Cybereagles

Just be careful how you raise your kids, be firm but please be there for them and try and get to know them....the ancient Naija way won't work especially in the West....understand your kid, the environment, their strengths and weaknesses.

thanks for the clarification, especially regarding ~ 3 yrs ago. That makes him ~ 17 at the time. If a 20-yr old suddenly decides to drop his last name despite being close to his Dad up to age 17 (at least), something must have really happened recently. Or he must be really immature if someone can convince him at 20 to do that!

But when you changed your name from Its A Goal to Its a Goat, wasn't it because you had problems with goals?

Dele Alli's parents are pursuing legal action as neither of them signed his first professional forms with MK Dons
Since the age of 13, midfielder Alli has lived with Alan and Sally Hickford
The Hickford's signatures are on Alli's MK Dons contract but their status is the loophole being exploited


Tottenham and England star Dele Alli goes into the international week with a family dispute gathering momentum.

Alli's parents Denise and Kehinde, who split when Dele was three, are pursuing legal action because neither of them signed his first professional forms with MK Dons as a 16-year-old, allegedly in breach of regulations.

Since the age of 13, Alli has lived with Alan and Sally Hickford — parents of Harry Hickford, another MK Dons academy player. Alli considers Alan and Sally his mum and dad, but they have never officially adopted him.
The Hickfords' signatures are on Alli's MK Dons contract but their status at the time — only the homeowners of his digs by the letter of the law — is the loophole being exploited by his parents.

Denise and Kehinde are estranged from Alli to the extent he took the family surname off his Tottenham shirt at the start of the season.

Alli, who is expected to feature for England against Germany and Lithuania this week, has already had to cope with his parents complaining that he wants nothing to do with them, despite the fact it is believed he gives them money.

If this ever gets to court, hopefully commonsense will prevail and the parents "claim" will be dismissed, as it is plain to see that the Hickfords were acting "in loco parentis". As it is, the article doesn't say what the parents are gunning for but it is plain to see that no harm has come to the lad, no one has exploited him (save for the attempts now by his parents), he personally is not taking any retrospective action, and if there was any compensation due it would surely go to him rather than the parents.

Comment: Ivanitch, Wessex, United Kingdom, about 4 hours ago

Damunk somebody should have slapped that wandering spirit out of you and take you to some revival to lay hands and cast out "some demons" lol
This no be normal behavior for a 20 year old o lol

And Dad of the year waited till he was the golden boy of North London. Did deadbeat Dad call up the courthouse when he wearing bibs in Bedfordshire? #YouWasntWithMeShootingInTheGym

It actually is! At FUTO, I had a diassagreement with my father and decided I am done with him. I had a source of income...abeg no ask lol. I stuck to my gun for over 2 semesters despite all attempts by my mother to get me to visit home. I was going from one Uni to another during breaks but never home. The only thing that brought me home was Yankee visa lottery that I didn't even apply for but won thanks to an uncle...

My point being, at 20, there are things most of us did that makes little to no sense now. Especially when you look back at them with mature vision now.

Mscheew...no wonder you dey tok anyhow for CE. To say na me be your Pops, I for come find you with koboko, come begin give you serious lashes in presence of those yeye girls wey you dey pose for. Foolish boy

Nah my popsy no give a shiite about person wey de throw tantrum.
Are you jealous I got all dem girls instead of your old self?

small pikins of nowadays

Anyway, my Pops was "fortunate" none of us "dared" throw tantrums. Thinking back as an adult now, there were two main reasons in my opinion.
1. He started relating to us "like adults" quite early, e.g. sit you down and seek your opinion on something. Looking back, it was just Old Man wayo, because even though we felt important at that time, na stuff that didn't matter in the grand scheme of things, or something he was going to do in his own way anyway.
2. To all of us, he was this "hero without flaws". Of course, this isn't accurate, but that is how we viewed him. This opinion was shaped by his going from village boy to Oxford graduate, he was very good-looking and brilliant, but very modest and compassionate, etc. Don't know about my brothers, but I always thought I could never measure to him...

small pikins of nowadays

Anyway, my Pops was "fortunate" none of us "dared" throw tantrums. Thinking back as an adult now, there were two main reasons in my opinion.
1. He started relating to us "like adults" quite early, e.g. sit you down and seek your opinion on something. Looking back, it was just Old Man wayo, because even though we felt important at that time, na stuff that didn't matter in the grand scheme of things, or something he was going to do in his own way anyway.
2. To all of us, he was this "hero without flaws". Of course, this isn't accurate, but that is how we viewed him. This opinion was shaped by his going from village boy to Oxford graduate, he was very good-looking and brilliant, but very modest and compassionate, etc. Don't know about my brothers, but I always thought I could never measure to him...

From village boy to village boy how can you measure up? Just accept your lot in life

Can't really understand his parents motives, something suggest it's money, if Dele Ali was a local east London gangster, his parents will want nothing to do with him

And Dad of the year waited till he was the golden boy of North London. Did deadbeat Dad call up the courthouse when he wearing bibs in Bedfordshire? #YouWasntWithMeShootingInTheGym