The Bayelsa United Courier
Match23 Jun 2029
20 unbeaten for Bayelsa United
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 20 matches without defeat is a foundation Bayelsa United did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings25 Jun 2029
Nobody could get near Nupe Godstime
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market25 Jun 2029
Only the photograph left for Clement Destiny
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Clement Destiny will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bayelsa United the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Ndidi Obi keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bayelsa United may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Tempers go at Bayelsa United
Gabriel Biriduba 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.
Squad25 Jun 2029
The manager makes an example of Andy Ezekiel
“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.
Player ratings25 Jun 2029
One of those days for Chinedu Onyinjekwu
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.43, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings25 Jun 2029
Gabriel Biriduba in the eights
A performance of 8.18 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match23 Jun 2029
Bayelsa United and Katsina United take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
- Squad James Emo is carrying Bayelsa United
- Player ratings Kehinde Lawal keeps on missing
- Market The Gabriel Biriduba talk will not go away