Sacked players, not pardoned- GALADIMA

ikwerreman · Post by **ikwerreman** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 9:28 pm

Ayo Akinfe · Post by **Ayo Akinfe** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 9:32 pm

Sacked players, not pardoned- GALADIMA

By china acheru
Contributing Editor
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The Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association, Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima says Celestine Babayaro, Victor Agali and Yakubu Aiyegbeni have not been pardoned.

After the match against South Africa, Sports Minister, Musa Mohammed said that the players would be pardoned after the game against Benin Republic, but in an interview with the football boss, Ibrahim Galadima declared that the players have not aplogised and there should not be talk of the boys been pardoned.

"I met the Minister after the match and he did not tell me anything about pardon for the boys.”

" They have not sent any letter of apology and it is only when we see a letter that we can even think of forgiving them for the offence for which they were punished.”

Ibrahim Galadima that every player must abide by the rules and regulations governing the camp and that the association did everything possible to make the boys obey camp rules.

Journalists and football fans are waiting to see if the boys would actually be pardoned after the Benin
match as the three players have since left Monastir.

Yakubu Aiyegbeni on the reserve bench of Portsmouth in last Saturday in the 0-0 draw against Wolves.

Eagles move to Sfax

Players and officials of the Super Eagles Monday morning moved to Sfax, the venue of the last match against Benin,which comes up on Wednesday.

Coach Christain Chukwu has said that the team would train in the evening to get ready for the all important game.

The players are expected to get a feel of the Stadium and settle down to concentrate on the game which they must win by a large margin.
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Face saving from Galadima. Ifr the minister said they are pardoned they are. He is just embarassed because they told him to stuff his pardon and left.

Dodo · Post by **Dodo** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 9:34 pm

every day another dollar for the k leg the story takes

Larry Ashagbe · Post by **Larry Ashagbe** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 9:39 pm

The boys were pardoned.

Shownoja · Post by **Shownoja** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 9:41 pm

Larry Ashagbe wrote:The boys were pardoned.

As far as there is no concrete evidence, this remains purely in the realm of speculation.

Talk IT · Post by **Talk IT** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 9:46 pm

Shownoja wrote:
Larry Ashagbe wrote:The boys were pardoned.
As far as there is no concrete evidence, this remains purely in the realm of speculation.

Shownoja
Be a man and admit you're wrong on this one.
Okocha also said they were pardoned in his interview

Shownoja · Post by **Shownoja** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 10:05 pm

Talk IT wrote:
Shownoja wrote:
Larry Ashagbe wrote:The boys were pardoned.
As far as there is no concrete evidence, this remains purely in the realm of speculation.
Shownoja
Be a man and admit you're wrong on this one.
Okocha also said they were pardoned in his interview

There is a difference between an intention to pardon after the Benin game and an actual pardon. If you read what Galadima said you cannot come to any other conclusion but that there was no pardon. All we have is people saying the minister had an intention to pardon, even JJ's interview said that was his understanding.

The only direct quote to go by is that whcih came from Galadima and he said there was no pardon.

I hope that is clewar enough for you TalkIT

Riche007 · Post by **Riche007** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 10:28 pm

Pardon or no Pardon, bottomline is that they aint in Tunisia any longer and they are likely not going to be back any sooner.....end of tory!

Naija fan · Post by **Naija fan** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 10:33 pm

Shownoja wrote:
Larry Ashagbe wrote:The boys were pardoned.
As far as there is no concrete evidence, this remains purely in the realm of speculation.

Does that mean they will be going back to Tunisia?

DIMKA76 · Post by **DIMKA76** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 11:28 pm

Naija fan wrote:
Does that mean they will be going back to Tunisia?

not a chance!!!! They would never have left in the first place!!!

HAWKEYE · Post by **HAWKEYE** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 3:15 am

How can you paardon someone who shows no remorse?

Robbynice · Post by **Robbynice** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 3:30 am

HAWKEYE wrote:How can you paardon someone who shows no remorse?

I wonder. Till tomorrow I am still waiting for them to issue a public apology if not to the NFA but to the fans.

CMS · Post by **CMS** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 4:55 am

It's naijas loss..

What a waste? After Ogunjobi went begging all over the world, now this. we're back to square one.

LET THE EXPERIMENTS BEGIN..... CCC OYA,, ANY CAB DRIVERS IN TOWN?

MI5 · Post by **MI5** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:22 am

Shownoja,

When is NFA going to make you a board member? Pls let us know so we can celebrate with you....

Shownoja wrote:
Talk IT wrote:
Shownoja wrote:
Larry Ashagbe wrote:The boys were pardoned.
As far as there is no concrete evidence, this remains purely in the realm of speculation.
Shownoja
Be a man and admit you're wrong on this one.
Okocha also said they were pardoned in his interview
There is a difference between an intention to pardon after the Benin game and an actual pardon. If you read what Galadima said you cannot come to any other conclusion but that there was no pardon. All we have is people saying the minister had an intention to pardon, even JJ's interview said that was his understanding.

The only direct quote to go by is that whcih came from Galadima and he said there was no pardon.

I hope that is clewar enough for you TalkIT

MI5 · Post by **MI5** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:24 am

When is NFA going to make a grand apology for what they've done to naija soccer?

Robbynice wrote:
HAWKEYE wrote:How can you paardon someone who shows no remorse?
I wonder. Till tomorrow I am still waiting for them to issue a public apology if not to the NFA but to the fans.

khalela · Post by **khalela** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 11:10 am

MI5 wrote:When is NFA going to make a grand apology for what they've done to naija soccer?

Robbynice wrote:
HAWKEYE wrote:How can you paardon someone who shows no remorse?
I wonder. Till tomorrow I am still waiting for them to issue a public apology if not to the NFA but to the fans.

Bros,
For that one,we go wait until thy kingdom come oh!!They do not even feel like they owe us an apology and like the boys-they show no remorse!!!!