Moses Eze

Goalkeeper - Niger Tornadoes
6 May 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Moses Eze

143 Edition

The Niger Tornadoes Sentinel

23 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Niger Tornadoes through in the cup

A 1‑1 win over Rangers International, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Squad

Ifeanyi Emmanuel decides it from twelve yards

1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match

6 matches without a win for Niger Tornadoes

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Niger Tornadoes are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Chari Giwa

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Niger Tornadoes

Olawale Emmanuel 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Sunday Akinmoladun

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Moses Eze signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Moses Eze and Niger Tornadoes agree another 3 years.

Player ratings

Abbati Musa takes the honours

Marked 7.47 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Niger Tornadoes had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

The form table has caught Ibrahim Abubakar

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

Back issues
141 Edition

The Niger Tornadoes Sentinel

9 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Abdulaziz Dalhatu asks to leave Niger Tornadoes

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

The dugout

Moses Eze says Niger Tornadoes went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Niger Tornadoes — 7.62

1 for Joseph Godstime, marked 7.62, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad

A row about effort at Niger Tornadoes

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Olawale Emmanuel was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ifeanyi Emmanuel

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ifeanyi Emmanuel, and the manager let it.

Squad

Ifeanyi Emmanuel reaches 100 appearances

100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

Match

Late, late show earns Niger Tornadoes a point

Minute 91, against Plateau United, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

Squad

Tempers go at Niger Tornadoes

Azeez Yusuf 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.

Player ratings

The game went through Olawale Emmanuel — 6.99

Marked 6.99 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

In brief