The Kano Pillars Gazette
Squad29 Mar 2027
Real improvement from Aminu Mohammed at Kano Pillars
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Aminu Mohammed is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Kano Pillars
Ali Abdullahi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Looking ahead29 Mar 2027
Top-of-the-table clash for Kano Pillars
Warri Wolves next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Habibu 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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Ali Abdullahi 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 Ali Abdullahi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Looking ahead29 Mar 2027
Tejiri Emonena faces his old club
Warri Wolves next, and one man in the Kano Pillars dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes Tejiri Emonena a promise
- Market Umar Ismail placed on the list
- The dugout Aminu Mohammed keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Yusuf Kabir is not doing himself any favours