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The Bayelsa United Courier

8 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad8 Oct 2035

A fracture rules Kenneth Sheddy out for 99 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bayelsa United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match8 Oct 2035

The season ends: position 8 for Bayelsa United

The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 65 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.

Market8 Oct 2035

Terem Okoye hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bayelsa United can pretend not to have heard.

Squad8 Oct 2035

Tempers go at Bayelsa United

Nupe Godstime 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.

Squad8 Oct 2035

A row about effort at Bayelsa United

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kazobar Kasongo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match6 Oct 2035

Niger Tornadoes take the points off Bayelsa United

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout8 Oct 2035

Interim Coach faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Interim Coach after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Player ratings8 Oct 2035

Shodeinde Moses runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad8 Oct 2035

Defences have started doubling up on Okardi Inikurogha

1 goals and a season average of 7.27 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

In brief

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The Bayelsa United Courier

7 May 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 May 2035

Terem Okoye puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bayelsa United, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout7 May 2035

Umar Obafemi says Bayelsa United went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market7 May 2035

Simon Lawal is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Bayelsa United is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad7 May 2035

Nupe Godstime 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.

Match5 May 2035

Bayelsa United see off Abia Warriors

Three points for Bayelsa United, 1‑0 the final word against Abia Warriors in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings7 May 2035

Shodeinde Moses was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.22. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings7 May 2035

Nobody could get near Okardi Inikurogha

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad7 May 2035

Olisa Iheanacho signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Olisa Iheanacho and Bayelsa United agree another 3 years.

Squad7 May 2035

Kazobar Kasongo 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.

In brief

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The Bayelsa United Courier

12 Feb 2035
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match10 Feb 2035

Bayelsa United tear Katsina United apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Katsina United, and it could have been more.

Market12 Feb 2035

Only the photograph left for Simon Lawal

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Simon Lawal will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bayelsa United the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Transfer targets12 Feb 2035

No thanks: Oche Akpan rejects the move

Bayelsa United had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Shooting Stars, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Market12 Feb 2035

The Ikorodu City deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Umar Osimhen reports back to Bayelsa United with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Squad12 Feb 2035

Nupe Godstime 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.

Player ratings12 Feb 2035

One of those days for Shodeinde Moses

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.33, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings12 Feb 2035

Ogheneovowe Erere ran the middle of the pitch — 7.47

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 10 combined actions and a mark of 7.47, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

The dugout12 Feb 2035

Interim Coach has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Interim Coach on a 3‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

Squad12 Feb 2035

A row about effort at Bayelsa United

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kazobar Kasongo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief