The Ikorodu City Chronicle
Match11 Aug 2029
Ikorodu City win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 92th minute. Barau will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings13 Aug 2029
Nobody could get near Shodeinde Moses
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match11 Aug 2029
Ikorodu City make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Ikorodu City have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Emmanuel Mathias in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ikorodu City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Chineme Chinonso 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.
Match11 Aug 2029
Ikorodu City keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Squad13 Aug 2029
No hiding place for Chineme Chinonso
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Chineme Chinonso, and the manager let it.
Match11 Aug 2029
Taiwo Alao the difference as Ikorodu City beat Barau
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Taiwo Alao. 1‑0 against Barau, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings13 Aug 2029
The afternoon belonged to Taiwo Alao
7.40, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Ikorodu City had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
In brief
- Squad Shodeinde Moses has become a man the manager trusts
- Market The Uche Onyemaechi conversation is coming
- Market Simon Ogunjobi told to find a new club