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Hello world, welcome to OFFSIDE WITH JEROME. Ramadan Kareem to my Muslim brothers this episode focuses on a quick preview to two of the major tournaments on display this summer: COPA America 2019 AFCON 2019 A big chunk of the biggest stars in the football world are South Americans hence the buzz around the COPA America; a football tournament for the national teams of from the region. This year’s edition is the 46th edition and will be hosted by Brazil. Of the teams participating in the tourney include, defending champions Chile, heavyweights Argentina and Brazil as well as the tournament’s most successful team Uruguay amongst others and the tournament will kick start on the 14th of June and will be on show through to the 7th of July. All group games will have been played by the 24th of June while the knockouts will begin on the 27th of June after a 3 day break. In the tournament this year there are 10 regular South American teams while there are 2 teams from Asia invited t...

Hello TTB Lovers, it’s been ages on the section, first off I want to apologize to our followers as OFFSIDE WITH JEROME has not been running for quite a while, This week I’ll be focusing on: The Video Assistant Referees (VAR) effect. Super Eagle of the Week. This past week received a once inconceivable buzz around football generally as the 2nd leg of the UEFA champions league was played out in Europe. But whether it owed to the brilliance of Lionel Messi or to the kill Joy strength of the VAR it only furthered the point that the champions league is one of if not the most exciting football competitions ever. One of the most entertaining match ups was played out at the Etihad stadium when Manchester city beat Tottenham 4-3 on the night and still crash out of the competition on away goals rule, crazy right? But the major talking points of the tie was the influence of the video assistant referees. Introduced to the UEFA champions this season VAR brought with it (for Tottenham ...

Hello world, welcome to the very first episode of Offside with Jerome for 2019; a very happy new year to you from all of us at The Tellrhodes blog. Generally this section will look to provide accurate and timely information to its readers and followers on happenings in the football world. I have lined up many new innovations to provide football related information in different forms other than regular news. We’ll be having Editorials on hot footballing topics Previews and reviews of Nigerian players abroad Extra time news (a quick dive into personal lives of footballers generally not related to happenings on the pitch) amongst other plans. So below are the scores from today’s games in Europe’s big five leagues. EPL Wolverhampton Wanderers       4 -  3       Leicester City AFC Bournemouth       2 - 0.         West Ham United Liverpool.    4.  -  3.    ...

Its Saturday again sport lovers and we have to get OFFSIDE again Here are the top stories -The Carabao cup third round summary -Barcelona unveil plans to update club crest -Chelsea host Liverpool in a rematch -5 amazing facts this week During the week, the carabao cup (the English league cup) served up some interesting match ups. West ham recorded an emphatic 8 nil beating of lowly Macclesfied town, Arsenal beat Brentford 3 goals to 1, Manchester City dispatched Oxford  United 3 nil, while an Eden Hazard inspired solo effort led Chelsea past Liverpool at Anfield to move to the next round. A couple of upsets were recorded first Burton Albion dumped Burnley out of the tournament with a 2-1 victory, but the upset of the round was saved for Manchester United who were knocked out of the competition by championship side Derby at Old Trafford after going down 8-7 on Penalties a game in which rookie manager Frank lampard defeated the special one and his old boss Jose Mourinho. ...

Welcome to this week’s episode of OFFSIDE WITH JEROME Major Talking Points NFF president Amaju Pinnick re-elected The drama! The whitewash!! The tears!!! The champions league returns Results From the Champions League 5 amazing statistics for th e weekend For the first time in the history of Nigerian football the incumbent President of the Nigerian football federation Mr Amaju Pinnick under the watchful eyes of local and international observers retained his seat as he was re-elected to run the affairs of the federation for another 4 years from 2018 through to 2022. Mr Pinnick emerged victorious in the September 20 polls held in Kastina after securing 34 of a possible 44 votes in a landslide victory over his 3 other opponents and has since been congratulated by the FIFA president Gianni Infantino on the achievement of securing re-election. The UEFA Champions league returned after the off season during the week and my did it return with everything we have come to know ...

Welcome to offside (Sports) with Jerome Jnr, On this week’s round up in the world of sport. I will bring you updates from all over Europe as well as a few exciting news on the international scene. Headlines: - Manchester city play keep up in the early English premier league title race - Barcelona and Real maintain perfect starts while Athletico Madrid stumble again - Juventus keep winning but Ronaldo remains goalless in serie A - Nigeria set to play Seychelles in Victoria - Amazing statistics for the week Let’s begin from the English premier league where defending champions Manchester city recorded a 2-1 victory at home over Newcastle to ensure the stay close to early pacesetters Liverpool, Watford and Chelsea all with 100% records so far this season after they secured slim wins over Leicester and Bournemouth respectively. Elsewhere Arsenal recorded a hard-fought 3-2 away victory over new boys Cardif while Manchester united bounced back from back to back losses with...

Good day, and thanks for joining me on OFFSIDE with JEROME This week I will be doing a world cup round up as the grandest football tournament has just reached its conclusion with France emerging victorious for the first time since they first won it as the hosts 20 years ago. As a bonus I will be providing a rundown of the top 5 statistics that were on show at the 2018 world cup in Russia. So the world cup is over, the world has been released from the mass hysteria it has been engulfed in for the last one month of total football. The tournament opened with a goal fest as hosts Russia drubbed Saudi Arabia 5-0 and it was only fitting that the world end would end in another goal fest, this time with France edging Croatia 4-2 in a 6 goal thriller played out at the Luzhniki stadium. But once All 5 African teams  (Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, Tunisia and Senegal) failed to make it out of the group stage, and no non-European team making it to the semis it became clear the world cup was...

Hello there, a very warm welcome to you all to the sport section of the tellrhodes blog! Here I will be providing you timely and accurate updates in the world of sports. On this section we'll provide updates all week long and give weekly editorials on latest happenings in and around your favorite football teams. So, lets begin with the updates from the UEFA Champions league last 16 matches played out this week. Defending champions Real Madrid cemented their place in the quarter finals and as one of the favorites for this years trophy haven secured back to back Champions league trophies in the last two seasons by coming out on top 1-2 away to Neymarless Paris st Germain on Tuesday. Cristiano Ronaldo and midfielder Casemiro secured the goals for the Spaniards either side of an Edinson cavani equalizer to triumph 5-2 on aggregate. Elsewhere Portuguese giants Fc Porto held Liverpool to a dour goalless draw at anfield in the days other tie in a game which failed to produce eno...