Chidera Simon

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24 Feb 2029
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114 Edition

The El-Kanemi Warriors Courier

2 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the El-Kanemi Warriors boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Boardroom

Aminu Ajayi has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at El-Kanemi Warriors can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Squad

Godspower Akekoromowei 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 El-Kanemi Warriors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at El-Kanemi Warriors training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ismail Mukhtar is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Maselaelo Seanego gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Boardroom

$3.9M taken back off the El-Kanemi Warriors table

What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.

In brief

Back issues
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The El-Kanemi Warriors Courier

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Emmanuel Jonas runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 44. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Ibrahim Yahaya asks to leave El-Kanemi Warriors

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at El-Kanemi Warriors

Emmanuel Nwabufo 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at El-Kanemi Warriors

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Ismail Mukhtar 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to David Damboama

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Market

El-Kanemi Warriors promote Chidera Simon from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Chidera Simon has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Olayinka Obafemi joins the El-Kanemi Warriors first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Olayinka Obafemi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

El-Kanemi Warriors promote Emmanuel Awaziem from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Emmanuel Awaziem has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief