The Bayelsa United Courier
Squad14 Oct 2030
Kenneth Sheddy 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 Bayelsa United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market14 Oct 2030
One of our own: Michael Eguavoen joins the Bayelsa United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Michael Eguavoen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Oct 2030
One of our own: Calvin Eguavoen joins the Bayelsa United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Calvin Eguavoen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Oct 2030
One of our own: Chidera Babatunde joins the Bayelsa United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Chidera Babatunde is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Oct 2030
One of our own: Ikechukwu Sadiq joins the Bayelsa United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ikechukwu Sadiq is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad14 Oct 2030
Uthman Olawumi 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 dugout14 Oct 2030
When it matters, Stephen Chukwueze 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.
The dugout14 Oct 2030
The manager makes an example of Olisa Umar
“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.
The dugout14 Oct 2030
Sheldon Borg knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Sheldon Borg trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Boardroom The Bayelsa United academy earns its keep
- Squad The selectors could not leave Sulyman Baraje out
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Don-Pedro Samuel