You must give it up to Wanderers FC. Not that as a football team they are better in the game. But as a football team they are good at showing off, bad at actually doing what they are supposed to do: winning trophies.
If we forgo the fluke of being champions of the Malawi football league last season, Nomads were not the best. They kept beating smaller teams on their way to Cup finals which of course revealed their underbelly when they could not overcome teams their size once they met them.
I am writing this on the back of laughter after hearing of the Nomads’ lackadaisical display in DR Congo. To say the truth, I am not surprised. And if you are surprised, you have a big problem. Worse than the attitude of those Nomads players who videoed themselves talking nonsense before departing for DR Congo.
The moment I heard that the Lali Lubani boys were planning to contest in CAF, I had a field day laughing. A few of my friends, so high on faith and possibly the illegal leaf, wanted to bet with me that Nomads would cause upset in the continental showpiece. I refused the bet. I am not a thief. Betting with them would have been profiteering on their blind loyalty. I am decent, at times. I told them to keep their money and, unlike their team, keep their idiocy to themselves.
Now, the weekend came and we all saw what the Nomads are good at: noise, noise, more noise and nothing but noise. Si za mpira iyayi izizi.
Now, before we go far, we need to somehow understand the psychology of Nomads.
Not long ago, Wanderers brought in a Cameroonian striker. The late Lionel Atsu. The romance between the Cameroonian and the team was not only short-lived but also chaotic. In the end, I think it just sent him to an early grave. He really should have done a Kanda Bongoman when he arrived in Malawi than associate with that team whose colours we can’t really tell: blue today, white tomorrow, yellow the next day.
Atsu was not a dangerous player really. He was just like any other average player. Yet it was his nationality that endeared him to the Nomads. In their flamboyance, the Nomads thought he would give them an edge over their opponents. Not that he would score goals, but that they will have the bragging rights of saying they have a foreign player. Hahaha how laughable!
One would be forgiven to think the Nomads are a travel agency or a tourism agency but, nay, they are a football team with a history to boot yet on Atsu they wanted to build a record on his nationality. Not his skills.
Almost immediately after, the Nomads were all over the news saying they have roped in Nigerians in their squad. I had a chance of sitting on the same bus with those Nigerians some day and, boy, I could tell those people were not footballers in the sense of the word. They knew that a ball has to be chased around a pitch and be placed in an opponent’s net but the actual skill of football was something they never had. Amaonekedwe a mpira koma mphamvu yake anaikana.
Unsurprisingly, the two also ended up in the Nomads camp. Their romance, like that of Atsu, was also chaotic and short-lived. After fluking through some games and accidentally finding the back of the net – a feat which every Jim and Jack can do – they finally called it quits with the Nomads. Now, I do not even know where they are but one thing which is for sure is that they are not practising football where they are because, to start with, those people were not footballers. They were just Nigerians who accidentally landed on a team so desperate for impression than winning.
Then there came that Japanese guy. Hahaha, Nomads sometimes behave like a drama club. He was called Nakamura or something like that. The Nomads, again, went to town touting that they had a catch. Its rabid supporters, not so different from the team administrators and players, were foaming all over highlighting that with the coming of Nakamura they would sweep all trophies and awards.
What more? The very lost among the team supporters came and told us that even the World Cup will be claimed by the Nomads with the coming of Nakamura. It never was to be. Like all its other publicity stunts, Nakamura was an epic disaster. His knowledge of football was even worse than the knowledge he had on the burial rites of Gule wamkulu.
The trophies that the team salivated for were nowhere. The goals that they thought Nakamura had were most likely lost in transit. The threat he posed was never translated. You would think the Nomads would learn a lesson.
But lessons are not a thing that the Nomads can learn, especially when it comes to publicity stunts.
So, the Nomads decided to take their stunts to a higher level. Instead of practising it within the borders of this small impoverished nation, the Nomads went continental. They dared Africa. It was to CAF Champions league they took their stunts.
I do not want to write a lot about CAF. The drubbing that the team suffered last weekend was coming for objective observers. Some of us actually expected worse.
However, it is how Nomads are spending money on trivia when there are a lot of things they can do with the money.
Do you know, by now, the Nomads still have no ground – even for training?
Do you know how much the Nomads better paid player gets?
Have you ever been to the Nomads club house lately?
Why then would such a team, lacking in strategy in both on and off the pitch, choose to go on an expensive trip to DR Congo?
Truths hates
Ndiwe mfiti adimin ulibe nzeru
Stupid adimin
Its better to stop like this page is full of shit
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walankhula zambiri koma chomwe ndatolapo ine ndichakuti iwe siwampila…kuti munthu udziwe chinthu umayenela kumayenda ndikumaphuzira..zomwe ukudziwa iwe ndikuonongaa mpila ndikunyoza mateam.dziwa ichi mumpila chilichonse chimatha kuchitika AS Vita ikhoza kudzaluza nthawi ina nditeam yakuno kumalawi.taonapo mateam akulu akulu akuluza ndi ana mwina iweyo usanazionepo mchifukwachake ukutelo.kodi tikangokhala mmalawi momwemuno osamayendako kukakumana ndi mateam ena ndiyekuti mpilawathu uzasintha???.YOU ARE THE BIG IDIOT
Admn mwana wa hule iwe mayako ndikupondera pano
Nonsense
Nosense, ur also stupid
U also stupid
mbuzi za ana,,u want mo comments aaa,
Akutibulabe neba ndipo sanathane nawe pa 21 akubweraso ingoyimika manja mmwamba
You stupid Monday coach, shut up your foul mouth. What would you say if wanderers had won in DRC? You should have made these utterances before the game. Get away with your unreasonable punditry.
Hey Baba! It’s not about “If wanderers had won”. Wanderers lost 4-0.Period.
Guyz sibwino kutha mau mnzako akaonekeredwa zovuta neba alibe vuto koma Fam ndiimene ili ndvuto frm BB fan
KO’d mu TNM imeneti Bullets,silver, moyale,KB ,red lions civil, sitinamenye utakanene iwe kut timadusa mwa ana phwala lako wamva
Chidziwiso kwa onse amene akuvutika ndi nyerere muzinyumba mwao chonde poperani makhwala otchedwa AS VITTA sangaaaaa
Timu yonse yofunika kubatizidwa,
Koma ndiyetu kudzisambatu dzingoli mwadziwa vuto
M’mamva kukoma mukalemba nkhani ya manoma? zachamba basi, za noma mwakamba kochuluka pano zigulitsani ndudu zanuzo mwamva!
U Thnk Wanderers Is A Problem, But Our Football Standards Are A Problem, With That Our Ignorant Fam President
Admin ndiwe mbuzi, galu n chitsiru
U 2 stupid person
When we heard that we’ll play against a team from malawi,everybody thought of Bullets because its a team we’ve known for a longtime. We intensified our preparations thinking that Bullets has changed the name to Beforward Wanderers,just imagine we even travelled to France not knowing that malawi will send an amateur team like this one,we just wasted our resources for nothing,these guys came here to learn football,we’ll not even travel with a full squard for a return match. “AS VITA Team manager”
kupusa kutukwana khani yake it
Stupid?????
Am stunned
Noma is not a problem by the way only that they face a stronger side than them… Hope they can do it in Malawi and turn things around but tinvanepo apa… Noma sikuti izawina moti nkupitilira iyayi zokhazo tikuletsa
It’s better to write objectively than weaving up stories otherwise is respectable to write not!
Shupit Admn Mwana Wa Hule.
TRUTH HURTS!! GO DEEPER ADMIN!!!
Ndimamva kuwawa heavy athu opusa amene amalemba ma artcle ao opusa ngat awa adzinyoza noma but why noma is it the first team to lose in caf aaaah tikatukwana tilakwanso
Kodi 2018 ngati inu anthu odana ndikuudzidwa chilungamo mulipobe?
Galu Iwe isiye timu yanga yokha nyaninso iweti…
When you want to post something you must think,you guys from M24 ambilinu ndinu mbuzi
What kind of reporting is this,?
Some call it hitting the nail on its head, others call it kuthetsa Kulubwalubwa & we call it ”Chilungamo chimamasula or Wise Reporting” kuti ngati pali wina wapsa mtima apse mtima zeni zeni
Walemba zimeneziyu ndi mbuzi.
truth always pains
Zaulendo uno by mwanache
You seem to have some kind of pathological hatred towards Wanderers FC . To say that the TNM championship was a fluke is a fallacy and gross ignorance of football matters on your part. I urge you to start following things before posting your nonsense here.
Noma failed to beat all the top 4 teams. that is true check with ur records
Chilungamo chimawawadi..! Yes, it was a fluke..! Zikomo
The author of this article is stupid as well… No any form of professionalism in u
Kunena stupid munthu amene wakuudza chilungamo ndiye Blind Loyalty ikunenedwayo..!