Joseph Timi

Defensive Midfielder - El-Kanemi Warriors
9 Oct 2027
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Marked for Joseph Timi

61 Edition

The El-Kanemi Warriors Courier

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad27 Sep 2027

Words exchanged at El-Kanemi Warriors

Rivio Ayemwenre and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Words at El-Kanemi Warriors training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ibrahim Yahaya is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout27 Sep 2027

Eromosele Zibiri gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Eromosele Zibiri is on it.

Match27 Sep 2027

El-Kanemi Warriors have something to play for

Position 5 on 67 points, and the places that carry a European ticket are close enough to count. Seasons like this are decided by two results in April, and the club knows which two.

The dugout27 Sep 2027

A door opens for Joseph Timi

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Market27 Sep 2027

Tosin Olawale linked with a move away

The name of Tosin Olawale keeps appearing in other people's back pages. El-Kanemi Warriors say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout27 Sep 2027

Moses Nyebe knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Moses Nyebe trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout27 Sep 2027

The manager comes out for Samuel Ezekiel

Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Samuel Ezekiel has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.

Boardroom27 Sep 2027

The El-Kanemi Warriors board put their names to it

A statement of support, which is cheap, and a conversation about the next window, which is not. The second one is the part the manager wanted.

In brief

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38 Edition

The El-Kanemi Warriors Courier

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings19 Apr 2027

Up for the corner, and Joseph Timi delivers — 7.44

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Joseph Timi scored, was marked 7.44, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad19 Apr 2027

Tempers go at El-Kanemi Warriors

Olughu Chinemerem was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match17 Apr 2027

Whatever happens, El-Kanemi Warriors do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad19 Apr 2027

Adam Yakubu falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match17 Apr 2027

Plateau United end the El-Kanemi Warriors run at 4

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 4 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Player ratings19 Apr 2027

The pass was always on for Emmanuel Jonas

Chances created: 12. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.

Match17 Apr 2027

Joseph Timi rescues a point for El-Kanemi Warriors

It needed Joseph Timi to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Plateau United, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

Terem Iwobi on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Terem Iwobi after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

El-Kanemi Warriors pick somebody else ahead of Usman Abbas

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief