[quote=McReggae]



There werent any good teams in Naija's qualifying group: Kenya, Malawi, Namibia....
Aagain being crowned African champions has nothing to do with this. I never said Naija had an easy time becoming African champions.

Why do you keep bringing up the Africa nations cup when it has absolutely nothing to do with qualifying ?

Go back to my original post and you will see that I was talking about the qualifiers. This has nothing to do with Africa cup.

Of all the teams that will qualify from Africa, Naija's path has been the easiest. The highest ranked team they played was Ethiopia which is ranked #93 by FIFA.

All the teams in naija's qualifying group( Kenya, malawi, Namibia) are very low in the FIFA rankings. Kenya is actually the highest at number 118 in the FIFA rankings. Talk about an easy qualifying group.



Ethiopia are not weak. But ask any Nigerian which of the 7 teams they would have liked to meet in the playoffs and the unanimous answer would have been Ethiopia.

Of all the playoff teams, Ethiopia have the lowest FIFA rankings. And Ethiopia have weaknesses which Naija is in prime position to capitalize on, namely that they are slow and they are weak. Its a very favourable matchup for Naija because Nigerians are fast.



If you follow African football, you will know that the reason reffing is poor is not because referees are incompetent. It is because referees arrive with a fixed mind and many are bribed. There is a lot of corruption in African football and it would not shock me if CAF is giving Naija a helping hand. I cant say for sure. But to deny it outright is to be naive.

When Naija played Kenya in 2009, it was blatantly obvious that the ref was helping Naija. It became so bad that fans started throwing objects onto the field.

And I am not singling out Naija. Please do not put words in my mouth. In fact my point is that corrupt referees are so common. From what I am reading, even Burkina Faso were helped by this ref this past week. The ref allowed a phantom goal against Algeria.

Also you should know that Naija football is by far the most corrupt in Africa. Their league is so corrupt that sometimes its impossible for any team to win a match away from home. And recently, there were some teams that scored 79 goals and 67 goals respectively.

And Naija often use dirty tactics like frustrating visiting teams the way they did against Kenya this year. Even despite not giving Kenya a training ground, CAF did not sanction them. Given all this, it will not shock me if Naija are up to something.