Friday 17 February 2012, 16:11
Our manager-for-hire and roving reporter Iffy Onuora continues his ramble round the football landscape – and it's a bit slippy... Hello there and welcome back from the cold – literally: as temperatures...
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Wednesday 16 November 2011, 12:10
Self-(deprecatingly) described "journeyman footballer" turned manager-for-hire Iffy Onuora on a peculiarly English cultural reaction... I think I speak for the majority when I say that it's...
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Wednesday 09 November 2011, 12:46
It seems that while I have been away the world of football has developed something of a retro Sunday morning feel to it. We’ve had crazy Hackney Marshes-style scorelines in the Premier League, a 15 year...
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Friday 30 September 2011, 16:28
Another week, another few hundred miles clocked up chronicling the best (and sometimes worst) the beautiful game has to offer. So it was off to ‘the Land of Our Fathers’ last week to watch Cardiff take...
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Wednesday 21 September 2011, 15:19
He's back! After a few months' sabbatical following his controversial sacking by Ethiopia , our regular columnist Iffy Onuora returns for your reading pleasure… Well, a belated good luck for the...
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Tuesday 05 April 2011, 14:40
I think you could probably say, with more than a hint of understatement, that I made a less than a triumphant return “home” to the land of my parents’ birth last weekend. A 4-0 defeat by Nigeria was chastening...
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Thursday 17 March 2011, 12:16
Greetings again dear reader(s?). At long last, this week Your Fearless Reporter has convened the national team for the Nations Cup qualifier in Nigeria at the end of March. At the risk of boring all of...
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Thursday 03 March 2011, 11:49
Ethiopia manager and self-confessed journeyman Iffy Onuora continues his exclusive blog Let's start with some good news: my old gaffer and best mate Peter Jackson is back in management at his spiritual...
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Monday 21 February 2011, 12:08
He's back – Ethiopia manager Iffy Onuora on a one-armed driver, a dog-legged fixture list and a short-sighted lack of friendlies... Hi there footy fans, greetings once again from warmer climes! From...
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Monday 31 January 2011, 11:58
Greetings once again from sunny Africa! Still quiet here except for a mooted friendly game early in March, and perhaps an earlier one if I hold my breath and hope for the best. I’ve been spending my time...
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Thursday 20 January 2011, 15:15
Well if last week’s piece was a sombre affair, detailing as it did the untimely demise of a player here killed in a car crash on his way back from a match, this week’s starts unfortunately in a similar...
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Tuesday 11 January 2011, 13:35
Well folks, belated Happy New Year to all from sunny 25 degrees, Addis Ababa, where we’ve just celebrated the Ethiopian Christmas, a full two weeks after Xmas in England and a week after New Year. But...
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Friday 10 December 2010, 13:57
Well blow me, if we haven't surprised everybody and found ourselves in the semi-finals of the CECAFA tournament out here in sweltering hot, thermometer nudging 32 degrees, mercury rising...well you...
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Wednesday 08 December 2010, 14:47
Well here in Dar es Salaam, where the temperature is a balmy 30 degrees, it's the annual Cecafa tournament - a 12 team showpiece for Africa's central and eastern nations to pit their wits against...
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Friday 26 November 2010, 15:17
A quiet week here on planet Anything Goes. It all started just fine when the BBC’s Rob Walker came out to do a piece on me for Football Focus . They'd combined it with filming a piece with the great...
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Friday 19 November 2010, 11:45
Last time out , our intrepid manager Iffy Onuora had landed in a surprisingly rainy Ethiopia hoping to get to grips with his new job as national team manager. It wasn't as easy as you might think....
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Thursday 18 November 2010, 13:16
Last year, self-confessed journeyman player-turned-coach Iffy Onuora started a FourFourTwo blog about life at Lincoln City... and was promptly sacked . After an aponising spell out of the game, he's...
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Friday 25 December 2009, 10:00
WARNING: The following article contains numerous and shameful examples of name-dropping... Just when you thought it was safe, in the words of Freddy Krueger, “Guess Who’s Back?!” Hasten to add this hasn...
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Friday 13 November 2009, 17:00
Knowing a thing or two about the comings and goings inherent in the profession, it was the Geordie Messiah Kevin Keegan who offered the following particularly astute observation about football management...
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Saturday 07 November 2009, 08:00
Another weekend of high-octane fare in League Two where no quarter was either asked or given. This week my travelog landed at Victoria Road, home to Dagenham and Redbridge (Both of them? - Ed.) . Thoroughly...
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Thursday 22 October 2009, 16:00
Another week, another victim: welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the fickle fate of football management. Mike Newell of Grimsby is the latest to fall in the Month Of The Long Knives, where nervous directors...
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Wednesday 14 October 2009, 14:00
Stop press! Ian McParland sacked by Notts County. After having his job placed “under review” a couple of weeks ago, the final straw for the board was a 2-2 home draw with Torquay leaving the team 5th in...
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Tuesday 06 October 2009, 08:00
OK, I’m REALLY bored now! With no game to go to this weekend, and rapidly losing control over the oh-so important remote control at chez Onuora, these are dark times indeed. With the glaring omission of...
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Wednesday 30 September 2009, 07:30
The story so far: Iffy Onuora, self-described "journeyman striker" turned assistant manager, was sacked by Lincoln City along with gaffer Peter "Jacko" Jackson. Underemployed and overly...
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Saturday 12 September 2009, 08:00
So barely seven days since the Night of the Long Knives at Darlington, a night that ultimately sealed mine and Peter Jackson’s fate at Lincoln City, the bitter aftermath is starting to rear its ugly head...
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Friday 04 September 2009, 09:00
After hanging above our heads for a fortnight, the Sword of Damocles has finally fallen. Allow me to (re-)introduce myself as the FORMER assistant manager of Lincoln City: along with manager Peter Jackson...
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Thursday 27 August 2009, 14:00
Will the real Lincoln City please stand up? That’s the question on our supporters' lips as we put them through another 90 minutes of purgatory last weekend. Decent on the opening day at home, rubbish...
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Thursday 20 August 2009, 10:00
What a difference a day makes! (well, two days actually). An off-colour performance on Saturday against a spirited Accrington side resulted in a disappointing 1-0 reverse. It was difficult to put a finger...
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Wednesday 12 August 2009, 17:00
Well that was a kick in the... teeth! Having matched Barnsley blow for heavyweight blow in a pulsating Carling Cup tie at Sincil Bank on Tuesday night, one momentary lapse was all it took for us to be...
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Monday 10 August 2009, 11:30
The first in a series of blogs from Iffy Onuora , lower-league journeyman turned coach... Well there’s a lesson in the realities of football, painfully learnt. You spend weeks helping to hone your team...
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