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Why hiring expatriate TD makes more sense
As you would expect in a country with immense football passion, debate has started in earnest on whether the next…
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Football tumour that is FAM affiliate
Allow me to get a surgical knife, slip into vintage white coat, face and hair cover and, like a surgeon,…
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Next FAM president
I am worried that, with less than six months to Football Association of Malawi (FAM) elections, domestic football has not…
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Army teams need full time footballers
Boxers Wilson Masamba and Osgood Kayuni are not the same hard punchers they are barely fighting on past reputation. The…
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Welcoming FAM into bus business
As a surviving bona fide passenger of UTM, Kwendajenda and Jakumusi buses, I have first-hand experience of the thrills and…
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Of half-baked sports reporters
I believe critics worth their salt are those with the humility to, in the first place, also take stinging jabs…
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Beware of mafia-like football officials
One of the biggest problems with Malawi sports, football in particular, is that anyone can get away with anything. Describing…
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Extend State of disaster to sports
President Peter Mutharika has inevitably declared that Malawi—ravaged by floods that have sliced and swallowed roads, chocked and drowned lives,…
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Sulom must not pat itself on the back
It is that season of football elections again. If you are a football journalist you realise suddenly news sources are…
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Sharing prize money is amateurish
Ask most domestic footballers about their ultimate ambition, and they will predictably tell you it is to play professional football…
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Cautiously happy for Kondie
If your cup of tea is football then Fomboni should ordinarily not be associated with the game; but probably some…
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Will the hypocrites listen because TK spoke?
South African veteran sports journalist, Thomas ‘TK’ Kwenaite, is an authority on the continent’s football with depth of experience spanning…
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Who owes footballers after retirement?
Asamoah Gyan, the $240 000-a-week Ghanaian football megastar, has thriving business investments in boxing promotion, music and transportation with a…
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Why Fischer is my player of season
Italy and Juventus talisman Andrea Pirlo is my football person. He has re-invented the deep-lying midfield role, bridging defence with…
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7 defeats, 4 wins, 4 draws: Still, Young must continue
Having desperately failed to manufacture another Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) final qualification fluke, the jury is out, not on…
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Make money from clubs, not national teams
Malawi National Council of Sports executive secretary George Jana, reacting during the week to the netball Queens’ show of shame…
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Managing Flames through media
So, FAM as usual, has—using us the media—rolled out yet another public sympathy-buying campaign by setting deadlines for themselves and…
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Let U-20 finish Afcon qualifiers
As expected, there is a good slice of the football fraternity that would like us to believe that the Flames,…
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We love a game we don’t understand
The ongoing 2015 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers have once again exposed Malawi as a dubious football nation that,…
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Qualities of a good coach
Sports coaches are funny. For example, they do not believe that there are good or bad coaches, but rather successful…
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