder. In the early-to-mid 2000s, 4-4-2 was still the formation almost every team used, so wide players were routinely listed as RMF or LMF, please confirm this if you weren’t born then because recently I found out I was arguing with a boy born in 2009. The word “winger” was used less often than it is today. That doesn’t mean those players were midfielders in the modern sense. At Man United, Ronaldo lined up on the right (and sometimes left) of a 4-4-2 or 4-5-1. His job was to take on full-backs, beat them, and either cross or drive into dangerous areas. Crossing was more common then. He has always been an attacking wide player from the start. He was not a midfielder sitting deeper and recycling possession or dictating play, he has never been, why do yo guys push lies and all of a sudden people now use that in arguments that Ronaldo was once a midfielder. Calling him a midfielder because of how team sheets were written in the 4-4-2 era is mostly a semantic argument. By today’s positional language, he was a winger. The distinction matters when people try to use “he was a midfielder” as a way to downplay his goalscoring numbers from those seasons or to reframe his career. He was a wide attacker who later evolved into a more central forward. The formation labels of the era don’t change what he was actually doing on the pitch If this is what you mean by wide midfielder in your tweet, then I totally agree with you brother, but I have seen this term used in a way that tells a story about Ronaldo being an outright midfielder, he was never ever one. If anyone has spent large parts of games as a midfielder/playmaker, it’s Messi. I have put a video of Messi in the 2011 Champions League final. I can dare you to show me footage from that era till date where Ronaldo consistently occupied midfield positions like that for sustained periods, not just in transition. Meanwhile, I can show you 2026 Messi still doing what you can see in that 2011 video. Frame 2 in comments is typical of where Messi has operated for most of his career (up to the 2026 World Cup). He has spent long stretches deeper, linking play and creating, yet still averages more goals than Ronaldo. Messi has played 100s of games as the primary creator. He has often been the sole playmaker in his teams, combining chance creation with goalscoring. He was winning top-scorer awards while winning playmaker awards but yeah, you still prefer Ronaldo to him and now you’re killing Haaland. Ronaldo has a strong assist record, but he has never been a true playmaker who dictates tempo or sustains high chance-creation numbers the way Messi has. They’re not the same profile. Same way Kane and Haaland are different. Ronaldo’s game also shifted early at Real Madrid. By his second season (2010/11), the dribbles dropped as he prioritised goals and efficiency. You know how crazy Ronaldo is about numbers. Frame 3 in comments shows his dribbles per game in a season, you can clearly see the volume kept falling as the years went on. He became more of a pure goalscorer/poacher which is fine. My point is if you prefer Kane to Haaland, and criticising Haaland, why then do you prefer Messi to Ronaldo. Messi that does EVERYTHING for 20 years, he did not sacrifice any part of his game to focus on one part, so why? However, to be fair to many of you, it was the old version you guys fell in love with, let me hear your thoughts though.

*Nigerian Man goes to the market to buy something. Nigerian Man: Madam, how much is this bag of rice? Market Woman: This one na 100K sir. Nigerian Man: What is really happening in this country? Things are just so expensive. No way for the common masses. This Tinubu is the worst president ever. Abeg madam, bring 5 bags. END.

Ronaldo 2️⃣-0️⃣ Messi 🐐 Cartoon by @omomani 🎨

Two Months To 2027 General Election, Tinubu Government Replaces Police Commissioners In Three States Where Peter Obi Won In 2023 parallelfactsnews.com/tinubu…

I was losing breath watching this!

Messi 99 Passing 🎩🔥

‘Obi instrumental to erosion control’ thenationonlineng.net/obi-in… A former Minister of Environment, Mr. John Odey, has said former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi was instrumental to the creation of the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP). Under the project, the World Bank will finance the control and management of erosion in some states. The former minister recalled how Obi almost single-handedly pushed for the project, even when his colleagues were lukewarm. Odey spoke yesterday in Abuja at the official launch of the project at the Transcorps Hilton. He urged communities to key in into the project. The World Bank Country Director Marie Francois Marie-Nelly said there was need to seriously tackle erosion in Anambra, Imo, Ebonyi, Enugu, Abia, Edo and Cross River states. She called for ownership and domestication of the project, especially in the affected states. The World Bank chief hailed those implementing the project for their innovation, which emphasises reclamation and control. Marie-Nelly said: “I have visited Edo and Anambra states. Under Peter Obi, I was pleased with his commitment, which he demonstrated by being the first to pay the state’s counterpart funds of N500 million for the project. Ebonyi, Cross River and Imo states have also paid theirs.” Environment Minister Mrs Laurentia Mallam said erosion had caused havoc in several states and deprived the people of arable land.

GOOD DAY, MR PRESIDENT: NIGERIANS DESERVE ACCOUNTABILITY Good day, Mr President. I congratulate you on spending a night in one of Nigeria’s states outside Lagos and Abuja. I hope you enjoyed the warmth, hospitality, and delicious cuisine of Akwa Ibom, which I am sure is even better than those of the destinations where you have spent over 260 days outside Nigeria since coming into office. I sincerely hope this visit will inspire you to travel to the remaining 33 states of the federation, spend time with the people and, more importantly, explain what your administration has done with the ₦15.8 trillion saved from the removal of fuel subsidy, the over $100 billion you have borrowed, the increased revenues accruing to the government from taxing Nigerians, and the additional government revenues which your administration celebrated last year as having surpassed its target. Nigerians deserve to know how many that were pulled out of poverty within this period, how many out-of-school children were returned to school, and how many functional primary healthcare centres you have built. They also deserve to know how much electricity supply has improved, especially given your promise that if you do not fix power, Nigerians should not vote for you. They deserve an explanation of how you have secured the country, which still ranks among the most terrorised countries in the world. Mr President, Nigerians deserve answers. They deserve to know what has been done with the resources entrusted to your government. The New Nigeria we want to build will be based on accountability, transparency, and the physical, measurable impact of our public resources on the lives of citizens. A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO

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