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Malawi football secrets Part I
My encounter with this up-and-coming football administrator a fortnight ago was uninspiring. For a usually an enthusiastic young man with…
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Piece of paper they call MoU
Last week, I caught the ‘pool is cool’ bug, hence I was not going to waste my last Thursday morning…
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Where Flames expatriate coaches go
Some 19 months have proved too long a spell in football for Zambia. Across the western borders, a lot has…
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Football needs cash-gate probe
In the aftermath of the Capital Hill cash-gate, I am disturbed by the selective and predictable uproar this Lilongwe looting…
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Lilongwe has supporters, Blantyre has fans
Those who earn a living through making sense out of a series of seemings of the mind, call it negative…
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What Mwawi, Chilemba, Kafwafwa have in common
Talking about Malawi netball poster girl Mwawi Kumwenda in the same breath with monster of the ring Isaac Chilemba and…
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It takes 10 years to produce Rooney
The downside of modern technology is that it offers most domestic fans unlimited access to the latest in football at…
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Mad man and bicycle
It is no fun watching a man mad on his bicycle for it can also make you mad. He cycles…
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Of Simplex, Swini, Owen
Some international football pundits feel Carlo Ancelotti’s faith in Diego Lopez as Real Madrid’s number one vindicates ex-manager Jose Mourinho’s…
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GS must be gentleman part II
In June I had a life-enriching experience for the first time, queuing up for hours on end, not for gasoline,…
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Be on top of things
Any win is sweet. Even sweeter when by accident of nationality, the only national team you can place allegiance on…
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Never forget players so easily
“Tamuoneni, akucheza ndi mzungu ngati zabwino. Akachoka apo apite kukalemba zomunyoza. [Look at him, he is chatting with the coach,…
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Not about talent, but readiness
So the unpleasant reality is that the domestic league’s undisputed top players Gabadinho Mhango and Lucky Malata have been certified…
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In whose interest does Malawi play football?
Sometimes you can get serious answers from seemingly silly questions like the one above. As far as I am concerned,…
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Sick nation, sick Flames
It is that time again when you do this and that, attend to more important matters of life but somehow,…
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Why hooliganism persists
Having fled from Kamuzu Stadium, I should have instantly poured out in ink my emotions at that ill-tempered TNM Super…
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When Queens merge with Flames
The curtain that went down on the 2013 Africa Netball Championship on Friday was summed up in Malawi Queens’ last gasp collapse…
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Loving Flames at owners’ risk
It is not love. The affair between Flames and their fans is what, in his platinum-selling novel The Road Less Travelled,…
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If I were FAM
When I questioned FAM on the rationale of opting to forgo this year’s Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup for the Cosafa…
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What is poor officiation?
Barely weeks into the new domestic football season, the ‘poor officiation’ jazz is getting to its crescendo. Nothing new with…
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