Umar Moffi

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615 Edition

The Shooting Stars Gazette

10 May 2038
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad10 May 2038

Ismail Ayodele damages knee ligaments — 102 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 102 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings10 May 2038

Age has not caught Ibrahim Ayoola yet — 8.49

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.49 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad10 May 2038

Tempers go at Shooting Stars

Tobi Alagbe 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 ratings10 May 2038

Moruf Umar in the eights

A performance of 9.54 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match8 May 2038

Shooting Stars see off Bendel Insurance

Three points for Shooting Stars, 2‑0 the final word against Bendel Insurance in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad10 May 2038

Umar Moffi stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Umar Moffi and Shooting Stars agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 May 2038

When it matters, Tobi Alagbe plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Player ratings10 May 2038

A defender's afternoon for Wisdom Ebirim

Defensive actions: 14. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings10 May 2038

Olayinka Akinola runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

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606 Edition

The Shooting Stars Gazette

8 Mar 2038
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad8 Mar 2038

Nathaniel Nwosu keeps Shooting Stars in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings8 Mar 2038

Mustapha Gbolahan, 36, rolls back the years — 8.90

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.90 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match6 Mar 2038

Still nobody has beaten Shooting Stars

The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad8 Mar 2038

Umar Moffi: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Shooting Stars have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad8 Mar 2038

Ismail Ayodele signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ismail Ayodele commits to Shooting Stars for another 2 years.

Squad8 Mar 2038

Tempers go at Shooting Stars

Mustapha Gbolahan 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.

Boardroom8 Mar 2038

Shooting Stars release $1.5M for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

Match6 Mar 2038

Mustapha Gbolahan rescues a point for Shooting Stars

It needed Mustapha Gbolahan to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Kano Pillars, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Player ratings8 Mar 2038

Moruf Umar runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief