THE RANTINGS OF AN ENYIMBA FC FAN9x NPFL Champions•2x CAF Champions League
Good day, Elephants! Enyimba FC have endured a sluggish start to the 2026/27 Euromatch NPFL season, compounded by fixture scheduling and rescheduling that has seen the Aba Giants play just one match in two weeks. That is about to change. The final two weeks of September will bring a whirlwind of activity, with Enyimba scheduled to play four matches in…
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A lot has happened at Enyimba in the last few months, and unfortunately, much of it has torn the fanbase into different factions. Some have positioned themselves firmly behind the Club Chairman, while others have taken the opposite side of the divide. But through all of this, one question keeps coming back: Who is actually on the side of the…
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Good day, Elephants! In Nigeria, the expression “no man’s land” is a highly debated political and cultural phrase, most commonly associated with Lagos. Historically and figuratively, the phrase has been used to describe Lagos as a cosmopolitan melting pot where Nigerians from every ethnic background can settle, thrive and pursue their ambitions. It was first used in 1947 by Hon.…
Enyimba FC players had a feel of the grass again in a league match at the Pantami Stadium Gombe on Saturday against Doma United, almost a fortnight since our league opener in Minna. It was another defeat that placed the Aba giants near the foot of the table. Though it’s too early to be looking at the league table, or…
It’s a new week! Mondays are important, busy and, sometimes, exhausting. We have to quickly recalibrate from the relaxation of the weekend to the demands of the first workday, even when some of us are still nursing a hangover of one kind or another. Yet, somehow, we are expected to remain mentally alert and ready to face the day. For…
We go again! After 13 days since our first and only Euromatch Nigeria Premier Football League fixture, we are back in action today. We missed Matchday 2 because our scheduled opponents, Shooting Stars, were busy with Continental football. That used to be our lot, though. Funny how the tables have turned. Today, we face Doma United in Gombe, a fixture…
Good day! We will be in action tomorrow for our second match of the season after our Matchday 2 fixture in the Euromatch Nigeria Premier Football League was postponed because of the continental engagements of our opponents. That used to be our lot, though. Gombe is a very interesting place for us, but we will talk about all of that…
The weekend is almost here and as much as I love the anticipation of looking forward to Friday, I would be glad if the league organizes more midweek games instead of just packing games into Sundays like sardines. All the same, huge things have been happening in Nigeria domestic football since the start of the season; A club won its…
Enyimba FC was not in action in the Euromatch NPFL last weekend due to continental commitments. Read it again. Though we were not directly involved, as our scheduled opponent – Shooting Stars SC were in the thick of it in the CAF Confederation Cup. The extended break afforded our new-look team more time on the training pitch,to continue the work…
Matchday 2 of the Euromatch NPFL has not exactly brought sparks to the league considering the fact that just eight goals were scored in five matches across Nigeria. The matchday 2 calendar also recorded a goalless draw between Kun Khalifat and Barau FC, those two are still technically new sides to the league since they have only spent a season…
This weekend, continental football returns to Africa. Teams will be vying for the two prestigious trophies in club football on the continent, chasing glory, history, money and bragging rights. We have won the more prestigious of the two, but that was 22 years ago. Some of the big names in world football today were either toddlers or not even born…
September is here! It’s a very important month for football fans globally as competitive football action returns in earnest. Personal schedules are adjusted, TV series and soap operas are abandoned for the game and its Hollywood-esque scripts, and weekends suddenly revolve around fixtures, results and league tables again. It also offers a potpourri of emotions depending on which side of…
Good morning and Happy New Month to everyone reading today’s blog post. The much-anticipated 2026/27 EuroMatch-NPFL season finally kicked off over the weekend, with Enyimba beginning the campaign with a 2-1 defeat against Niger Tornadoes in Minna. The result was disappointing, naturally, but the performance offered enough encouragement to suggest there is something for Emmanuel Deutsch to build upon. After…
Yesterday, Enyimba began the long campaign for a tenth Nigeria Premier Football League title. Nine championships already make us record winners, although that record is now shared with our Oriental rivals, Enugu Rangers. Naturally, the ambition is to move ahead again and reclaim our position as the undisputed kings of Nigerian league football. That journey, unfortunately, did not begin the…
It is the penultimate day of the month and the final Sunday of August, but more importantly, it is our first matchday of the 2026/27 EuroMatch-NPFL season. We have waited long enough to see the boys return to the pitch, defend the badge, fuel our passion and compete again for points, pride, history, glory and, of course, those all-important bragging…
The new Nigeria Premier Football League season has started with plenty of noise from the Southwest, and for once, I mean that in a good way. Clubs have invested more effort into their media teams, branding and online presence, and if you follow the NPFL closely, you have probably enjoyed some of the banter, jokes and creative narratives clubs have…
Thank God it’s Friday! That line always reminds me of one of my university lecturers, Mr. Udunwa. Almost every Friday he made it to class, he would remind us of TGIF. It was his own relaxed way of beginning the lecture, and perhaps we can borrow the same approach today because, after what has felt like a very long wait,…
The new season is almost here. In just a few days, Enyimba will begin the 2026/27 campaign with a Sunday afternoon trip to the Bako Kontagora Stadium in Minna to face Niger Tornadoes. Hopefully, it will also mark the beginning of something new under Emmanuel Deutsch, who now has the opportunity to shape this team from the start rather than…
It is finally the week we have been waiting for since the resumption date for the new Nigeria Premier Football League season was announced at the end of last campaign. There have been preseason tournaments, terminated contracts, player movements, training and retraining, reorientations, rumours, announcements and all the other activities that usually tell us another football season is around the…
Good day to all lovers of the People’s Elephants home and abroad, especially those of you who can’t wait for the season to start, rest assured August 28 is almost where, we will finally get to see if Enyimba’s secrecy during the pre-season will bear fruits. I heard Ronaldinho might be coming out of retirement, maybe Enyimba has signed a…
Good day! It is the final weekend before the league finally kicks off. The waiting is almost over, and very soon we will either be trooping into the Elephant Park to watch our boys in the flesh or staying glued to our phones from wherever we find ourselves. X, Facebook, WhatsApp, score apps, websites—anything capable of telling us what is…
Whichever time zone you find yourself in, I am sure most of us want the same thing: to see the People’s Elephant march back towards the top where it belongs. For that reason alone, anyone who has remained loyal through the recent struggles deserves some commendation. The new NPFL season is almost here, and naturally our attention is beginning to…
The countdown to the 2026/27 NPFL season is getting shorter, and clubs across the country are now in the final phase of preparations. New signings are being integrated, fitness levels are being pushed closer to match sharpness and coaches are using these last few days to pass on the technical details they hope will define their teams when the real…
It is just about a week to the first match of the 2026/27 Nigeria Premier Football League season, and across the country, clubs are putting the finishing touches to their preparations. Coaches are fine-tuning tactics, players are fighting for places, new signings are settling in and everyone is hoping that the work done behind closed doors will eventually translate into…
The season is almost at the door. In about two weeks, the wait will finally be over and Enyimba will begin the long journey with a trip to Minna to face Niger Tornadoes. It is not a match that will define the season, because one game cannot possibly tell us how the next nine months will unfold, but it can…
Greetings, all and sundry. Before most of us fell in love with Enyimba, we probably fell in love with football first. The tricks, the flicks, the long passes that look programmed to arrive exactly where they are supposed to, the impossible saves and, of course, the goals. Enyimba simply gave many of us somewhere to channel all that affection, and…
Clubs preparing to fight on both domestic and continental fronts have been busy in the transfer market, strengthening their squads and parading new signings before supporters as evidence of their ambitions for the coming season. Meanwhile, Enyimba fans continue to look on, searching for some reassurance amid plans that remain uncertain, unclear and, for reasons best known to those in…
I remember growing up listening to folklore. Those stories had everything: animals that behaved like humans, humans who behaved like animals, kings, tricksters, heroes, villains and, of course, that one character who somehow always managed to make a bad situation worse. Beneath the laughter and drama, however, there was usually a lesson tucked somewhere inside, something meant to make us…
