The Warri Wolves Courier
Player ratings15 Feb 2038
No sign of nerves from Oghenekaro Obi at 18 — 7.89
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Oghenekaro Obi did not need any: 7.89, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings15 Feb 2038
Ezekiel Oroh, 37, rolls back the years — 7.91
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.91 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad15 Feb 2038
Warri Wolves lose Chibueze Lambert
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad15 Feb 2038
Tempers go at Warri Wolves
Anthony Nwadioha 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.
Match13 Feb 2038
Warri Wolves and El-Kanemi Warriors take a point apiece
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad15 Feb 2038
Kelechi Collins is still paying for one afternoon at Warri Wolves
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Player ratings15 Feb 2038
One moment undoes Kelechi Collins
There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.
Squad15 Feb 2038
Umar Eguavoen signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Umar Eguavoen commits to Warri Wolves for another 3 years.
Market15 Feb 2038
The Godwin Oham question follows Warri Wolves around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Godwin Oham’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Joseph Zene Zobo
- Boardroom The Warri Wolves production line keeps running
- Market Chukwueze Nwakali placed on the list