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Foreigners find their voice at Cosafa Cup
With a foaming glass of Castle Lager beer in one hand and Tanzania flag in the other, Martin Peter sits…
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So near, yet so far for Flames
The fundamental questions which FAM president Walter Nyamilandu failed to answer on whether there was a guarantee for funds to…
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Irony of Flames horror defending
Malawi’s undisputed greatest defenders-turned-coaches Young Chimodzi and Jack Chamangwana’s Flames regime is fast deteriorating into one rolled on the script…
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Three-horse race
For the first time in its weekly round ups, the Super League of Malawi (Sulom) secretariat declared boldly that the…
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Ups, downs of Flames
He was taunted and booed as if he were a serial town thief. It was too hard being lonely in…
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Super league 1st round stock
With the TNM Super League second round now in motion after a three-week break, SportsXtraanalyses team and individual player performances in…
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Grab a tip from 2014 world cup
The marvel of vanishing free-kick spray. The sophistication of goal-line technology. Tears, sweat and not stone throwing on and off…
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Flames’ away struggles
Constrasting views have been thrown into fray for Flames’ continued struggles in competitive away matches. In the past 11 years,…
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Africa’s fake World Cup camaraderie
It is a no brainer that Africa’s five representatives are, without any grain of doubt, barely crawling at the 2014…
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Africa’s familiar World Cup question
The identity of Africa’s 2014 Fifa World Cup torch bearers in Brazil is partly different from those of the 2010…
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Scoring more of Cosafa challenge
Why is it becoming a tall order for the country’s top-flight league’s strikers to score 20 or more goals in…
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Ung’onoung’ono’s DRC
The focus last week was on the tripartite elections and the mood was electric. On a chilly Wednesday morning, I…
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Sponsorship not answer to success
There are some special moments in sports when time appears to stand still, frozen in the beauty of the occasion,…
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Blantyre teams in deep slumber
Last season, the TNM Super League set high standards in terms of the quality of the game that was on…
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OF COACHES, MANAGERS
It is hard being a football coach in Malawi. You have to be a jack of all trades to survive,…
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How 2010 flames squad expired
Asour concortion of age-cheating and irregular junior national teams and clubs involvement in international competitions has left the Flames thread-bare;…
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Best of rest for super league
As per tradition, SportsXtra looks back at players it feels set alight the prolonged 2013/14 TNM Super League season, which officially ended…
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Lessons from Botswana
All things being equal, FAM should aim to learn from top established national football associations such as those of Nigeria,…
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Whither Malawi clubs?
Domestic football clubs are bleeding profusely. They are getting anaemic. FAM must step in and stamp its authority to re-organise…
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Can Flames play for nothing?
The 2008 Africa Cup of Nations will be remembered most for the sight of Crocodile Niles of Sudan making a…
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